During its industry panel at Anime Expo 2024, Crunchyroll released a new key visual and teaser trailer for the upcoming Demon Lord, Retry! R TV anime series, which will begin airing in Japan this October 2024. The streaming platform will stream the series worldwide, as it airs in Japan.
A Japanese and English subtitled version of the new trailer were also both released.
Crunchyroll will stream the series in North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, and CIS.
Kazuomi Koga (Kubo Won’t Let Me Be Invisible, Rent-A-Girlfriend Season 1 and 2) is directing the new anime, with Katsuhiko Takayama (The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash) as series screenwriter, Minori Homura (Isekai no Yu) as character designer, and Gekko as the animation production company.
Meanwhile, the anime’s voice cast includes:
- • Kenjiro Tsuda as Hakuto Kunai
- • Momo Asakura as Aku
- • Azumi Waki as Akane Fujisaki
- • Iori Noguchi as Eagle
- • Aina Suzuki as Luna Elegant
Tsuda is reprising his role from the first Demon Lord, Retry! Series in 2019, while Asakura is replacing Kanon Takao. Other replacements include Noguchi replacing Akari Kito and Suzuki replacing Kaori Ishihara.
Demon Lord, Retry! R is a sequel to the manga adaptation of the Demon Lord, Retry! isekai fantasy light novels. The series started in 2016 as a Shosetsuka ni Naro web novel written by Kurone Kanzaki. The light novels were then published under Futabasha’s Monster Bunko label in July 2017, with new illustrations by Koji Ogata. Nine volumes of the series’ second, revised editions have been released as of September 2023.
The manga adaptation by Amaru Minotake began serialization in Futabasha’s Web Comic Action in October 2017 and is currently serialized in Gaugau Monster. The pre-R content is collected into five tankobon volumes, with the last being released in December 2019. J Novel Club releases both the light novel series and manga adaptation in English digitally.
Crunchyroll will stream Demon Lord, Retry! R, and describes the series as:
Akira Oono finds himself in the world of Infinity Game as the last boss and his favorite character, the Demon Lord Hakuto Kunai. After meeting Aku, Luna, and other friends along the way, the Demon Lord begins a new journey to find a spell that can take him back to the real world. The story of the Demon Lord continues in this next chapter!
Source: Crunchyroll News, Crunchyroll industry panel at Anime Expo
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