The Kingdoms of Ruin anime adaptation has received its first trailer, providing a look at the show’s take on yoruhash‘s dark fantasy manga and the character designs.
The Kingdoms of Ruin is set to premiere in October. The Mag Garden-published manga it is based on began serialization in Monthly Comic Garden in 2019 and has seven tankoubon volumes as of September 2022. Seven Seas Entertainment describes the plot as:
Humanity long lived in harmony with witches, but an advanced scientific revolution has made the powers of a witch unnecessary. Succumbing to resentment and fear, the greatest nation in the world begins a brutal witch hunt and eliminates all witches from the land. After being forced to watch his beloved teacher die, Adonis, a witch’s apprentice, swears revenge on the empire that took everything away from him. It’s a bloody battle between science and magic in this thrilling new fantasy manga!
Keitarou Motonaga (She Professed Herself Pupil of the Wise Man) is directing the Yokohama Animation Lab -produced anime with Takamitsu Kouno (She Professed Herself Pupil of the Wise Man) as series composer. Other staff include:
• Hiromi Katou (ID-0 animation character designer) as character designer
• Miki Sakurai (The Demon Girl Next Door)
• Shuu Kanematsu (Dynamic Chord)
• Hanae Nakamura (The Quintessential Quintuplets the Movie co-composer) as music composers
Meanwhile, the cast includes Kaito Ishikawa as Adonis, Azumi Waki as Doroka, and Ryouko Shiraishi as Chloe.
Source: Nikkatsu Anime Channel
