A new trailer, ending theme song, and two more voice cast members have been revealed for the upcoming Devils’ Crest anime series. The anime will premiere on November 6, 2026 and stream worldwide on Prime Video.
The latest trailer highlights the anime’s ending theme “ReaL” by Soala.
An English-subtitled version of the trailer was also released on Warner Bros. Japan Anime’s YouTube channel.
In addition, the two new voice cast members joining the series include Atsushi Tamaru as Shin Haizaki and Ayumu Murase as Kakeru Niki. Tamaru previously voiced Gilbert Ruby Martinez in The Oblivious Saint Can’t Contain Her Power, while Murase voiced Gabriel and several other characters in Daemons of the Shadow Realm.
Meanwhile, the anime’s previously announced voice cast includes:
- • Haruka Shiraishi as Yuma Ashihara
- • Konomi Inagaki as Sawa Ashihara
- • Yuya Hirose as Kenji Kondo
- • Satomi Amano as Minagi Sano
- • Yusuke Kobayashi as Teruki Sugamo
- • Maaya Uchida as Aria Misono
- • Rie Murakawa as Kai Kisanuki
- • Sora Amamiya as Sumika Watamaki
Kenichiro Komaya is directing the anime series, with Shinji Ushiro (Scum of the Brave and Blessing of the Campanella director) as chief director and Yukiko Horiguchi as character designer. Horiguchi is also the original light novels’ illustrator and has previously been a character designer for anime such as K-On! and Lucky Star. Production I.G is handling the animation production.
Other staff include Eiji Umehara (Vivy -Fluorite Eye’s Song co-series composer) as series composer and Yuki Hayashi (Haikyu!!, My Hero Academia) and Naoyuki Chikatani (Ya Boy Kongming! live-action movie) as music composers.
The adventure fantasy light novel series, written by Sword Art Online author Reki Kawahara, was first published under Kadokawa’s Dengeki Bunko imprint on November 10, 2022. Four volumes have been released in Japan as of December 2025.
The light novels have also inspired a webtoon manga series in November 2022, which is drawn by TOmoe with scripts by Koroku Takano. It has been published digitally on the Hyke Comic platform.
Yen Press licensed the Devils’ Crest light novel series in English under the title Demons’ Crest. It describes the synopsis as:
Sixth-grader Yuuma Ashihara and his twin sister, Sawa, are playing Actual Magic, a brand-new virtual reality MMORPG, when it suddenly begins fusing with the real world. Amid all the chaos and confusion, it becomes clear that death is lurking around every corner, including when Yuuma runs into his classmate Sumika. Before, she was one of the cutest girls in his class, but she’s since undergone a terrible metamorphosis—into one of the game’s horrifying monsters! From the author of Sword Art Online and Accel World comes a story beyond VR and AR, where gaming and reality are one and the same…and staying alive is just the beginning!
Sources: Devils’ Crest Official X/Twitter (2) (3), Anime News Network
