The official website for the TV anime adaptation of Rocket Shokai and Nakashima723’s Scum of the Brave manga series announced the anime’s January 10, 2026, premiere and continuous two-cour run. A new trailer was also released, confirming that TOOBOE performs the opening theme song “Gun Powder,” and Mulasaki Ima performs the ending theme song “Mental Rental.”
The Scum of the Brave anime will air with a two-cour run with new breaks on NTV and affiliate channels on January 10, 2026 at 24:55 JST, or January 11 at 12:55 JST. d Anime Store and Hulu will also stream the anime.
The cast of the anime includes:
- Ryōta Suzuki as “Shinigami” Yashiro
- Akari Kitō as Aki Jogamine
- Momo Harumi as Yukine Indō
- Yumiri Hanamori as Sara Kashiwagi Pendragon
- Hinata Tadokoro as Salt Joe
- Daisuke Hirakawa as Ongakuya Ishinō
- Yasuhiro Takato as Moguri no Maruta
Shinji Ushiro directs the anime at OLM. Yoichi Kato writes and oversees the series scripts, Rika Murakami is the character designer, and Kenichiro Suehiro composes the music.
Additional staff members include:
- Color Key Artist: Naoto Kondō
- Art Director: Kazuhiro Inoue
- Director of Photography: Tsunetaka Ema
- Editing: Naoki Watanabe
- Sound Director: Takahiro Enomoto
Rocket Shokai launched the story on the Kakuyomu website in February 2016, and the series is being republished into a revised novel format with illustrations by toi8. The manga adaptation launched in 2018 on LEED Publishing’s Comic Border service.
Manga Planet is publishing the manga in English digitally. Here’s a description of the manga’s story, via Manga Planet:
In an alternate 21st century, rich mafia members can turn into “Demon Kings” through increasingly popular ether-enhancement surgery, and the bounty hunters called “Braves” are the ones called upon to take them down. Yashiro only wants the simple pleasures in life – pizza, beer, and card games. When three young Braves offer him a majestic sum to be their private tutor, he agrees solely for the money – but is it worth what he’s getting himself into?
