The official web site and Twitter account for the tv anime of Sōsuke Tōka‘s Rating of Kings (Ōsama Rating) manga started streaming on Friday a promotional video for the primary episode.

The net manga facilities round Bojji, a deaf, powerless prince who can’t even wield a youngsters’s sword. Because the firstborn son, he strives exhausting and goals of turning into the world’s best king. Nevertheless, folks mutter about him behind his again as “a good-for-nothing prince” and “no manner he could be king.”

Bojji is ready to make his first ever good friend, “Kage” (shadow) — a literal shadow on the bottom who by some means understands Bojji effectively. (Kage is a survivor of the Kage murderer clan that was all however worn out. Now not a killer, Kage now makes ends meet by stealing.) The story follows Bojji’s coming-of-age as he meets numerous folks in his life, beginning together with his fateful encounter with Kage.

Minami Hinata performs the protagonist Bojji, and Ayumu Murase performs Kage, a shadow that turns into Bojji’s good friend.

The opposite solid members embody:

• Yuuki Kaji as Daida, Bojji’s half-brother
• Rina Satou as Hilling, Daida’s mom
• Takuya Eguchi as Domas, Bojji’s swordmaster
• Yōji Ueda as Bebin, Daida’s swordmaster
• Hiroki Yasumoto as Apis, “the king’s spear” and constant man-at-arms
• Hinata Tadokoro as Drusi, Hilling’s bodyguard and shieldbearer
• Daiki Yamashita as Hokuro, a footman that appears as much as Bojji
• Kenta Miyake as Boss, the ruler of the Boss Kingdom, and Bojji and Daida’s father
• Takako Honda as Shiina, Bojji’s late mom and the previous queen
• Maaya Sakamoto because the Magic Mirror who secretly advises Daida
• Yoshimitsu Shimoyama as Demise-har, the king of the afterlife
• Takahiro Sakurai as Demise-par, Demise-har’s little brother

The collection will premiere on October 14 at 12:55 a.m. (successfully, October 15) in Fuji TV‘s Noitamina timeslot. The anime will even air on the community’s affiliated stations. It would stream in Japan on Amazon Prime Video, one hour after it airs on tv, earlier than streaming on different providers. The anime will run for 2 steady cours (quarters of the 12 months).

Funimation will start streaming the anime with English subtitles on October 15, and it’ll additionally stream an English dub.

Yousuke Hatta (One-Punch Man episode director, Boogiepop and Others assistant director) is directing the anime at Wit Studio, with Arifumi Imai as assistant director. Taku Kishimoto (91 Days, Fruits Basket 2019, Moriarty the Patriot) is in control of the collection scripts. Atsuko Nozaki (Tokyo Magnitude 8.0, The Legend of Heroes: Trails within the Sky) is designing the characters, whereas Masaki Kawake is the sub-character designer. Each are credited as chief animation administrators. Makoto Fuchigami is the chief line director. Masaru Oshiro, Shin Ogasawara, and Nozomu Fujii are the principle animators. MAYUKO is composing the music.

Yūji Kaneko is the artwork director, whereas Kazushi Fujii is dealing with the artwork setting. Ken Hashimoto is the colour key artist. Kazuto Izumita and Noriyuki Ueda are each compositing administrators of images. Kiyoshi Hirose is modifying. Yasunori Ebina is the audio director, whereas Yasunori Ogata is dealing with sound results. Maiko Okada is credited as animation producer.

The band King Gnu (first Banana Fish ending) are performing the opening theme music “BOY.” Yama performs the ending theme music “Oz.”

Tōka has been serializing the manga on the user-submitted manga web site Manga Hack and different venues since Could 2017. Kadokawa printed the eleventh compiled e-book quantity on August 12. The manga’s circulation has reached over 1.3 million copies.

Sources: Rating of Kings anime’s web site and Twitter account, Comedian Natalie