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K: Seven Stories' R:B ~Blaze~ Film to Screen in Southeast Asia

Odex announced on Monday that it will screen R:B ~Blaze~, the first part in the six-part K: Seven Stories theatrical anime project, in Southeast Asia, including in Singapore, the Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Brunei. It did not reveal if it will screen the rest of the films, nor did it announce a release date for the anime.

R:B ~Blaze~ will open in theaters in Japan on July 7, and it stars:

• Kenjiro Tsuda as Mikoto Suoh
• Tomokazu Sugita as Reisi Munakata
• Takahiro Sakurai as Izumo Kusanagi
• Yūki Kaji as Tatara Totsuka
• Taku Yashiro as Daichi Yamata
• Miyuki Sawashiro as Seri Awashima

A The Idol K anime short will also screen alongside each episode. The shorts will star:

• Daisuke Namikawa as Yashiro Isana
• Daisuke Ono as Kuroh Yatogami
• Kenjiro Tsuda as Mikoto Suoh
• Jun Fukuyama as Misaki Yata
• Tomokazu Sugita as Reisi Munakata
• Mamoru Miyano as Saruhiko Fushimi
• Kazuyuki Okitsu as Nagare Hisui
• Masakazu Morita as Yukari Mishakuji

The schedule for the rest of the episodes is:

• Episode 2 SIDE:BLUE ~Tenrō no Gotoku (Like Sirius) opens on August 4
• Episode 3 SIDE:GREEN ~Uwagaki Sekai~ (The Overwritten World) opens on September 1
• Episode 4 Lost Small World ~Ori no Mukō ni (To the Other Side of the Cage) opens on October 6
• Episode 5 Memory of Red ~BURN~ opens on November 3
• Episode 6 Circle Vision ~Nameless Song~ opens on December 1

Shingo Suzuki is returning as director and character designer at the studio GoHands the anime. GoRA and GoHands are once again credited for the original story. GoRA is also credited with writing and oveerseeing the series scripts. Mikio Endo is again composing the music. Music group angela is performing all six ending theme songs — one for each of the six parts. The group is also performing the opening theme song "SURVIVE!" for all six parts. Each of the ending theme songs is named after each part's subtitle.

K: Memory of Red is a title of a manga in the franchise, and K SIDE:BLUE, K:SIDE:GREEN, and K: R:B are titles of novels in the franchise. K―Lost Small World― is both a novel and a manga. Idol K is a parody book that reimagines if the characters in the franchise were all idols. The sixth episode will tell a new story.