The Fake Alchemist Anime Teaser Reveals Cast and Staff
Kadokawa has now attached a full production team to a manga it says passed 1 million copies, but has not yet told anyone when the adaptation airs.
Key Facts
- Kadokawa released the first teaser trailer for The Fake Alchemist anime on September 25, 2026.
- Yōhei Matsuoka voices Paracelsus and Miyari Nemoto voices Nora in The Fake Alchemist.
- Passione animates The Fake Alchemist, with Takeo Takahashi as chief director and Hijiri Sanpei as director.
- The Fake Alchemist manga by Jiro Sugiura and Umemaru launched on Kadokawa's KadoComi in June 2023 and remains ongoing.
- Kadokawa published the fifth compiled volume of The Fake Alchemist on February 20, and Yen Press releases the English print edition.
Reporting from 3 sources: Anime News Network, Anime Corner, OtakuKart Anime.
Kadokawa released the first teaser trailer for The Fake Alchemist television anime on September 25, 2026. The teaser confirms Yōhei Matsuoka as Paracelsus and Miyari Nemoto as Nora. Takeo Takahashi is chief director and Hijiri Sanpei directs. Kenta Ihara handles series composition, Yuka Takashina designs characters, and Luke Standridge composes the music. Passione animates. The story adapts the manga by writer Jiro Sugiura and artist Umemaru, which launched on Kadokawa's KadoComi site in June 2023 and is ongoing. Kadokawa published the fifth compiled volume on February 20. Yen Press publishes the English edition in print. The teaser centers on the first meeting between Paracelsus and Nora in the city-state of Orichalconia, a place where alchemy and magic are part of daily life. An earlier announcement came in June 2026. No premiere date or streaming acquisition has been announced.
Passione is the studio behind the adaptation. Takeo Takahashi's credit as chief director sits above Hijiri Sanpei's directing credit, a two-tier arrangement. Sanpei worked on Yuri Is My Job! and both directors are credited on Spice & Wolf: merchant meets the wise wolf.
The teaser shows Paracelsus and Nora, the shaman slave-girl whose contract with him sets the story moving. The plot also involves Coco, an elf who has lost all four limbs and her five senses, and a conflict that grows from a small workshop into a fight involving alchemy, sorcery, space, and the gods.
The manga started as a webcomic on Sugiura's Pixiv account before KadoComi and Nico Nico Seiga serialized the commercial version from June 2023. It is ongoing, and Yen Press publishes the print edition. The June 2026 announcement included a commemorative trailer tracking Nora's design from Sugiura's sketches to Umemaru's manga art to the anime. The premiere date and any Western streaming pickup remain unannounced.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 3 cited sources below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.