Suikoden Anime Arrives on Crunchyroll With Six Episodes

Crunchyroll announced on Tuesday, November 10, that the first six episodes of Suikoden: The Anime (Gensō Suikoden) are now available. New episodes will arrive on Tuesdays beginning November 17.

The service offers English and Spanish subtitles, with Portuguese subtitles coming November 17. Streaming regions include:

• U.S. and Canada
• U.K. and Ireland
• Australia and New Zealand
• South Africa
• Central America
• South America

The anime also began streaming free on YouTube with English subtitles on October 6, with new episodes on Tuesdays. Its YouTube availability covers:

• North America
• Latin America
• The Caribbean
• Ireland
• Parts of Africa and the Middle East
• New Zealand and Australia

The staff listed the full regional availability in English on the anime’s X/Twitter account. Ani-One Asia has also licensed the series.

The anime debuted on Tokyo MX on October 3 at 11:30 p.m. (10:30 a.m. EDT).

The adaptation follows Konami’s Suikoden II (Gensō Suikoden II). Its hero and his friend Jowy belong to the Unicorn Youth Brigade, which fought in a prolonged border dispute.

The conflict involved the Highland Kingdom and the City-States of Jowstown. Both sides welcomed a truce signed a few months earlier, but another war continued brewing beneath the temporary peace.

The previously announced cast includes:

• Toshiki Kumagai as Riliu
• Shimba Tsuchiya as Jowy
• Ayumi Hinohara as Nanami
• Katsuyuki Konishi as Viktor
• Yūichi Nakamura as Flik
• Taku Yashiro as Luca Blight
• Chika Anzai as Jillia Blight
• Akihiro Mine as Rowd
• Tsukino Chikasada as Pilika
• Ayumu Murase as Luc
• Takeo Ōtsuka as Shu
• Yoshino Aoyama as Apple
• Masato Niwa as Mukumuku
• Jun Kasama as Culgan
• Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Seed
• Megumi Han as Leknaat
• Shōta Hayama as Gengen
• Ryūnosuke Watanuki as Rikimaru
• Saya Hitomi as Rina
• Mizutama Umino as Eilie
• Yūsuke Sasaki as Bolgan
• Jin Yamanoi as Agares Blight
• Miyuki Sawashiro as Anabelle
• Kōdai Sakai as Jess

Suikoden I&II HD Remaster Gate Rune and Dunan Unification Wars launched in March 2025, remastering Konami’s classic role-playing games Suikoden (Gensō Suikoden) and Suikoden II. Platforms include:

• Nintendo Switch
• PlayStation 5
• PlayStation 4
• Xbox Series X|S
• Xbox One
• PC via Steam

Konami released the original game for PlayStation in 1995 and its sequel in 1998. The series has five main installments and five spinoff games.

Konami is also developing Gensō Suikoden: Star Leap for mobile devices and PC. It launched for iOS and Android in Japan on August 7, with a PC release planned through Steam.

On August 7, the developers assured players that the game would release in additional languages:

• English
• French
• German
• Korean
• Chinese, both Simplified and Traditional

The anime’s production team includes:

• Yūzō Satō, credited as YUZO on the English website, directs at KONAMI animation, the game company’s anime studio.
• Ryō Hino, from NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan’s anime and music production department, serves as producer and production manager.
• Michihiro Tsuchiya (PriPara, ClassicaLoid) oversees the series scripts.
• Fumi Ishikawa of Konami Digital Entertainment receives the game character designer credit.
• Arata Suzuki of Konami Digital Entertainment provides the original drafts for the anime’s character designs.
• Ryō Yamauchi (My Master Has No Tail; Please Put Them On, Takamine-san!) designs the anime characters.
• Yoshikazu Iwanami (Psycho-Pass, Ghost in the Shell Arise) directs sound.
• Kōji Nakamura (EUREKA SEVEN AO, the live-action Ping Pong film) composes the music.

The article’s image comes from the Suikoden: The Anime official website. ©Konami Digital Entertainment / Suikoden : The Anime Project