News Reporting

Assassin’s Pride Anime Gets Second Trailer, New Visual

Written By Samantha Ferreira September 5, 2019

Earlier today, the official Assassin’s Pride anime website updated with a new teaser trailer and a key visual. We break the details down below.

Trailer

The two-minute trailer focuses on the show’s action scenes, and previews character dialogue. Theme song Share the Light by Run Girls, Run! kicks in as a background track at the 1:05 mark.

Key Visual

The image features Kufa holding Melida protectively. Behind them, Rosetti and Elise loom.

Assassin’s Pride hits Japanese TV on October 10. The full premiere schedule is as follows (all times JST):

AT-X: 10/10/2019 at 23:30 (10/10/2019 at 11:30PM)
Tokyo MX: 10/10/2019 at 24:00 (10/11/2019 at Midnight)
Sun TV: 10/10/2019 at 24:30 (10/11/2019 at 12:30AM)
BS Nittele TV: 10/10/2019 at 25:00 (10/11/2019 at 1:00AM)

Kazuya Aiura is directing the title at EMT Squared, with Maho Yoshikawa (Yona of the Dawn, Amnesia) providing character designs. Deko Akao (Anonymous Noise, Do You Love Your Mom and Her Two-Hit Multi-Target Attacks?) is in charge of series composition.

The confirmed voice cast includes:

Melida Angel: Tomori Kusunoki
Kufa Vampir: Yuuki Ono
Nerva Martillo: Ayane Sakura
Salacha Schicksal: Azumi Waki
Mule la Mor: Maaya Uchida
Rosetti Pricket: Marina Yabūchi
Williams Jin: Tatsuhisa Suzuki
Father: Toshiyuki Morikawa
Elise Angel: Yui Ishikawa

Kei Amagi and illustrator Nino Ninomoto’s Assassin’s Pride launched in 2016 under Fujimi Shobo’s Fujimi Fantasia Bunko imprint. Nine volumes of the series have shipped to stores to date, with the latest hitting retailers on January 19, 2019.

Amagi and illustrator Yoshie Katō kicked off a manga adaptation of the work in the pages of Shueisha’s Ultra Jump magazine in May 2017. Four volumes have been released to date, with the latest shipping to retailers on June 19, 2019.

Manga resource Baka-Updates describes the title as:

In the world where only the aristocrats have the power to fight the monster – mana, a youth named Kufa is dispatched as a tutor to find Mareida’s talent, a nuisance girl born in a duke’s family. If she is not talented, assassinate her. – that, is the dark side of his task…

Source: Comic Natalie

Filed Under: News Reporting

Tag(s): assassin's pride, key visual, promo video

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Samantha Ferreira is Anime Herald’s founder and editor-in-chief. A Rhode Island native, Samantha has been an anime fan since 1992, and an active member of the anime press since 2002, when she began working as a reviewer for Anime Dream. She launched Anime Herald in 2010, and continues to oversee its operations to this day. Outside of journalism, Samantha actively studies the history of the North American anime fandom and industry, with a particular focus on the 2000s anime boom and bust. She’s a huge fan of all things Sakura Wars, and maintains series fansite Combat Revue Review when she has free time available. When not in the Anime Herald Discord, Samantha can typically be found on Bluesky.

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