The anime is scheduled to premiere on April 13 at 25:30 (effectively April 14 at 1:30 a.m.) on Tokyo MX and BS11, followed by later broadcasts on MBS and AT-X.

Joining the cast are Lynn as Rionne Strail Bayreuth and Yūki Hoshi as Kagerou.

The main cast includes:

• Kenshō Ono as Shin
• Asami Seto as Schnee Raizar
• Kaede Hondo as Tiera Lucent
• Mika Okasaki as Yuzuha
• Shunya Hiruma as Wilhelm Avis
• Akiho Suzumoto as Millie
• Kaori Ishihara as Rashia Luzel

Tamaki Nakatsu (Eyeshield 21: The Phantom Golden Bowl film) directs the anime at Yokohama Animation Lab and Cloud Hearts. Hiroki Uchida (Gamers!, The Strongest Sage With the Weakest Crest) handles the series scripts, while Itsuki Takemoto (animation director for Kan Colle, Naruto Shippūden) designs the characters. Tatsuhiko Saiki, Yūya Mori, Misaki Tsuchida, and Tsugumi Tanaka compose the music. Mika Okasaki performs the anime’s ending theme song “Kanataboshi.”

One Peace Books releases the novels’ manga adaptation digitally and physically, with the first volume described as follows:

THE NEW GATE ― an online game transformed into a life-and-death struggle for its players. Thanks to the valiant efforts of Shin, the most powerful of them all, an end to the game and freedom for everyone seemed within reach. But just moments after Shin defeats the game’s final boss, he finds himself bathed in an unknown light and transported some 500 years into the future of the in-game world. Thrown from a simple game gone wrong into a strange new land, one young swordsman of unrivalled strength is about to embark on a legendary journey!

Kazanami began serializing the original story on the “Shōsetsuka ni Narō” (Let’s Become Novelists) website in 2013. AlphaPolis began publishing the story in physical book volumes in December 2013, with art by Makai no Jūnin. In August 2016, Kazanami removed the story from Shōsetsuka ni Narō, and AlphaPolis made the story available on its website.