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Crunchyroll Streams Granbelm Original Anime

Crunchyroll announced on Thursday that it will stream the Granbelm original anime series. Crunchyroll's stream will launch on Friday, July 6 at 2:55 p.m. EDT for users worldwide outside of Asia. Crunchyroll is streaming an English-subtitled video for the anime.

The show's first 10 minutes streamed in April with the announcement of the series' July 5 premiere date in Japan on the "Animeism" programming block on MBS, TBS, and BS-TBS.

Crunchyroll describes the anime:

The destiny of the full moon-- The wheels of fate start spinning on the night of the new moon.

It had been nearly 1,000 years since all the magic in the world disappeared, and most people had forgotten it ever existed at all. Kohinata Mangetsu is a cheerful high school student who has a pretty positive outlook on life, but there was some doubt in her heart. She has nothing to call her own-- Because she wasn't good at academics or sports, she dreamed of having something she was actually good at.

On a night where the full moon was shining brightly, she happens to meet another girl who also has the character for "moon" in her name named Shingetsu Ernesta Hukami. That was also when she encountered the mechanical dolls called "ARMANOX." The wheels of fate of the full moon start to spin slowly...

The anime stars:

Miyuri Shimabukuro as Mangetsu Kohinata

Atsumi Tanezaki as Shingetsu Ernesta Fukami

Yōko Hikasa as Anna Fugo

Yurika Kubo as Nene Rin

Aoi Yūki as Suishō Hakamada

Chinatsu Akasaki as Rosa

Hikaru Akao as Kibō Kohinata

Manaka Iwami as Kuon Tsuchimikado

Juri Kimura as Nana Rin

Nozomi Kasuga as Mimi Rin

Marika Kōno as Claire Fugo

Yumi Uchiyama as Sasha

Yukari Tamura as Shisui Tsuchimikado

Masaharu Watanabe (Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-, Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Memory Snow, Wakaba Girl) is directing the series at Nexus (Wakaba Girl, Chivalry of a Failed Knight). Jukki Hanada (Sound! Euphonium, Love Live! School idol project, Love Live! Sunshine!!) is overseeing the series scripts and Shinichirou Otsuka (Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- light novel illustrator) is designing the original characters. Infinite is producing the anime. Eir Aoi is performing opening theme song "Tsuki o Ou Mayonaka" (Following the Moon in the Middle of the Night), and Uru is performing the anime's ending theme song "Negai" (Wish).

Source: Crunchyroll (Paul Chapman)