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Scum of the Brave Anime's New Video Unveils More Cast, New Theme Songs

The staff for the television anime of writer Rocket Shokai and artist Nakashima723's Scum of the Brave (Yūsha no Kuzu) manga presented its third main promotional video and third main visual on Saturday. The video announces two more cast members and the new theme songs for the anime's second cours (quarter of the year), which starts on April 11.

The newly announced cast members are:

• Tomokazu Sugita as Father Ayashima, the constantly smiling (perhaps overly so) Hero who runs the Hero Hot Springs
• Ayumu Murase as Lord Hazeru Seito, one of the three Demon Lords who split Hokkaido into three areas

The trio ClariS performs the new opening theme song "Revive," and the rock band w.o.d. performs the new ending theme song "Non-Fiction."

In an alternate 21st century, rich mafia members can turn into "Demon Kings" through increasingly popular ether-enhancement surgery, and the bounty hunters called "Braves" are the ones called upon to take them down. Yashiro only wants the simple pleasures in life - pizza, beer, and card games. When three young Braves offer him a majestic sum to be their private tutor, he agrees solely for the money - but is it worth what he's getting himself into?

The anime stars:

• Ryōta Suzuki as Shinigami Yashiro
• Akari Kitō as Aki Jogamine
• Momo Harumi as Yukine Indō
• Yumiri Hanamori as Sara Kashiwagi Pendragon
• Hinata Tadokoro as Salt Joe
• Daisuke Hirakawa as Ongakuya Ishinō
• Yasuhiro Takato as Moguri no Maruta
• Yūichirō Umehara as Lord "Wedge of Both Hands"
• Katsuyuki Konishi as Arthur Pendragon

Shinji Ushiro is directing the anime at OLM. Yoichi Kato is writing and overseeing the series scripts, Rika Murakami is designing the characters, and Kenichiro Suehiro is composing the music.

Other staff members include:

• Color Key Artist: Naoto Kondō
• Art Director: Kazuhiro Inoue
• Compositing Director of Photography: Tsunetaka Ema
• Editing: Naoki Watanabe
• Sound Director: Takahiro Enomoto

The anime premiered on NTV and its affiliated channels on January 10 at 24:55 (effectively, January 11 at 12:55 am.) It streams the dAnime and Hulu services before other streaming services, as well as on the AT-X channel. The anime is airing for two cours (quarter of a year) without a break. Crunchyroll is streaming the anime as it airs.

The manga launched in 2018 and runs on LEED Publishing's Comic Border service. The manga's eighth volume shipped on December 18.

Rocket Shokai (Sentenced to Be a Hero: The Prison Records of Penal Hero Unit 9004) launched the story on the Kakuyomu website in February 2016. The series is getting re-published into novel format with revisions, and the new publication will feature illustrations by toi8. The second compiled volume shipped on February 20.

Sources: Press release, Scum of the Brave anime's website