Aniplex unveiled the primary forged, fundamental employees, October premiere, and teaser visible for the tv anime of Kōko Shirakawa‘s Kōkyū no Karasu (A Raven within the Harem) novel collection on Thursday.

The principle forged members are:

• Saku Mizuno as Jusetsu Ryō
• Masaaki Mizunaka as Kōshun Ka
• Taku Yashiro as Eisei
• Marika Kōno as Jiujiu

Chizuru Miyawaki (Gintama TV anime, Gintama: The Ultimate) is directing the anime at BN Footage, and Satomi Ooshima (Fortune Favors Girl Nikuko) is overseeing the collection scripts. Shinji Takeuchi (Fairy Tail, Gintama) is adapting Ayuko‘s unique character designs for animation. Asami Tachibana (DARLING within the FRANXX, Haikyu!!, Moriarty the Patriot) is composing the music.

The novels’ story facilities on Uki, an imperial concubine who has by no means been known as to the emperor’s bedchambers, and maintains a singularly distinctive life inside the harem chambers. Seen by some as having the looks of an outdated lady, and a few others as a younger woman, she is knowne to make use of mysterious magic that helps with all the pieces from discovering misplaced gadgets to inflicting curses. When a circumstance makes the emperor name on her, their assembly will change historical past.

Shirakawa launched the novel collection with illustrations by Ayuko (The Earl & the Fairy) in April 2018. The sixth novel quantity shipped in August 2021. The seventh quantity will ship on April 21. On the identical day at 9:00 p.m. JST, Aniplex‘s YouTube channel will stream a teaser promotional video for the anime.

Sources: Press launch