Alone that is merely a nod to the 2018 OVA The Miraculous Unknown Psychic launched in 2018 the place Reigen narrates a recap of season 1, exaggerating his personal significance all through the season whereas making claims that he has psychic powers of his personal (which he doesn’t, he’s a fraud).
Nevertheless, ever because the official X account for the anime began a rely up to 100 on Might 12, followers have been buzzing about the opportunity of Reigen: The Man With Max 131 Non secular Energy, Reigen’s single quantity spinoff sequence launched in 2018, to get an OVA adaptation.
Together with the important thing visible reveal, it was additionally introduced that there can be a dwell occasion held on July 12, the precise anniversary date for the sequence, at Fukagawa Mirai Corridor in Saitama Prefecture. The reunion occasion options two performances with the unique lead voice forged, one within the afternoon and one within the night. Notably, tickets are lottery-based, and no cameras are allowed. One can’t assist however surprise if the occasion may double because the stage for one thing larger.
However the rely up doesn’t look like constructing towards the occasion date. Particularly after a consumer on X did the maths and located that the rely up would finish on August 10, which is Reigen’s in-universe birthday.
This isn’t the primary time the account has pulled this transfer, both. In 2021, an analogous rely as much as 100 ended with a teaser trailer for season 3 which is why many followers aren’t penning this off as a coincidence.
Equally suspicious, Reigen’s English dub voice actor, Chris Niosi, posted a video on his TikTok account reminding followers of the spinoff sequence in April. Niosi even teasingly talked about that the sequence being quick sufficient to be one quantity makes it a “good size to adapt into an OVA or a film maybe if there have been to ever be an animated model.”
For now, that is all hypothesis. Whether or not the rely up results in a Reigen OVA announcement or one thing else completely, all followers can do is wait and watch the numbers tick up, one quantity at a time.
