The Voices Behind Clef, Presea, and Ferio
The three additions cover the characters from the otherworld Cephiro who steer the Magic Knights through their quest, and the casting skews heavyweight. Yuki Kaji, who voices Eren Yeager in Attack on Titan, plays Clef, the Guru of Cephiro: its highest-ranking mage, the figure who grants the knights their magic and guides them. He looks like a young child but is actually 745 years old.
Emiri Katō, whose credits include Kyubey in Puella Magi Madoka Magica, voices Presea, the Pharle. She forges the knights' weapons, work that burns through a serious amount of her mental energy each time.
Yoshitsugu Matsuoka, Kirito in Sword Art Online, plays Ferio, the mysterious swordsman the girls run into in the Forest of Silence. He wields a blade roughly his own height and knows his way around fighting monsters.
In cast comments published with the announcement, Kaji recalled the manga being huge with the girls in his class back in elementary school, while adolescent embarrassment kept him from picking it up. He finally dug in for this role, came away a convert, and said he wants to pass the series on to a new generation. Katō described Presea as the warm big-sister figure she grew up loving, and said she rewatched the anime series to prepare for her audition. Matsuoka's reaction to getting the audition was blunt shock ("No way, Rayearth!?"), and he signed off by declaring himself Team Presea.
What the New Trailer and Key Visual Show
The main trailer, hosted on TMS Entertainment's official anime YouTube channel, is built around the knights' action scenes in the otherworld and pins down the premiere: Wednesday, October 7, 2026, at 11:45 p.m. in IMAnimation W, TV Asahi's late-night anime block.
The second key visual puts Hikaru Shidou, Umi Ryuuzaki, and Fuu Hououji front and center as they face the harsh fate waiting for them in another world, with the Mashin (the towering deities Rayearth, Selece, and Windam) standing behind them. According to Japanese entertainment outlet Oricon News, the new series is the first Rayearth animation in 29 years, counting from the OVA released in 1997.
A 30th-Anniversary Revival
CLAMP's original manga ran from 1993 to 1995 in Nakayoshi, Kodansha's long-running shojo magazine, and the first TV anime aired from 1994 to 1995. Naomi Tamura's opening theme "Yuzurenai Negai" sold over one million copies. The story follows three second-year middle schoolers, Hikaru, Umi, and Fuu, who are pulled from a Tokyo Tower field trip into the otherworld of Cephiro by Princess Emeraude, then set out to rescue the captive princess as the fabled Magic Knights.
The remake was announced in July 2024 to mark the 1994 anime's 30th anniversary, and Oricon notes the reaction online at the time ran toward the reverent, with fans calling the series a personal bible and asking for the original songs and voice cast back.
The new knights are already in place: Ayane Sakura voices Hikaru, Rumi Ōkubo voices Umi, and Rie Takahashi voices Fuu. Per the official site's staff listing, E&H production handles animation, with TMS Entertainment, Kodansha, and TV Asahi producing. Director 三浦唯 (likely Yui Miura) leads the project, and the score comes from a three-composer team that includes Yuki Kajiura.
Looking Ahead
The series premieres October 7, 2026 on TV Asahi. No international streaming partner has been announced for the new series yet, so where the rest of the world watches it is still an open question. In the meantime, the 1994 anime is easy to revisit: it landed on Netflix in January 2026 and also streams on Crunchyroll.