The official web site for the tv anime of Aya Kanno‘s Requiem of the Rose King (Bara-Ō no Sōretsu) manga revealed 4 extra forged members and the January 9 premiere date for the anime on Monday.

The brand new forged members embody:

Sayumi Suzushiro as Woman Anne Neville

Ayumi Mano as Woman Isabel Neville

Shizuka Itou as Queen Elizabeth

Aya Hisakawa as Cecily Neville

The anime will premiere on Tokyo MX, Solar TV, and KBS Kyoto on January 9, and on BS11 on January 11. (Tokyo MX will air it first at 10:30 p.m. in Japan or 8:30 a.m. ET.)

The anime will air for 2 consecutive cours (quarters of a yr), for a half-year steady run. The anime was beforehand slated to premiere this fall, however the manufacturing committee introduced a delay in July.

The anime stars:

• Mitsuki Saiga as Richard
• Hikaru Midorikawa as Henry
• Sho Hayami as Richard, Duke of York
• Kousuke Toriumi as Edward
• Yasuaki Takumi as George, Duke of Clarence
• Satoshi Mikami because the Earl of Warwick
• Satoshi Hino as William Catesby
• Sayaka Ohara as Queen Margaret
• Kōhei Amasaki as Edward of Westminster
• Houchu Ohtsuka as Narrator

Kentarō Suzuki (Angels of Loss of life, Kud Wafter) is directing the anime at J.C. Employees, and Hiroki Uchida (Days of Urashimasakatasen, Players!, Merc Storia: The Apathetic Boy and the Lady in a Bottle) is supervising and writing the collection scripts. Chikara Hashizume is designing the characters. Further employees members embody Kentaro Izumi (A Sure Scientific Railgun T) because the artwork director, Mayumi Tanahashi as the colour designer, Akihiro Takahashi as director of images, Yoshikazu Iwanami because the audio director, Kou Otani because the music composer, and Lantis because the music producer.

Voice actor Makoto Furukawa will carry out the opening theme tune “Ware, Bara ni Insu.” Arika Takarano from Ali Challenge is writing the tune. ZAQ will carry out the ending theme tune “Akumu.”

The manga’s darkish fantasy story adapts Shakespeare’s Richard III. Viz Media licensed the manga, and it describes the story:

Richard’s father, the patriarch of the Home of York, is poised to turn into king of medieval England throughout the bloody Wars of the Roses. However simply as success is imminent, he’s abruptly minimize down. Plunged into despair, Richard acts out in revenge and should face a strong and delightful new enemy.

Kanno (Otomen) launched Requiem of the Rose King in Akita Shoten‘s Month-to-month Princess journal in October 2013, and the collection is slated to finish in three chapters. A novel adaptation by Yō Makusu will ship on December 15.

Kineko Abekawa launched a derivative manga titled King of Idol Bara-Ō no Gakuen (King of Idol Rose King Academy) in Month-to-month Princess on January 4.

Sources: Requiem of the Rose King anime’s web site, Comedian Natalie