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Makoto Furukawa, ZAQ Perform Theme Songs for Requiem of the Rose King Anime
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The official website for the television anime adaptation of Aya Kanno's Requiem of the Rose King (Bara-Ō no Sōretsu) manga revealed the theme song artists for the show's first cours (quarter of a year) on Sunday. Voice actor Makoto Furukawa will perform the opening theme song "Ware, Bara ni Insu." Arika Takarano from Ali Project is writing the song. ZAQ will perform the ending theme song "Akumu."
The anime will premiere in January 2022, and will air for two consecutive cours (quarters of a year), for a half-year continuous run. The anime was previously slated to premiere this fall, but the production committee announced a delay in July.
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
- Houchu Ohtsuka as Narrator
Kentarō Suzuki (Angels of Death, Kud Wafter) is directing the anime at J.C. Staff, and Hiroki Uchida (Days of Urashimasakatasen, Gamers!, Merc Storia: The Apathetic Boy and the Girl in a Bottle) is supervising and writing the series scripts. Chikara Hashizume is designing the characters. Additional staff members include Kentaro Izumi (A Certain Scientific Railgun T) as the art director, Mayumi Tanahashi as the color designer, Akihiro Takahashi as director of photography, Yoshikazu Iwanami as the audio director, Kou Otani as the music composer, and Lantis as the music producer.
The manga's dark fantasy story adapts Shakespeare's Richard III. Viz Media 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.
Kanno (Otomen) launched Requiem of the Rose King in Akita Shoten's Monthly Princess magazine in October 2013, and the series is slated to end in three chapters. A novel adaptation by Yō Makusu will ship on December 15.
Kineko Abekawa launched a spinoff manga titled King of Idol Bara-Ō no Gakuen (King of Idol Rose King Academy) in Monthly Princess on January 4.
Sources: Requiem of the Rose King anime's website, Comic Natalie
