Anime
The official website for the television anime of Nao Iwamoto 's Marronnier Ōkoku no Shichinin no Kishi ( The Seven Knights of the Marronnier Kingdom ) manga revealed the anime's second trailer and additional cast members on Monday. The video reveals and previews the opening theme song "Sayonara wa Iwanai" (I Will Not Say Goodbye) by yama .
The newly announced cast members are:
Miyuki Sakurai as Eleonora
Natsumi Fujiwara as Princess Brunhild
Takehito Koyasu as Elliot
Kazuyuki Okitsu as Hugo
Daisuke Namikawa as Peregrinus
The anime's website also lists the following cast members and characters:
Hiroshi Tsuchida as King Lionel
Maki Kawase as Anna-Marie
Kyō Yaoya as Lavinia
The anime will debut on October 3 on the NHK Educational channel at 6:25 p.m. JST (5:25 a.m. EDT).
The anime stars:
Kiyoko Sayama ( Skip Beat! , Vampire Knight , To Your Eternity seasons 2-3) is directing the anime at J.C. Staff . Shinzō Fujita ( To Your Eternity seasons 1-3, The World Is Still Beautiful ) is both writing and overseeing the series scripts. Yuriko Maeda (chief animation director for Requiem of the Rose King , One Punch Man TV 2 ) is designing the characters, Yoshiaki Fujisawa ( Apocalypse Hotel , Land of the Lustrous , Love Live! School idol project ) is composing the music, and Jin Aketagawa ( Dr. Stone , Fire Force ) is the sound director.
The fantasy romance manga centers on seven brothers who are knights of the Marronnier Kingdom. The kingdom lies in the center of a group of eight kingdoms, and each brother is dispatched to a different kingdom as ambassadors, to go on an adventure to find their fated partner.
The manga launched in Shogakukan 's Flowers magazine in 2016. Shogakukan shipped the 11th volume on June 10. The manga topped the list of manga for female readers in the 2018 edition of Takarajimasha 's Kono Manga ga Sugoi! (This Manga Is Amazing!) guidebook.
Iwamoto's Kingdom of Gold, Kingdom of Water manga inspired the Gold Kingdom and Water Kingdom anime film that opened in January 2023. Seven Seas Entertainment released the original manga in English.
Sources: The Seven Knights of the Marronnier Kingdom anime's website , Comic Natalie