Magical Sempai
Magical Sempai is a Japanese manga series by Azu. It was serialized in Kodansha's manga magazine Weekly Young Magazine from February 2016 to February 2021 and has been collected into eight volumes. Kodansha USA published the series digitally in North America. An anime television series adaptation by Liden Films aired from July to September 2019.
Plot
An unmotivated first-year high school boy finds a girl practicing a magic trick. The girl is Sempai, the only remaining member of the Magic Club. She has stage fright whenever she performs in front of an audience, which often results in her screwing up. She recruits the boy to be her assistant, despite his objections.Characters
;Assistant;Sister
;Saki
;Masashi
;Madara
Media
Manga
Written and illustrated by Azu, Magical Sempai was serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Young Magazine from February 29, 2016, to February 15, 2021. Kodansha collected its chapters in eight individual volumes, which were released from August 5, 2016, to March 5, 2021.Kodansha USA published the series digitally in North America from September 12, 2017, to August 31, 2021.
A spinoff manga series titled Isekai Senpai: Tejina Senpai wa Kono Sekai de mo Ponkotsu na Yō Desu by Shotan was launched in Ichijinsha's Manga 4-Koma Palette on November 22, 2019.
Volumes
Anime
An anime television series adaptation was announced in the 49th issue of Weekly Young Magazine on November 5, 2018. The series was produced by Liden Films and directed by Fumiaki Usui. Rintarou Ikeda handled the series composition, Eriko Itō designed the characters, and Takeshi Hama composed the music.It aired from July 2 to September 17, 2019, on Tokyo MX, MBS, and BS-NTV. The series consists of 12 fifteen-minute episodes. i☆Ris performed the opening theme "FANTASTIC ILLUSION", while Minori Suzuki performed the ending theme "Dame wa Dame". Crunchyroll streamed the series.
On November 16, 2019, Crunchyroll announced that the series would receive an English dub.