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Funimation Streams Requiem of the Rose King Anime
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Anime premieres in Japan on Sunday
The anime will premiere 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 announced a delay in July.
The manga's dark fantasy story adapts Shakespeare's Richard III. licensed the manga, and it describes the story:
Richard's father, the patriarch of the House of York, is poised to become king of medieval England during the bloody Wars of the Roses. But just as success is imminent, he is abruptly cut down. Plunged into despair, Richard acts out in revenge and must face a powerful and beautiful new enemy.
The anime stars:
- Mitsuki Saiga as Richard
- Hikaru Midorikawa as Henry
- Shō Hayami as Richard, Duke of York
- Kōsuke Toriumi as Edward
- Yasuaki Takumi as George, Duke of Clarence
- Satoshi Mikami as the Earl of Warwick
- Satoshi Hino as William Catesby
- Sayaka Ōhara 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
Lantis as the music producer.
ZAQ will perform the ending theme song "Akumu."
Source: Funimation (Liam Dempsey)