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Palette's 9-nine- Ruler's Crown TV Anime's 2nd Promo Video Unveils Opening Song, July 5 Debut
posted on by Joanna Cayanan
The official website for 9-nine- Ruler's Crown, the television anime of Palette's 9-nine- game, started streaming the second promotional video on Sunday. The video reveals and previews the anime's opening theme song "ResoNAnce" by Araki, and its July 5 premiere, with a 60-minute special premiere of episodes 1 and 2.
The anime will premiere on July 5 on the Tokyo MX channel at 10:00 p.m. JST, and will start streaming on various streaming services in Japan at 10:30 p.m. The anime will premiere on the BS NTV channel on July 5 at 24:00 JST (effectively, July 6 at 12 midnight).
The anime's returning cast members from the game are:
- Misato Fukuen as Miyako Kujō
- Atsumi Tanezaki as Sora Niimi
- Yuri Yamaoka as Haruma Kōsaka
- Akane Fujita as Noa Yūki
- Satomi Arai as Sophitia
- Atsushi Abe as Kakeru Niimi
- Kazutomi Yamamoto as Yoichi Fukazawa
- Tomokazu Sugita as Renya Takamine
- Hana Takeda as Satsuki Naruse
Kōichi Ōhata (Burst Angel, Ikki Tousen: Dragon Destiny, Maken-Ki! Battling Venus) is directing the anime at PRA, and Saori Sakiguchi (number24, Technoroid Overmind) is designing the characters. Chihiro Yonekura, who also performed for the games, performs the anime's ending theme song "Pale Blaze."
The new 9-nine- spinoff adventure game will launch on PC (Windows 10/11 compatible) in winter 2025. Aoi Yūki will voice the new heroine.
The 9-nine- game consists of four "episodes." Sekai Project has released all four episodes on Steam in English. Palette then released the game for Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 in June 2022.
All of the episodes share the same world and setting, but each focuses on a different heroine. Sekai Project describes the games:
9-nine- is a tale of the town of Shiromitsugawa, host to mysterious Artifacts and the superpowers they bestow on their Users. A tale of growing trust and budding romance between the protagonist and the heroine, and also a murder mystery where they hunt down the culprit behind a series of supernatural murders.
Palette released the four episodes separately in 2017-2020 for PC, and then released all the episodes plus an extra episode in a bundle for PC in April 2021. The PS4 and Switch versions are based on this release.
