{"id":118240,"date":"2025-04-06T17:48:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T00:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/?p=118240"},"modified":"2025-04-06T17:48:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T00:48:17","slug":"yoshiki-nakajima-joins-cast-of-secrets-of-the-silent-witch-tv-anime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2025\/04\/06\/yoshiki-nakajima-joins-cast-of-secrets-of-the-silent-witch-tv-anime\/","title":{"rendered":"Yoshiki Nakajima Joins Cast of Secrets of the Silent Witch TV Anime"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Voice actor <\/span><b>Yoshiki Nakajima<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> has been announced to be <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2025\/03\/29\/secrets-of-the-silent-witch-tv-anime-adds-kanna-nakamura-as-lana-colette\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">joining the main voice cast<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of the upcoming <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2025\/03\/22\/secrets-of-the-silent-witch-trailer-reveals-july-premiere\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Secrets of the Silent Witch<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> TV anime series. The anime will <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2025\/01\/03\/secrets-of-the-silent-witchs-teaser-trailer-previews-spellbinding-music-reveals-2025-premiere\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">premiere in Japan<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in July 2025.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">Nakajima has been cast as Cyril Ashley, who is the adopted son of a Marquess and the Serendia Academy student council&#8217;s vice president.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_118243\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-118243\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"118243\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2025\/04\/06\/yoshiki-nakajima-joins-cast-of-secrets-of-the-silent-witch-tv-anime\/secrets-of-the-silent-witch-cyril-ashley-character-visual\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/secrets-of-the-silent-witch-cyril-ashley-character-visual.jpg?fit=934%2C1320&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"934,1320\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"secrets of the silent witch cyril ashley character visual\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;\u00a9 2024\u202f\u4f9d\u7a7a\u307e\u3064\u308a\u30fb\u85e4\u5b9f\u306a\u3093\u306a\/KADOKAWA\/\u30bb\u30ec\u30f3\u30c7\u30a3\u30a2\u5b66\u5712\u5e83\u5831\u90e8 &lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/secrets-of-the-silent-witch-cyril-ashley-character-visual.jpg?fit=212%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/secrets-of-the-silent-witch-cyril-ashley-character-visual.jpg?fit=696%2C983&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-118243\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/secrets-of-the-silent-witch-cyril-ashley-character-visual.jpg?resize=350%2C495&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"secrets of the silent witch cyril ashley character visual\" width=\"350\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/secrets-of-the-silent-witch-cyril-ashley-character-visual.jpg?resize=212%2C300&amp;ssl=1 212w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/secrets-of-the-silent-witch-cyril-ashley-character-visual.jpg?resize=725%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 725w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/secrets-of-the-silent-witch-cyril-ashley-character-visual.jpg?resize=768%2C1085&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/secrets-of-the-silent-witch-cyril-ashley-character-visual.jpg?resize=696%2C984&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/secrets-of-the-silent-witch-cyril-ashley-character-visual.jpg?resize=297%2C420&amp;ssl=1 297w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/secrets-of-the-silent-witch-cyril-ashley-character-visual.jpg?w=934&amp;ssl=1 934w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-118243\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">\u00a9 2024\u202f\u4f9d\u7a7a\u307e\u3064\u308a\u30fb\u85e4\u5b9f\u306a\u3093\u306a\/KADOKAWA\/\u30bb\u30ec\u30f3\u30c7\u30a3\u30a2\u5b66\u5712\u5e83\u5831\u90e8<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u30b7\u30ea\u30eb\u30fb\u30a2\u30b7\u30e5\u30ea\u30fc\uff08CV. #\u4e2d\u5cf6\u30e8\u30b7\u30ad\uff09\u30dc\u30a4\u30b9\u52d5\u753b\uff5cTV\u30a2\u30cb\u30e1\u300e\u30b5\u30a4\u30ec\u30f3\u30c8\u30fb\u30a6\u30a3\u30c3\u30c1 \u6c88\u9ed9\u306e\u9b54\u5973\u306e\u96a0\u3057\u3054\u3068\u300f2025\u5e747\u6708\u653e\u9001 #\u30a2\u30cb\u30e1 #2025\u5e74 #\u30b5\u30a4\u30ec\u30f3\u30c8\u30a6\u30a3\u30c3\u30c1\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UAdNUr4nVR0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">He joins a main voice cast that includes:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\"><b>\u2022 Saya Aizawa<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as Monica Everett<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\"><b>\u2022 Hitomi Nabatame<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as Nero<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\"><b>\u2022 Junichi Suwabe<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as Louis Miller<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\"><b>\u2022 Shogo Sakata <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">as Felix Arc Ridill<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\"><b>\u2022 Atsumi Tanezaki<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as Isabelle Norton<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\"><b>\u2022 Kanna Nakamura<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as Lana Colette\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><b>Takaomi Kanasaki<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">KonoSuba <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">director until <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Legend of Crimson<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">) is serving as the anime\u2019s chief director, screenwriter, and scriptwriter, with <\/span><b>Yasuo Iwamoto<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Princess Connect Re:Dive<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Season 2) as director and<\/span><b> Cona Nitanda<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pok\u00e9mon <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Anime \u201cLucky na Safari de Onigokko!?\u201d) as character designer. <\/span><b>Studio Gokumi <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">is in charge of the animation production.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Other staff include <\/span><b>Yoshinori Iwanaga <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Banished from the Hero\u2019s Party<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> seasons 1-2) as monster and prop designer, <\/span><b>Eri Yamanashi<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tying the Knot With an Amagami Sister<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">) and <\/span><b>Yukiko Maruyama<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">My Hero Academia<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> seasons 1-7) as art directors, <\/span><b>Kana Imagaki <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Spy x Family<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> seasons 1-2) as 3D CG director, and <\/span><b>Naoki Eto<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Season 2, film, and OVA) as director of photography.<\/span><b> Cygames<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and <\/span><b>Rina Tayama<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Vampire Dormitory<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">) are credited as music composers for the series.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The anime adaptation is based on the fantasy light novels written by <\/span><b>Matsuri Isora<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and illustrated by <\/span><b>Nanna Fujimi<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. It was first published by Kadokawa\u2019s former Fujimi Shobo imprint on June 10, 2021 and has released nine main volumes as of February 2025. The story was first published as a Shosetsuka ni Naro web novel from February 20, 2020 to October 3, 2020.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A manga adaptation of the main light novel series by <\/span><b>Tobi Tana <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">was launched in July 2021. A prequel light novel series and manga were also released.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_108707\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-108707\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"108707\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2025\/01\/03\/secrets-of-the-silent-witchs-teaser-trailer-previews-spellbinding-music-reveals-2025-premiere\/secrets-of-the-silent-witch-teaser-visual\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Secrets-of-the-Silent-Witch-teaser-visual.jpg?fit=1200%2C1697&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1200,1697\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Secrets of the Silent Witch teaser visual\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Secrets-of-the-Silent-Witch-teaser-visual.jpg?fit=212%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Secrets-of-the-Silent-Witch-teaser-visual.jpg?fit=696%2C984&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-108707\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Secrets-of-the-Silent-Witch-teaser-visual.jpg?resize=350%2C495&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Secrets of the Silent Witch teaser visual\" width=\"350\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Secrets-of-the-Silent-Witch-teaser-visual.jpg?resize=212%2C300&amp;ssl=1 212w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Secrets-of-the-Silent-Witch-teaser-visual.jpg?resize=724%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 724w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Secrets-of-the-Silent-Witch-teaser-visual.jpg?resize=768%2C1086&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Secrets-of-the-Silent-Witch-teaser-visual.jpg?resize=1086%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1086w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Secrets-of-the-Silent-Witch-teaser-visual.jpg?resize=696%2C984&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Secrets-of-the-Silent-Witch-teaser-visual.jpg?resize=1068%2C1510&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Secrets-of-the-Silent-Witch-teaser-visual.jpg?resize=297%2C420&amp;ssl=1 297w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Secrets-of-the-Silent-Witch-teaser-visual.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-108707\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">\u00a9 2024\u202f\u4f9d\u7a7a\u307e\u3064\u308a\u30fb\u85e4\u5b9f\u306a\u3093\u306a\/KADOKAWA\/\u30bb\u30ec\u30f3\u30c7\u30a3\u30a2\u5b66\u5712\u5e83\u5831\u90e8<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yen Press releases the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Secrets of the Silent Witch<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> light novels and manga in English. It describes the main synopsis as:\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Monica Everett, the Silent Witch, is the only mage in the world who can use unchanted magecraft, a true hero who singlehandedly defeated a legendary black dragon. However, this young genius is actually\u2026super-duper shy! That\u2019s right: She learned to cast spells silently just to avoid speaking in public, and despite her power, she has zero self-confidence. Now Monica has been tasked with secretly guarding the second prince. Can she keep it together as she faces both the evil forces targeting the prince and the terrors of social interaction?<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SilentWitch_pr\/status\/1908444506602733871\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Secrets of the Silent Witch Official Twitter<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/moca-news.net\/artdisp.php?artid=202504051800ac_\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">MoCa News<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voice actor Yoshiki Nakajima has been announced to be joining the main voice cast of the upcoming Secrets of the Silent Witch TV anime series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":118248,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[14,1543,10554,2511,2185],"class_list":["post-118240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anime","tag-anime","tag-kadokawa","tag-secrets-of-the-silent-witch","tag-studio-gokumi","tag-yen-press"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/secrets-of-the-silent-witch-cyril-ashley-character-visual-1-e1743986847431.jpg?fit=930%2C528&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8n4QV-uL6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118240"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118240"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118247,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118240\/revisions\/118247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}