{"id":16793,"date":"2021-03-23T03:03:38","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T10:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/?p=16793"},"modified":"2021-03-25T21:23:59","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T04:23:59","slug":"richard-iii-inspired-requiem-of-the-rose-king-manga-gets-anime-key-visual-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2021\/03\/23\/richard-iii-inspired-requiem-of-the-rose-king-manga-gets-anime-key-visual-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard III-inspired Requiem of the Rose King Manga Gets Anime, Key Visual Released"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>Richard III<\/em>-based gothic manga <em>Requiem of the Rose King<\/em> is receiving an anime adaptation, with the anime set to premiere in fall 2021. A key visual depicting its protagonist Richard was released on the anime&#8217;s website.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The anime is directed by <em><a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2021\/03\/08\/little-busters-spin-off-kud-wafter-gets-new-trailer-may-14-release\/\">Kud Wafter<\/a> <\/em>and <em>Angels of Death<\/em>&#8216;s Kentarou Suzuki, with <em>Gamers!<\/em>&#8216; Hiroki Uchida as series composer and scriptwriter and&nbsp;<em>Mewkledreamy<\/em> episode 2&#8217;s animation director Tsutomu Hashizume as character designer. J.C. Staff is in charge of the animation production.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"976\" data-attachment-id=\"16794\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2021\/03\/23\/richard-iii-inspired-requiem-of-the-rose-king-manga-gets-anime-key-visual-released\/requiemoftheroseking_richardvisual\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/requiemoftheroseking_richardvisual-scaled.jpg?fit=1826%2C2560&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1826,2560\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"requiemoftheroseking_richardvisual\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/requiemoftheroseking_richardvisual-scaled.jpg?fit=214%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/requiemoftheroseking_richardvisual-scaled.jpg?fit=696%2C976&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/requiemoftheroseking_richardvisual.jpg?resize=696%2C976&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16794\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/requiemoftheroseking_richardvisual-scaled.jpg?resize=730%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 730w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/requiemoftheroseking_richardvisual-scaled.jpg?resize=214%2C300&amp;ssl=1 214w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/requiemoftheroseking_richardvisual-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C1077&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/requiemoftheroseking_richardvisual-scaled.jpg?resize=1095%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1095w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/requiemoftheroseking_richardvisual-scaled.jpg?resize=1461%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1461w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/requiemoftheroseking_richardvisual-scaled.jpg?resize=696%2C976&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/requiemoftheroseking_richardvisual-scaled.jpg?resize=1068%2C1498&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/requiemoftheroseking_richardvisual-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C420&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/requiemoftheroseking_richardvisual-scaled.jpg?w=1826&amp;ssl=1 1826w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/requiemoftheroseking_richardvisual-scaled.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The<em> Requiem of the Rose King<\/em> manga series by Aya Kanno began in 2014 and has 15 volumes as of March 2021. Viz Media describes the story as:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Richard, the ambitious third son of the House of York, believes he is cursed, damned from birth to eternal darkness. But is it truly fate that sets him on the path to personal destruction? Or his own tormented longings? Based on an early draft of Shakespeare\u2019s&nbsp;Richard III, Aya Kanno\u2019s dark fantasy finds the man who could be king standing between worlds, between classes, between good and evil.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Sources: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hokkoku.co.jp\/articles\/tym\/364292\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hokkoku Shimbun<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/baraou-anime.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Requiem of the Rose King&nbsp;<\/em>website<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard III-based gothic manga Requiem of the Rose King is receiving an anime adaptation, with the anime set to premiere in fall 2021. A key visual depicting its protagonist Richard was released on the anime&#8217;s website. The anime is directed by Kud Wafter and Angels of Death&#8216;s Kentarou Suzuki, with Gamers!&#8216; Hiroki Uchida as series [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":16795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[14,1625,122],"class_list":["post-16793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anime","tag-anime","tag-anime-adaptation","tag-manga"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/requiemoftheroseking_richardvisual-1-scaled-e1616493677459.jpg?fit=1824%2C1024&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8n4QV-4mR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16793"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16793"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17023,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16793\/revisions\/17023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}