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Clevatess Anime Reveals More Cast, Staff, Opening Song in 2nd Promo Video
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Kadokawa revealed more staff, cast, the second "episode visual," and a promotional video for the television anime of Yuji Iwahara's Clevatess -Majū no Ō to Akago to Shikabane no Yūsha- (Clevatess - The King of Magical Beasts, the Baby, and the Corpse Hero) manga on Saturday. The video reveals and previews the opening theme song "Ruler" by Mayu Maeshima.
The second "episode visual" features the moment the king of Haiden forges the "Treasures" right after his son's funeral.
The newly announced cast are (some character name romanizations are not confirmed):
Additional staff announced includes:
- Animation Director: Takurō Tsukada
- In-Between Check Chief: Ikue Yoshima
- Art Director: Atsushi Morikawa
- Color Design: Reiko Iwasawa
- Compositing Director of Photography: Shigeki Asakawa
- CG Director: Naoki Tsuji
- Editing: Gō Sadamatsu
- Sound Director: Kiyotaka Taguchi
- Sound Effects: Yuji Furuya
- Recording Adjustment: Tetsuya Satake
- Animation Producer: Masaichirō Kuriyama
The anime will premiere in July.
The anime stars:
- Haruka Shiraishi as Alicia
- Mutsumi Tamura as Clen
- Yūichi Nakamura as Clevatess
- Saya Aizawa as Luna
Kiyotaka Taguchi (kaiju designer for SSSS.Dynazenon film) is directing the anime at Lay-duce. Keigo Koyanagi (Brave Bang Bravern!, The Rising of The Shield Hero) is in charge of series scripts, Souichirou Sako (Buddy Daddies, Magi: Adventure of Sinbad) is designing the characters, and Nobuaki Nobusawa (Mr. Villain's Day Off, Police in a Pod, Steins;Gate 0) is composing the music.
The story begins with Alicia — who has aspired to be a brave hero since she was little — after she has been chosen by the king to be one of 13 heroes for a quest. Wielding legendary swords, the heroes set out to subjugate the lord of magical beasts, Clevatess. However, these very heroes might bring about the realm's deadliest catastrophe that would wipe out all humanity. The world's last remaining hope lies in a baby entrusted to the lord of magical beasts.
Iwahara (Darker than Black character designer, King of Thorn manga creator) launched the manga on the LINE Manga app in August 2020. LINE Digital Frontier published the manga's first compiled book volume physically on the same day it launched, and the eighth volume released digitally on October 15.
Kadokawa started serializing the manga on its Comic Alive+ website in April 2024. Kadokawa is publishing a new edition of the manga's compiled book volumes, and the seventh volume will ship on March 28.
Source: Press release
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