The staff of the Devils’ Crest anime series confirmed that it will run for two consecutive cours in a half-year run. The entire half-year run of Devils’ Crest will stream exclusively on Amazon Prime Video.
Ado performs the opening theme song “Shinka (Evolution),” and Soala performs the ending theme song “ReaL.”
The cast includes:
- Haruka Shiraishi as Yuma Ashihara
- Konomi Inagaki as Sawa Ashihara
- Yūya Hirose as Kenji Kondō
- Satomi Amano as Minagi Sano
- Yūsuke Kobayashi as Teruki Sugamo
- Maaya Uchida as Aria Misono
- Rie Murakawa as Kai Kisanuki
- Sora Amamiya as Sumika Watamaki
- Atsushi Tamaru as Shin Haizaki
- Ayumu Murase as Kakeru Niki
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.
Reki Kawahara launched the series with the first novel volume in November 2022. Kadokawa publishes the series in Japan, while Yen Press licenses the series for print in English. In 2022, Tomoe and Koroku Takano launched a manga adaptation of the novels in WIT Studio’s vertical-scrolling manga service HykeComic.
Yen Press describes the story 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!
