The official website for the television anime of Ken Akamatsu's UQ Holder! Magister Negi Magi! 2 manga began streaming the show's teaser video on Friday. The video introduces the show's cast.

The site also revealed the show's theme song artists, key visual, more cast, and broadcast channels on Friday.

The new cast members include:

Sayaka Harada as Shinobu Yūki

Akari Kitō as Mizore Yukihiro

The anime will premiere in October and will air on Tokyo MX, tvk, Sun TV, KBS Kyoto, and BS11. Yuka Takakura, Yūki Hirose, Ai Kayano, Yui Ogura, Sayaka Harada, and Akari Kitō will perform the theme song "Happy ☆ Material."

The previously announced main cast includes:

Yuka Takakura as Touta Konoe

Yuki Matsuoka as Yukihime

Yūki Hirose as Kurōmaru Tokisaka

Rina Satou as Negi Springfield

Ai Kayano as Kirie Sakurame

Yui Ogura as Karin

Yuri Shiratori as Sayo Aisaka

Natsuko Kuwatani as Yue Ayase

Akemi Kanda as Asuna Kagurazaka

Akeno Watanabe as Chachamaru Karakuri

Yui Horie as Makie Sasaki

Miho Sakuma as Mana Tatsumiya

Mamiko Noto as Nodoka Miyazaki

Junko Minagawa as Ayaka Yukihiro

Akira Ishida as Fate Averruncus

The manga is getting a separate upcoming original anime DVD (OAD). The OAD will be bundled with the manga's 14th volume on September 8. The OAD will show when Touta and 16-year-old Evangeline met, as well as an original episode about "naked friendship," starring Kurōmaru, Karin, and Kirie at the Senkyōkan inn's open-air bath.

UQ Holder! is set in the world of Akamatsu's Negima! Magister Negi Magi manga, and takes place years after the earlier manga. The story centers on a boy named Touta who dreams of leaving his small town and moving to the city. However, he must first defeat his teacher, the immortal Evangeline.

Youhei Suzuki (Urara Meirocho, Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? Sword Oratoria) is directing the anime at J.C. Staff. Akamatsu himself is in charge of the series scripts alongside Shogo Yasukawa (Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma, Alderamin on the Sky). Masahiro Fujii (Hayate the Combat Butler!!, The Familiar of Zero) is designing the characters, and Egg Firm is producing the series.