Ankama has announced that the upcoming anime Aoki Denshō Welsh & Shedar (The Azure Legend: Welsh & Shedar) will stream on its new YouTube channel Krosmoz in November. It will air for free worldwide with English, Japanese, and French dubbing and Spanish and Portuguese subtitles.
Ankama will make the first two episodes available in early November, with more being added every two weeks. Studio Massket will produce the series. The series creator is Tot, who is also in charge of scripts and story outline. Aoki Denshō Welsh & Shedar premiered on October 2 on Tokyo MX at 9:25 p.m. JST (8:25 a.m. EDT).
Cast members include the following:
- Yūko Kaida as Zabel
- Makoto Furukawa as Joris
- Risa Kayama as Bechamel
- Wataru Takagi as Khan Karkass
- Show Hayami as Azalar
The staff of the anime includes:
- Director – Naoki Horiuchi
- Character Designer and Chief Animation Director – Saori Nakashiki
- Chief Animation Directors – Yoshiaki Tsubata and Yuki Ikeda
- Color Key Artist – Eri Suzuki
- Art Setting – Lucas Cisterne
- Sound Director at TO Books – Jun Watanabe
- Composers – Pierre-Jean Beaudoin and Jose Pavli
- Japanese Script Supervisor – Kenichi Yamashita
Crunchyroll describes the series as follows:
The story of Aoki Densho Welsh & Shedar follows Welsh, a teenage boy from the country who loves to cook, and Shedar, a young prince who is destined to become king one day. When the two young men with very different lives are thrown together by a chance encounter, the wheels of fate begin to turn, and soon they must work together to bring about a peaceful future by stopping a cruel despot from conquering the world.
