The Voices of Eren, Kyubey, and Kirito Head to Cephiro
The three new names, reported by Japanese entertainment news site Dengeki Online, cover some of Cephiro's most important supporting characters. Yuki Kaji (梶裕貴), the longtime voice of Eren Yeager in Attack on Titan, plays Clef, Cephiro's highest-ranking mage. Clef is the guide figure who grants the Magic Knights their spells, and while he looks like a small child, he is actually 745 years old.
Emiri Katō (加藤英美里), whom international fans will recognize as Kyubey in Puella Magi Madoka Magica, voices Presea, the master artisan who forges the Magic Knights' weapons. Creating each weapon costs her a serious amount of mental energy.
Yoshitsugu Matsuoka (松岡禎丞), the voice of Kirito in Sword Art Online and Inosuke Hashibira in Demon Slayer, rounds out the trio as Ferio, a mysterious swordsman the heroines meet in the Forest of Silence. He wields a blade as tall as he is and knows exactly how to fight Cephiro's monsters.
All Three Actors Have History With the Series
Each actor shared a comment with the announcement, and all three comments read like fan letters. Kaji remembered Rayearth as the series every girl in his elementary school class was obsessed with, and admitted that adolescent embarrassment kept him from reading or watching it at the time. Catching up on the series for this role, he described it as "a bible, and an origin point," praised CLAMP's worldbuilding, and said he wants to help hand the series to a new generation.
Katō said she still can't quite believe she gets to play Presea, a character she loved while following the series and playing the games as a kid. She called Presea the warm big-sister figure who watches over Hikaru, Umi, and Fū, and she rewatched the original anime before her audition to get closer to the character.
Matsuoka's reaction to receiving the audition offer was "No way!? Rayearth!?" He closed his comment by declaring that, personally, he is Team Presea.
The Second Key Visual and Main Trailer
The new key visual runs under the tagline "Girls, save the world." It shows Hikaru Shidō, Umi Ryūzaki, and Fū Hōōji bracing against the harsh fate waiting for them in the otherworld, with the series' three giant guardian deities (the mashin Rayearth, Selece, and Windam) towering behind them. The main trailer on TMS's official anime YouTube channel puts the focus on the Magic Knights' action scenes in Cephiro.
The setup: three Tokyo schoolgirls are suddenly summoned from a school field trip at Tokyo Tower into the otherworld Cephiro. There they learn that Princess Emeraude, whose prayers kept the world at peace, has been taken captive, and that saving Cephiro means becoming the legendary Magic Knights. CLAMP's original manga ran in Kodansha's shojo magazine Nakayoshi, and the first TV anime adaptation aired back in 1994.
The heroine trio is voiced by Ayane Sakura as Hikaru, Rumi Ōkubo as Umi, and Rie Takahashi as Fū, with Saori Hayami as Princess Emeraude, among the previously announced cast. Behind the scenes, Yui Miura directs in a first series-director credit, with series composition by Shigeru Murakoshi and a music team that includes Yuki Kajiura. Animation production is at E&H production, with Sunghoo Park credited as creative producer.
Looking Ahead
Magic Knight Rayearth premieres Wednesday, October 7, 2026, at 11:45 p.m. JST in the "IMAnimation W" block on TV Asahi's national network, excluding some regions. No international streaming partner has been announced yet; the Japanese announcement does not name one, so that question remains open heading into the fall season.