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Clevatess Anime's Video Reveals Ellie Goulding's Ending Song, More Cast, July 2 Debut
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The official website for television anime of Yuji Iwahara's Clevatess -Majū no Ō to Akago to Shikabane no Yūsha- (Clevatess - The King of Magical Beasts, the Baby, and the Corpse Hero) manga began streaming a new promotional video for the anime on Tuesday. The video first previews the anime's opening song "Ruler" by Mayu Maeshima, before revealing and previewing the ending theme song "Destiny," by British pop singer Ellie Goulding. The video also reveals more cast for the anime, as well as its July 2 premiere date.
English subtitles available via YouTube's closed caption feature
Goulding created the song specifically for this anime.
The new cast members include (Note: Character name romanizations are not official):
The anime will premiere on the AT-X channel on July 2 at 8:30 p.m. (7:30 a.m. EDT) and then run on Tokyo MX, Sun TV, KBS Kyoto, BS NTV, TV Fukushima, Nagano Broadcasting Systems, TV Yamanashi, Aichi TV, Iwate Broadcasting, Miyagi TV, Hokuriku Broadcasting, TV Shizuoka, TV Shin Hiroshima, Akita Asahi Broadcasting, Hokkaido TV, Nihonkai Telecasting, Nagasaki International Television Broadcasting, Nagoya TV, and Niigata Broadcasting on the same day. The anime will also begin streaming on d Anime Store, U-NEXT, and Anime Hōdai on July 2. The anime will premiere on Ryukyu Broadcasting, Aomori Broadcasting, RKB Mainichi Broadcasting, and Tulip-TV on July 3, and on Fukui TV, TV-U Yamagata, and Kagoshima Television Station on July 5.
- Haruka Shiraishi as Alicia
- Mutsumi Tamura as Clen
- Yūichi Nakamura as Clevatess
- Saya Aizawa as Luna
- Jun Hashizume as the King of Haiden
- Mamoru Miyano as Stefan
- Yūki Ono as Mirlo
- Kenta Miyake as Holgas
- Yūma Uchida as Katz
- Yōhei Azakami as Mudo
- Shimba Tsuchiya as Minark
Kiyotaka Taguchi (kaiju designer for SSSS.Dynazenon film) is directing the anime at Lay-duce. Keigo Koyanagi (Brave Bang Bravern!, The Rising of The Shield Hero) is in charge of series scripts, Souichirou Sako (Buddy Daddies, Magi: Adventure of Sinbad) is designing the characters, and Nobuaki Nobusawa (Mr. Villain's Day Off, Police in a Pod, Steins;Gate 0) is composing the music.
The story begins with Alicia — who has aspired to be a brave hero since she was little — after she has been chosen by the king to be one of 13 heroes for a quest. Wielding legendary swords, the heroes set out to subjugate the lord of magical beasts, Clevatess. However, these very heroes might bring about the realm's deadliest catastrophe that would wipe out all humanity. The world's last remaining hope lies in a baby entrusted to the lord of magical beasts.
Iwahara (Darker than Black character designer, King of Thorn manga creator) launched the manga on the LINE Manga app in August 2020. LINE Digital Frontier published the manga's first compiled book volume physically on the same day it launched, and the eighth volume released digitally on October 15.
Kadokawa started serializing the manga on its Comic Alive+ website in April 2024. Kadokawa is publishing a new edition of the manga's compiled book volumes, and the seventh volume shipped on March 28.
Source: Clevatess anime's website
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