Magical Sempai
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. Media. Manga. "Magical Sempai", written and illustrated by Azu, was serialized in Kodansha's "Weekly Young Magazine" from February 29, 2016 to February 15, 2021. Kodansha collected its chapters in eight individual "tankōbon" 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 by Shotan was launched in Ichijinsha's "Manga 4-Koma Palette" on November 22, 2019. 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 . Crunchyroll streamed the series. On November 16, 2019, Crunchyroll announced that the series would receive an English dub.