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Scum of the Brave Anime Streams 4th Promotional Video

The staff for the television anime of writer Rocket Shokai and artist Nakashima723's Scum of the Brave (Yūsha no Kuzu) manga started streaming the anime's fourth promotional video and revealed the third main visual on Wednesday. The new video previews the final stage in the battle between Shinigami Yashiro and Lord Storm Coffin.

Manga Planet is publishing the manga in English digitally, and it describes the story:

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
• Tomokazu Sugita as Father Ayashima
• Ayumu Murase as Lord Hazeru Seito

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

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 D-Anime 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 volume shipped on February 20.

Sources: Scum of the Brave anime's website, Comic Natalie