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Ani-One Asia Streams Ranking of Kings Anime
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Hong Kong content distributor MediaLink Entertainment Limited's Ani-One Asia platform announced on Tuesday that it has licensed the television anime of Sōsuke Tōka's Ranking of Kings (Ōsama Ranking) manga. The stream will premiere on October 15 on Ani-One Asia's streaming platform and the iQIYI Asia streaming service. The anime will also premiere in Japan on October 15.
The anime will premiere two weeks after the Japanese premiere on Bahamut, CATCHPLAY, Chunghwa Telecom (MOD&Hami Video), friDay, KKTV, LINE TV, and My-Video in Taiwan; on My-TV Super in Hong Kong; on CATCHPLAY and meWATCH in Singapore; and on CATCHPLAY and Sushiroll in Indonesia.
The web manga centers around Bojji, a deaf, powerless prince who cannot even wield a children's sword. As the firstborn son, he strives hard and dreams of becoming the world's greatest king. However, people mutter about him behind his back as "a good-for-nothing prince" and "no way he can be king."
Bojji is able to make his first ever friend, "Kage" (shadow) — a literal shadow on the ground who somehow understands Bojji well. (Kage is a survivor of the Kage assassin clan that was all but wiped out. No longer a killer, Kage now makes ends meet by stealing.) The story follows Bojji's coming-of-age as he meets various people in his life, starting with his fateful encounter with Kage.
Yousuke Hatta (One-Punch Man episode director, Boogiepop and Others assistant director) is directing the anime at Wit Studio, with Arifumi Imai as assistant director. Taku Kishimoto (91 Days, Fruits Basket 2019, Moriarty the Patriot) is in charge of the series scripts. Atsuko Nozaki (Tokyo Magnitude 8.0, The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky) is designing the characters, while Masaki Kawake is the sub-character designer. Both are credited as chief animation directors. Makoto Fuchigami is the chief LINE director. Masaru Oshiro, Shin Ogasawara, and Nozomu Fujii are the main animators. MAYUKO is composing the music.
The band King Gnu (first Banana Fish ending) are performing the opening theme song "BOY." Yama performs the ending theme song "Oz."
