posted on by Anita Tai
Anime debuted on October 3
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Amazon Prime Video added the television anime of Nao Iwamoto‘s Marronnier Ōkoku no Shichinin no Kishi (The Seven Knights of the Marronnier Kingdom) manga on Saturday, with English subtitles along with an English dub.
The English dub cast and staff include:
Dub cast:
- Kevin Andrew Rivera as Insomniac
- Daniel Sean Smith as Chilly
- Chelsea Krause as Baribara
- Mariah Tzoumbas as Bruno / Brunhild
- Paul Castro Jr. as Fraternity
- Ryan Bartley as Hungry
- John Patneaude as Swordsman
- Skyler Brigmann as Feverish
- Corey Holland as Beast-Tamer
- Additional voices: Aeric Azana, Ted Evans, Ryan Bartley, Corey Holland, Tara Sands, Keith Silverstein, Kennedy Hibbert
Dub staff:
- Dubbing Studio: Deluxe Los Angeles
- Dubbing Director: Brett Calo
- Script Adapter: Djamel Bennecib
- Casting Director: Brett Calo
- Recording Engineer: Dennis D’Angelo
- Dialogue Editor: Walter Ledesma
- Re-Recording Mixer: Walter Ledesma
- Dubbing Producer: Boris Isaac
- Dubbing Coordinator: Kamen Tagalicod
The anime debuted on October 3 on the NHK Educational channel at 6:25 p.m. JST (5:25 a.m. EDT).
The anime stars:
- Kengo Takanashi as Nemukunai (Insomniac)
- Makoto Tanikawa as Hakuai (Fraternity)
- Haruki Ishiya as Atsugariya (Feverish)
- Satoshi Inomata as Samugariya (Chilly)
- Kiyoto Mizuno as Kemono Tsukai (Beast-Tamer)
- Taishi Murata as Tsurugi Jiman (Swordsman)
- Reiji Kawashima as Harapeko (Hungry)
- Akeno Watanabe as Baribara
- Show Hayami as Narrator
Kiyoko Sayama (Skip Beat!, Vampire Knight, To Your Eternity seasons 2-3) is directing the anime at J.C. Staff. Shinzō Fujita (To Your Eternity seasons 1-3, The World Is Still Beautiful) is both writing and overseeing the series scripts. Yuriko Maeda (chief animation director for Requiem of the Rose King, One Punch Man TV 2) is designing the characters, Yoshiaki Fujisawa (Apocalypse Hotel, Land of the Lustrous, Love Live! School idol project) is composing the music, and Jin Aketagawa (Dr. Stone, Fire Force) is the sound director.
Viz Media licensed the manga on Thursday and uploaded the first two chapters digitally on the same day.
The fantasy romance manga centers on seven brothers who are knights of the Marronnier Kingdom. The kingdom lies in the center of a group of eight kingdoms, and each brother is dispatched to a different kingdom as ambassadors, to go on an adventure to find their fated partner.
The manga launched in Shogakukan‘s Flowers magazine in 2016. Shogakukan shipped the 11th volume on June 10. The manga topped the list of manga for female readers in the 2018 edition of Takarajimasha‘s Kono Manga ga Sugoi! (This Manga Is Amazing!) guidebook.
Sources: Paul Castro Jr.‘s X/Twitter account, Prime Video
