# New Saga (2025)

> A dying magic swordsman who defeated the Demon King is sent back four years to his destroyed hometown to save his lost loved ones.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/133893

## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 12
- Episode runtime: 24 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: animation, action, fantasy
- Network: ABC TV
- Cast: Yuma Uchida, Hiro Shimono, Fairouz Ai, Asami Seto, Minami Takahashi, Hiroki Yasumoto, Kaori Maeda, Rie Hikisaka
- TMDB rating: 6.5/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt33050376/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: brisk
- Intensity: moderate
- Complexity: accessible
- Violence: moderate
- Tone: earnest, emotionally charged, urgent, bittersweet, hopeful

## Synopsis

New Saga (2025) is a Japanese animated isekai series created for ABC TV, based on a light novel and adapted with animation studios including Studio Clutch. The protagonist is the magic swordsman Kyle, voiced by Yuma Uchida, and his companions include Seran, voiced by Hiro Shimono, and Lize, voiced by Fairouz Ai. After a brutal war, Kyle has defeated the Demon King but lies dying, and a crimson crystal throws him four years into the past to his once-destroyed hometown. There he finds the people he lost still alive, and armed with knowledge of the coming tragedy he sets out to prevent it and rewrite fate. The engine of each episode is the tension between what he remembers and what he can still change, with sword fights and magic battles punctuating the rescue effort. Told as a single twelve-episode season with a continuing story, the series mixes urgent action with grief and hope in a fantasy world. Its tone is earnest and emotionally charged, with a bittersweet pull toward the cost of his earlier victory. Fans of Re:Zero and Dark will find resonance in its time-rewind premise and its hunger to undo a tragedy that has already happened.

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