Devils' Crest Will Air for Two Consecutive Cours
The adaptation of Reki Kawahara's novels premiered worldwide on Amazon Prime Video on November 6.
Devils' Crest will run for two consecutive cours, covering half a year. The anime adapts Reki Kawahara's Demons' Crest novels.
The official website confirmed Tuesday that Devils' Crest will run for two consecutive cours, or quarters of a year. The television anime premiered worldwide on Amazon Prime Video on November 6.
The series adapts Reki Kawahara's Demons' Crest novels. Ado performs the opening theme, "Shinka" (Evolution), while Soala performs the ending theme, "ReaL."
Yen Press licenses the novels. Its synopsis follows eleven-year-old Yuuma and his sixth-grade classmates, trapped in the latest VRMMORPG, Actual Magic, where their lives are at stake.
One classmate has become a monster, and enormous beasts threaten the group. Their only hope is Valac, a demon possessing Yuuma's twin sister.
Following Valac's guidance, Yuuma and his party search for their missing friend, Nagi. An unexpected encounter awaits them.
The anime's 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
Production I.G is producing the animation. The main staff includes:
- Chief director Shinji Ushiro, whose credits include Yōkai Watch, Mazica Party, and Scum of the Brave (Yūsha no Kuzu).
- Director Kenichirō Komaya, known for Nina the Starry Bride (Hoshifuru Ōkoku no Nina) and Kizuna no Allele.
- Series script supervisor Eiji Umehara, who wrote scripts for Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- (Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu). He also handled series composition for Suicide Squad ISEKAI.
- Character designer Yukiko Horiguchi, who illustrates the original novels.
- Composer Yūki Hayashi, whose credits include My Hero Academia (Boku no Hero Academia) and Haikyu!!
- Composer Naoyuki Chikatani, whose credits include the Ya Boy Kongming! (Paripi Kōmei) live-action series and film. He also worked on the I Want to Escape from Princess Lessons (Kisaki Kyōiku kara Nigetai Watashi) anime.
Kawahara launched the novels in November 2022. Kadokawa published volume four in December 2025, the same month Yen Press released volume three in English.
Artist Tomoe and scriptwriter Koroku Takano launched a vertical-scrolling manga adaptation in November 2022. It runs on Wit Studio's vertical-scrolling manga service, HykeComic.
Kadokawa published the manga's first compiled volume in June 2024. Volumes two and three both followed on October 23.
Kawahara is best known for Sword Art Online. The novels inspired novel and manga spinoffs, several television anime seasons, an anime film, and a proposed live-action series. His Sword Art Online: Progressive spinoff novels also inspired two anime films.
He also wrote Accel World, which inspired manga adaptations, a television anime, and an anime film. His other works include The Isolator: Realization of Absolute Solitude (Zettai Naru Isolator).
Yen Press publishes Kawahara's Sword Art Online, Accel World, and The Isolator: Realization of Absolute Solitude novels in English.
Sources: Devils' Crest anime's website via ANN
