Anime · Tokyo MX
The World's Strongest Rearguard
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
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TV DNA
How The World's Strongest Rearguard actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
The World's Strongest Rearguard reads strongest on Spectacle, World Building and Serialized.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
The story
What it's about
After a fatal accident, overworked office worker Arihito Atobe is reborn in the Labyrinth Country as a Seeker with the rare Rearguard class—an all-purpose support role that excels in attack, defense, and healing. Joined by a fierce demi-human mercenary and his former boss, Arihito dives into deadly dungeons and rises through the ranks. The adventure of the strongest support class begins!
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The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Fumihiro OzawaProducer
- Takahiro FujiiProducer
- Takayoshi IshiguroProducer
- 桑原和也Producer
- Taiki AkasakaProducer
Direction
- Yuuji YanaseDirector
Cinematography
- Tadao SuemitsuDirector of Photography
Music
- Hinako TsubakiyamaOriginal Music Composer
Where to watch
Streaming
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