Devils' Crest TV Anime Reveals More Cast, Ending Theme in 2nd Promo Video
The official website for Devils' Crest, the television anime of Reki Kawahara's Demons' Crest novel series, revealed the show's second promotional video on Friday. The video reveals and previews Soala's ending theme song "ReaL."
The website also revealed two more cast members.
Atsushi Tamaru as Shin Haizaki
Ayumu Murase as Kakeru Niki
The anime will premiere worldwide on November 6 on Amazon Prime Video.
The anime will star:
- 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
Shinji Ushiro (Yōkai Watch, Mazica Party, Scum of the Brave) is the anime's chief director at Production I.G, and Kenichirō Komaya (Nina the Starry Bride, Kizuna no Allele) is directing the anime. Eiji Umehara (Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- scripts, series composition for Suicide Squad ISEKAI) is overseeing the series scripts, and the original novels' illustrator Yukiko Horiguchi is designing the characters. Yūki Hayashi (My Hero Academia, Haikyu!!) and Naoyuki Chikatani (Ya Boy Kongming! live-action series and film, I Want to Escape from Princess Lessons anime) are composing the music.
Ado performs the opening theme song "Shinka" (Evolution).
Yen Press licensed the novels, and it describes the story:
The latest VRMMORPG, Actual Magic, has sealed an entire class of sixth graders in a terrifying game of life or death. Countless dangers await eleven-year-old Yuuma and his friends. One of their classmates has been turned into a monster, and gargantuan beasts lurk around every corner. Their only hope? The demon Valac who has possessed Yuuma's twin sister. Following Valac's guidance, Yuuma and his party set out to save their missing friend, Nagi. But an unexpected encounter awaits them...
Kawahara launched the series with the first novel volume in November 2022. Kadokawa released the fourth novel volume in December 2025. Yen Press released the third novel volume in English in December 2025. Tomoe (art) and Koroku Takano (script) launched a vertical-scrolling manga adaptation of the novels in Wit Studio's vertical-scrolling manga service HykeComic in November 2022. Kadokawa released the manga's first compiled book volume in June 2024, and will release both the second and third volumes on October 23.
Kawahara is best known for his Sword Art Online novels.The series has inspired novel and manga spinoffs, a television anime adaptation with several seasons, an anime film, and proposed live-action series. Kawahara's Sword Art Online: Progressive spinoff novel series inspired two anime films of its own.
Kawahara also penned the Accel World novel series, which inspired its own manga adaptations, a television anime adaptation, and an anime film. He also penned The Isolator: Realization of Absolute Solitude light novel series. Yen Press is releasing the Sword Art Online, Accel World, and The Isolator: Realization of Absolute Solitude novels in English.
Sources: Devils' Crest anime's website, Comic Natalie
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