Warner Bros. Japan has revealed a teaser promotional video for the anime adaptation of Reki Kawahara’s Demons’ Crest novel series. The video also reveals the main cast and staff, as well as the anime’s 2026 premiere.
Check out the video below:
The anime will star Haruka Shiraishi as Yuma Ashihara and Konomi Inagaki as Sawa Ashihara. Shinji Ushiro is the anime’s chief director at Production I.G, and Kenichirō Komaya is directing the anime. Eiji Umehara is overseeing the series scripts, and the original novels’ illustrator Yukiko Horiguchi is designing the characters. Yūki Hayashi and Naoyuki Chikatani are composing the music.
Kawahara launched the series with the first novel volume in November 2022. Kadokawa released the fourth novel volume on December 10. Yen Press released the third novel volume in English on December 30. In 2022, Tomoe and Koroku Takano launched a manga adaptation of the novels in Wit Studio’s vertical-scrolling manga service HykeComic.
Yen Press releases the novel in English and describes it as follows:
Sixth-grader Yuuma Ashihara and his twin sister, Sawa, are playing Actual Magic , a brand-new virtual reality MMORPG, when it suddenly begins fusing with the real world. Amid all the chaos and confusion, it becomes clear that death is lurking around every corner, including when Yuuma runs into his classmate Sumika. Before, she was one of the cutest girls in his class, but she’s since undergone a terrible metamorphosis—into one of the game’s horrifying monsters!
Kawahara is a household name in the anime space the brilliant author penned both the Sword Art Online and Accel World novel series, both of which have been turned into successful anime. Yen Press releases both novels in English.
