{"id":465302,"date":"2026-06-07T11:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T11:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/465302\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T11:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T11:23:08","slug":"the-villager-of-level-999-animes-main-promo-video-unveils-more-staff-members-ending-song-july-1-debut-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/465302\/","title":{"rendered":"The Villager of Level 999 Anime&#8217;s Main Promo Video Unveils More Staff Members, Ending Song, July 1 Debut &#8211; News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The staff of the television <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2025-08-20\/the-villager-of-level-999-fantasy-novels-get-anime-in-2026\/.227885\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">anime<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=287076\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Koneko Hoshitsuki<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/anime.php?id=37557\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Villager of Level 999<\/a> (Level 999 no Murabito) light novel series revealed during its advance screening on Sunday the anime&#8217;s main promotional video, main visual, additional staff members, and July 1 debut. The video reveals the ending theme song performed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=298270\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yukimura.<\/a> titled &#8220;HP.&#8221; The video also previews the previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2026-03-28\/the-villager-of-level-999-anime-reveals-opening-song-artists\/.235865\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> opening theme song &#8220;Not a Hero&#8221; by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=289762\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nakuru Aitsuki<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=289761\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Itsuki Natsume<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"426\" height=\"600\" alt=\"999.png\" border=\"1\" src=\"\/thumbnails\/max600x600\/cms\/news.9\/238241\/999.png.jpg\" class=\"lazyload\"\/>Image courtesy of Gree<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9\u661f\u6708\u5b50\u732b\u30fb\u3075\u30fc\u307f\/KADOKAWA\/\u300cLV999\u306e\u6751\u4eba\u300d\u88fd\u4f5c\u59d4\u54e1\u4f1a<\/p>\n<p>The newly announced staff members include:\n<\/p>\n<p>The anime&#8217;s staff also revealed that the series&#8217; Blu-ray Box that will ship on October 28 will include a novel written by Hoshitsuki.  <\/p>\n<p>The anime will debut on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/company.php?id=262\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TV Tokyo<\/a> on July 1 at 24:00 JST (effectively July 2 at 12:00 a.m. JST), then on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/company.php?id=1682\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BS Fuji<\/a> on July 2 at 24:30 JST (effectively July 3 at 12:30 a.m. JST). The anime will also stream exclusively on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/company.php?id=23437\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ABEMA<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/company.php?id=23418\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DMM TV<\/a> streaming services in Japan.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"424\" alt=\"village\" border=\"1\" src=\"\/thumbnails\/max300x600\/cms\/news.9\/234334\/village.jpg\" class=\"lazyload\"\/>Image courtesy of GREE<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9\u661f\u6708\u5b50\u732b\u30fb\u3075\u30fc\u307f\/KADOKAWA\/\u300cLV999\u306e\u6751\u4eba\u300d\u88fd\u4f5c\u59d4\u54e1\u4f1a<\/p>\n<p>The anime stars:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=102376\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yoshinobu Kasai<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/anime.php?id=24351\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">180-By\u014d de Kimi no Mimi o Shiawase ni Dekiru ka?<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/anime.php?id=26073\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aru Asa Dummy Head Mike ni Natteita Ore-kun no Jinsei<\/a>) is directing the anime at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/company.php?id=11211\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brains Base<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=4565\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shinz\u014d Fujita<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/anime.php?id=15853\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The World Is Still Beautiful<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/anime.php?id=23600\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">To Your Eternity<\/a>) is in charge of series composition. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=54187\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kentar\u014d Matsumoto<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/anime.php?id=15705\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">D-Frag!<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/anime.php?id=21266\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Grimms Notes the Animation<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/anime.php?id=22256\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">In\/Spectre<\/a>) is designing the characters. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=154521\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hiroshi Nakamura<\/a> is composing the music.<\/p>\n<p>The story is set in a world of swords and sorcery called Earthqualia, where everyone is born with a designated &#8220;class&#8221; or role. The story centers on Koji Kagami, born into the weakest &#8220;villager&#8221; class, but is level 999 despite that. Koji has a chance meeting with Alice, the daughter of the demon lord, and together, they seek to find a way for humans and demons to co-exist.<\/p>\n<p>Hoshitsuki <a href=\"https:\/\/ncode.syosetu.com\/n7612ct\/?p=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">serialized<\/a> the original story on the Sh\u014dsetsuka ni Nar\u014d website from July to December 2018, along with a side story in 2019. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/company.php?id=15420\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kadokawa<\/a> published the first print volume of the story with illustrations by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=213371\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fuumi<\/a> in May 2016. The eighth and final novel volume shipped in January 2019.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=287080\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kenichi Iwamoto<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/natalie.mu\/comic\/news\/234215\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">launched<\/a> a manga adaptation of the novels in Kadokawa&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/manga.php?id=12603\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Comp Ace<\/a> magazine in May 2017. Kadokawa will publish the manga&#8217;s 21st compiled book volume on July 23.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Press release<\/p>\n<p>Disclosure: Kadokawa World Entertainment (KWE), a wholly owned subsidiary of Kadokawa Corporation, is the majority owner of Anime News Network, LLC. One or more of the companies mentioned in this article are part of the Kadokawa Group of Companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The staff of the television anime of Koneko Hoshitsuki&#8216;s The Villager of Level 999 (Level 999 no Murabito)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-465302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}