Daemons of the Shadow Realm Anime Premieres in April 2026

A new English subtitled trailer was released during New York Comic Con 2025.

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Crunchyroll and Aniplex announced the two-cour anime adaptation of Hiromu Arakawa’s Daemons of the Shadow Realm (Yomi no Tsugai) manga will premiere in April 2026. Crunchyroll will stream the Daemons of the Shadow Realm anime, and a new English subtitled trailer was released during Crunchyroll’s New York Comic Con 2025 industry panel.

The cast of the anime includes:

  • Kenshō Ono as Yuru
  • Yume Miyamoto as Asa
  • Yūichi Nakamura as Dera
  • Misaki Kuno as Gabu-chan

Masahiro Andō, known for his work on Sword of the Stranger, is directing the anime at Bones Film. Noboru Takagi is handling the series scripts, and Nobuhiro Arai is in charge of character design. Kenichiro Suehiro is composing the music. Crunchyroll will stream the anime.

Additional staff members include:

  • Daemon Design: Kōji Sugiura, Yoshiyuki Itō
  • Color Setting: Yukari Goto
  • Art Director: Tatsurō Ōnishi
  • Art Setting: Shūhei Tada, Nariyuki Ogi
  • CG Director: Mizuki Sasaki
  • Composite Director: Eiei Chō
  • Editor: Ayumu Takahashi
  • Sound Director: Kazuhiro Wakabayashi
  • Sound Effects: Kōsuke Ogata

Hiromu Arakawa launched the Daemons of the Shadow Realm manga in Square Enix’s Monthly Shonen Gangan magazine in December 2021. Square Enix published the manga’s 10th volume on July 11.

Lastly, here’s an overview of the manga series, via Square Enix:

Hiromu Arakawa, award-winning manga creator of the best-selling smash hit Fullmetal Alchemist, draws readers into an intricate new web of magic, intrigue, and life-or-death stakes! In a world where certain humans command mighty supernatural duos called Daemons, it is the birthright of “the children who sunder day and night”—twins Yuru and Asa—to rule over these powerful entities.

Separated from a young age and unaware of the truth of their birth, brother and sister must fight to make their way back to each other, claim their birthright, and save the world…

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