The staff for the upcoming anime adaptation of Mikihisa Konishi’s Petals of Reincarnation (Reincarnation no Kaben) manga released a new trailer, key visual, additional cast members and confirmed the anime’s April 2 release date. Petals of Reincarnation will be streaming on HIDIVE starting April 2 at 12:30 a.m. ET. The video previews the opening theme song “Glitch*” by eill and ending theme song “ZERO” by Sizuk.
Newly announced cast members include:
- Katsuyuki Konishi as Xiang Yu
- Miyu Tomita as M d’Armont
- Ayumu Murase as A. Hitler
- Masaaki Mizunaka as Pol T.
- Daisuke Namikawa as Hans U. Rudel
- Takahiro Sakurai as Carlos N. Hathcock
- Shūhei Sakaguchi as M. Nostradamus
- Yoshimasa Hosoya as Itsuki Kitazuka
- Natsuki Hanae as YOSHIKI Minami
- Nobuo Tobita as Alan Smithee
Previously announced members includes:
- Shoya Chiba as Toya Senji
- Wakana Maruoka as Haito Luo Buffett
- Ayane Sakura as John V. Neumann
- Haruka Shiraishi as A. Einstein
- Kaito Ishikawa as I. Newton
- Reina Ueda as F. Nightingale
- Shugo Nakamura as Hiroshi Funasaka
- Marina Inoue as Jubei Mitsuyoshi Yagyu
Shun Kudō is directing the anime at Benten Film. Atsuo Ishino handles series composition, and Haruna Katō designs the characters, with supervision by Sayaka Ono. Kohta Yamamoto is the music composer, and Pony Canyon is producing the music. In addition, Kōsuke Murayama is the assistant director, and Kentarō Azuma is the action director. Yukio Nagasaki is the sound director.
Konishi launched the Petals of Reincarnation manga in May 2014, and the series is still ongoing. The manga is currently serialized in MAGCOMI and Monthly Comic Garden published by MAG Garden, and it is available in English in the Mangamo mobile app. What’s more, the series has 21 volumes-to-date and more than 3,000,000 copies in circulation. The anime adaptation was first announced on August 1, 2024 in Japan as part of the manga’s 10th anniversary celebration.
Petals of Reincarnation is a supernatural action manga that centers around Toya Senji, a talentless high school student who comes to discovers that talent is gained not from learning but rather a previous life—and only by self-inflicted death and the supernatural aid of the “Stem of Reincarnation.”
