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Ani-One Streams Requiem of the Rose King Anime for Ultra Subscribers
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Hong Kong content distributor MediaLink Entertainment Limited's Ani-One YouTube channel announced on Monday that it will stream the television anime of Aya Kanno's Requiem of the Rose King (Bara-Ō no Sōretsu) manga for ULTRA subscribers.
Alongside Hong Kong and India, Ani-One will stream the anime in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Fiji, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Macau, Malaysia, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Micronesia, Mongolia, Nauru, Nepal, New Caledonia, Pakistan, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu starting on January 10 at 7:30 a.m. IST.
The channel will also stream the anime in Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam from January 24.
Ani-One describes the anime:
Neither male nor female, but instead possessing characteristics of both sexes, young Prince Richard III is treated as “the son of devil” by his mother. Aiming to help his father to get the throne, he is involved in a merciless war- Wars of the Roses. But after an encounter with a mysterious man, his life is changing. A dark fantasy is going to stage.
The anime will premiere on Tokyo MX, Sun TV, and KBS Kyoto on January 9, and on BS11 on January 11. (Tokyo MX will air it first at 10:30 p.m. in Japan.)
The anime will air for two consecutive cours (quarters of a year), for a half-year continuous run. The anime was previously slated to premiere last fall, but the production committee announced a delay in July.
The anime stars:
- Mitsuki Saiga as Richard
- Hikaru Midorikawa as Henry
- Sho Hayami as Richard, Duke of York
- Kousuke Toriumi as Edward
- Yasuaki Takumi as George, Duke of Clarence
- Satoshi Mikami as the Earl of Warwick
- Satoshi Hino as William Catesby
- Sayaka Ohara as Queen Margaret
- Kōhei Amasaki as Edward of Westminster
- Sayumi Suzushiro as Lady Anne Neville
- Ayumi Mano as Lady Isabel Neville
- Shizuka Itou as Queen Elizabeth
- Aya Hisakawa as Cecily Neville
- Houchu Ohtsuka as Narrator
- Riho Sugiyama as Henry Stafford
- Aoi Yūki as Joan of Arc
Kentarō Suzuki (Angels of Death, Kud Wafter) is directing the anime at J.C. Staff, and Hiroki Uchida (Days of Urashimasakatasen, Gamers!, Merc Storia: The Apathetic Boy and the Girl in a Bottle) is supervising and writing the series scripts. Chikara Hashizume is designing the characters. Additional staff members include Kentaro Izumi (A Certain Scientific Railgun T) as the art director, Mayumi Tanahashi as the color designer, Akihiro Takahashi as the director of photography, Yoshikazu Iwanami as the audio director, Kou Otani as the music composer, and Lantis as the music producer.
Voice actor Makoto Furukawa will perform the opening theme song "Ware, Bara ni Insu." Arika Takarano from ALI Project is writing the song. ZAQ will perform the ending theme song "Akumu."
The manga's dark fantasy story adapts Shakespeare's Richard III. Viz Media licensed the manga.
Kanno (Otomen) launched Requiem of the Rose King in Akita Shoten's Monthly Princess magazine in October 2013, and ended the series on Thursday. Kanno will launch a spinoff manga in March.
A novel adaptation by Yō Makusu shipped on December 15. Kineko Abekawa launched a spinoff manga titled King of Idol Bara-Ō no Gakuen (King of Idol Rose King Academy) in Monthly Princess in January 2020.
Source: Ani-One's Facebook page
