Visitors to this weekend's 75th Annual Komaba Festival — the University of Tokyo's cultural festival — were in for a magical surprise! Voice actor Hime Sawada appeared at the event as a guest, and she revealed more about her upcoming role in Magical Girl Raising Project Restart during the event. As previously announced, Sawada will voice new character Nokko-chan. The actor describes the maid-themed magical girl as cute, hardworking and reliable. In addition to discussing her experiences working on the upcoming series, Sawada also revealed the first full look at her character: Nokko-chan Character Art Character art Hime Sawada with standee RELATED: Magical Girl Raising Project Restart Anime Releases New Trailer, Teaser Visual Key visual RELATED: Magical Girl Raising Project Restart Anime Teaser Trailer Announces 2026 Premiere Hiroyuki Hashimoto ( TOUGEN ANKI assistant director) directs the Magical Girl Raising Project Restart anime at studio SynergySP, with series composition by Takao Yoshioka and character designs by Masako Ito. Hashimoto directed and Takao Yoshioka wrote for the first anime series at studio Lerche, where Ito served as SD character designer. Crunchyroll currently streams the original Magical Girl Raising Project anime and describes the story: Magical Girl Raising Project is a popular social game that has an ability to grant players a 1 in 10,000 chance to become a real life Magical Girl with unique magical abilities to help people. However, at some point, Fav, the magical administrator fairy, decides to cut the population of Magical Girls in half. The game quickly changes into a twisted, wicked battlefield as the 16 magical girls get dragged into a battle for survival against each other. Source: Comic Natalie
