{"id":525561,"date":"2026-07-04T23:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T23:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/525561\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T23:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T23:19:08","slug":"devils-crest-anime-reveals-1st-promo-video-theme-song-artist-november-6-streaming-debut-on-amazon-prime-video-updated-with-english-subbed-trailer-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/525561\/","title":{"rendered":"Devils’ Crest Anime Reveals 1st Promo Video, Theme Song Artist, November 6 Streaming Debut on Amazon Prime Video (Updated With English-Subbed Trailer) – News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Warner Bros. Japan<\/a> revealed during its panel at Anime Expo<\/a> on Saturday the first English-subtitled promotional video, key visual, opening theme song artist, and November 6 worldwide streaming debut on Amazon Prime Video<\/a> for Devils’ Crest, the television anime<\/a> of Reki Kawahara<\/a>‘s Demons’ Crest<\/a> novel series. The trailer previews the opening theme song “Shinka” (Evolution) by Ado<\/a>. Update: Added English-subtitled trailer:<\/p>\n

The anime will star Haruka Shiraishi<\/a> as Yuma Ashihara and Konomi Inagaki<\/a> as Sawa Ashihara.<\/p>\n

Shinji Ushiro<\/a> (Y\u014dkai Watch<\/a>, Mazica Party<\/a>, Scum of the Brave<\/a>) is the anime’s chief director at Production I.G<\/a>, and Kenichir\u014d Komaya<\/a> (Nina the Starry Bride<\/a>, Kizuna no Allele<\/a>) is directing the anime. Eiji Umehara<\/a> (Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-<\/a> scripts, series composition for Suicide Squad ISEKAI<\/a>) is overseeing the series scripts, and the original novels’ illustrator Yukiko Horiguchi<\/a> is designing the characters. Y\u016bki Hayashi<\/a> (My Hero Academia<\/a>, Haikyu!!<\/a>) and Naoyuki Chikatani<\/a> (Ya Boy Kongming!<\/a> live-action series and film, I Want to Escape from Princess Lessons<\/a> anime) are composing the music.<\/p>\n

Yen Press<\/a> licensed<\/a> the novels, and it describes the story:\n<\/p>\n

\tThe 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…<\/p>\n

Kawahara launched<\/a> the series with the first novel volume in November 2022. Kadokawa<\/a> released the fourth novel volume on December 10. Yen Press released the third novel volume in English on December 30. Tomoe (art) and Koroku Takano<\/a> (script) launched<\/a> a vertical-scrolling manga adaptation of the novels in Wit Studio<\/a>‘s vertical-scrolling manga service<\/a> HykeComic in November 2022. Kadokawa released the manga’s first compiled book volume in June 2024.<\/p>\n

Kawahara is best known for his Sword Art Online<\/a> novels, which he began in 2001, and serialized from 2002 to 2008 on his website. Kadokawa’s Dengeki Bunko<\/a> label began publishing a newly-edited print version in 2009, ending the original story with the “Alicization” arc as Kawahara had wrote it on his website with the 18th volume in 2016. The novel series returned<\/a> with an all-new “Moon Cradle” story arc in 2017, and another all-new “Unital Ring” story arc in 2018, and is now in its 28th overall volume. The series has inspired novel and manga spinoffs, a television anime adaptation with several seasons, an anime film, and proposed live-action series<\/a>. Kawahara’s Sword Art Online: Progressive<\/a> spinoff novel series inspired two anime films of its own.<\/p>\n

Kawahara also penned the Accel World<\/a> 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<\/a> light novel series. Yen Press is releasing Sword Art Online, Accel World, and The Isolator: Realization of Absolute Solitude novels in English.<\/p>\n

Update: Added English-subtitled trailer and worldwide streaming. Source: Email correspondence<\/p>\n

Sources: Email correspondence, Warner Bros. Japan’s Anime Expo panel (Alex Mateo)<\/p>\n

Disclosure: Kadokawa World Entertainment (KWE), a wholly owned subsidiary of Kadokawa Corporation, is the majority owner of Anime News Network, LLC. One or more of the companies mentioned in this article are part of the Kadokawa Group of Companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Warner Bros. Japan revealed during its panel at Anime Expo on Saturday the first English-subtitled promotional video, key…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[146,85,46,411],"class_list":["post-525561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}