Girls' Frontline TV Anime's 1st Promo Video Reveals Main Cast, Global Streaming
Warner Bros. Japan revealed a trailer on Thursday for the
television anime adaptation of
Sunborn Network's Girls' Frontline smartphone game. The trailer reveals that the anime will stream globally this year.
Warner Bros. Japan also revealed the show's main cast and a key visual.
The show stars:
Asahi Productions is animating the series, and Warner Bros. Japan is producing the project. Sunborn Network Technology and Mica Team are credited with the original story.
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Seven Knights Revolution TV Anime's Video Reveals flumpool's Opening Song, April 4 Debut
The official website for
Seven Knights Revolution: Eiyū no Keishōsha (The Hero's Successor), the television
anime of
Netmarble's Seven Knights smartphone RPG, posted a short version of the anime's opening sequence without credits on Monday. The video reveals and previews the opening theme song "Freeze" by
flumpool, and it also reveals the April 4 premiere.
The anime will premiere on
Tokyo MX,
BS11, and Kyoto TV on April 4 at 12:00 a.m. (effectively, April 5). The series will then air on
Sun TV.
The anime will star:
The cast also
includes:
(name romanizations are not confirmed)
Kazuya Ichikawa (
Monster Strike the Animation,
The World Ends with You the Animation) is directing the anime at
LIDEN FILMS and
Domerica.
Ukyō Kodachi (
Lord El-Melloi II's Case Files: Rail Zeppelin Grace note series composition,
Boruto: Naruto Next Generations manga's storywriter) is overseeing the series scripts,
Arisa Matsuura (
Clean Freak! Aoyama kun) is the character designer, and
Yoshiaki Fujisawa (
The Eccentric Family,
Love Live! School idol project) is composing the music. Seven Knights Revolution is credited with the original work.
In the anime's story, there were once many heroes who saved the world from Destruction. Time has since passed, and young men and women who have the title of "Successor" awaken powers from the heroes of old, and are entrusted with the fate of the world. The "Seven Knights" are a group of top Successors. Among the Seven Knights is a young woman named Faria, who is fighting against the troops of Destruction. In the midst of this battle, she saves a young man named Nemo. Nemo then awakens the power of a Successor, but no one knows of the hero whose powers he has inherited.
The game launched for iOS and Android devices in Japan in 2016. Netmarble has also released the smartphone game in English. The company
describes the story:
On the day the sun refused to rise
The God of Destruction divided his power into twelve pieces.
and distributed it to twelve chosen leaders on earth.
Among them, Seven were chosen in the land of Asgard.
Their deadly powers threatened each other, and war seemed to be inevitable.
Goddess Ellena took pity upon the world and decided to end the war by selecting a boy she deemed worthy, and bestowed her own powers to him hidden deep in his consciousness in order to prevent misuse.
After finding out about his adopted past, Evan, the son of a general, embarks on an adventure to search for his real parents, along with a necklace given to him by his birth parents as the only clue.
During his adventure, Evan came across a town after it was ravaged by the Goblins. and rescued a girl named Karin from danger.
After losing both her parents to the Goblin raids, Karin decides to leave her town to start her own adventure alongside Evan.
Netmarble released a
Nintendo Switch game in the
franchise titled Seven Knights -Time Wanderer- (Seven Knights: Jikū no Tabibito) in English and Japanese on November 5. Netmarble has
released a Seven Knights II smartphone game in South Korea. Netmarble is working on a new game in the franchise titled Seven Knights Revolution that will launch this year.
The official website for
Seven Knights Revolution: Eiyū no Keishōsha (The Hero's Successor), the television
anime of
Netmarble's Seven Knights smartphone RPG, revealed on Saturday that voice actor
Daiki Yamashita will perform the ending theme song "Tail" for the show. The song will mark Yamashita's full debut as a singing artist.