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Animax Asia Airs Strike The Blood FINAL, Parallel World Pharmacy in November

Animax Asia announced on Thursday that it will air the Strike The Blood FINAL and Parallel World Pharmacy anime in November. In addition, Animax Asia's airing of the Gintama' anime will continue on to the anime's second season.

The first two episodes of the Strike The Blood FINAL anime will premiere on Animax Asia on November 11 at 10:00 p.m., while the last two episodes will air on November 16.

Strike The Blood FINAL is the fifth and final original video anime (OVA) "season" based on Gakuto Mikumo's Strike the Blood light novel series, and it adapts the 22nd and final main Strike the Blood light novel volume in four episodes. The first two-episode volume shipped on Blu-ray Disc and DVD on March 30, while the last two-episode volume shipped on Blu-ray Disc and DVD on July 29.

Kishida Kyōdan & The Akeboshi Rockets performed the opening theme song "Akatsuki no Kaleid Blood." Risa Taneda performed the ending theme song "Engagement ~Yakusoku~" as her character Yukina Himeragi.

The new OVA featured returning cast and staff, including director Hideyo Yamamoto, scriptwriter Hiroyuki Yoshino, character designer Keiichi Sano (joined by Hideki Furukawa), sound director Jin Aketagawa at the sound production studio Magic Capsule, composer Assumed Sounds, and animation studio CONNECT.

The main story of Mikumo's Strike the Blood novel series ended in the 22nd compiled book volume in August 2020.

The novels debuted in 2011 with Manyako's illustrations. The school action fantasy story of Strike the Blood begins with Kojō Akatsuki, a boy deemed the "fourth progenitor" — the world's most powerful vampire, once thought to only exist in legend and lore. In the Itogamijima special zone for demons, a girl named Yukina Himeragi is entrusted with watching over the vampire and if needed, hunting him down.

The television anime of Liz Takayama's Isekai Yakkyoku (Parallel World Pharmacy) novel series will premiere on Animax Asia on November 9 at 8:00 p.m., and will air two episodes every Wednesday and Thursday.

The anime premiered in Japan on July 8. Muse Asia streamed the anime as it aired in Japan, and it describes the anime:

Kanji Yakutani is a pharmaceutical researcher in modern Japan. He woke up one day and found that he had been reborn as Falma de Médicis, a son of a court pharmacist from the respected de Médicis family. Falma was shocked upon seeing the world's medicinal field being dominated by false procedure and drug formulations as well as popular practices like magic and spell that could not be regarded as medical practice at all. Making use of the modern pharmaceutical knowledge that he has, along with the overpowering ability of "Substance Creation & Substance Elimination" which he gained in the parallel world as part of "Divine Arts" only the noble family can use, he faced various illnesses upon him. And so, he produced effective drugs known as "Parallel World Pharmacy" and spread them to the people. Parallel World power x modern pharmacy! The fantasy that changes the future of the medical field in an alternate world and saves people, begins now!

Keizō Kusakawa (Kan Colle, Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha The MOVIE 1st, Ahiru no Sora, Dog Days, Sekirei) directed the anime at diomedéa, and Wataru Watari (My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU, Girlish Number) was in charge of the series scripts. Mayuko Matsumoto (Chio's School Road, Kan Colle) designed the characters.

Source: Press release