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1st 2 episodes stream in English, Japanese, French in early November
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French entertainment company Ankama announced on Thursday that it will stream the original television anime Aoki Denshō Welsh & Shedar (The Azure Legend: Welsh & Shedar) with dubs in English, Japanese, and French with subtitles in Spanish and Portuguese for free worldwide on its new YouTube channel Krosmoz. The first two episodes will begin streaming in early November, and more episodes will debut every two weeks on the channel.
The anime premiered on Friday on Tokyo MX at 9:25 p.m. JST (8:25 a.m. EDT).
The anime’s story centers on a country boy named Welsh, and a prince destined to become a king named Shedar. The two boys are from different stations in life, but their destinies intertwine when they try to end a tyrant’s plot to conquer the world.
The anime stars:
- Rikuya Yasuda as Welsh
- Yūki Kaji as Shedar
- Yūko Kaida as Zabel
- Makoto Furukawa as Joris
- Risa Kayama as Bechamel
- Wataru Takagi as Khan Karkass
- Show Hayami as Azalar
- Risa Hayamizu as Mama Caroni
Naoki Horiuchi (episode director for Kingdom second season, Black Clover, Vivy -Fluorite Eye’s Song-) is directing the anime at Studio Massket. Saori Nakashiki (Sasaki and Peeps, Tales of Wedding Rings) is designing the characters, and Nakashiki is also one of the chief animation directors alongside Yoshiaki Tsubata (Date A Live IV) and Yuki Ikeda (WAVE!! -Let’s go surfing!! movie trilogy).
Eri Suzuki (Black Summoner) is the color key artist, and Studio Massket is also in charge of anime background art. Lucas Cisterne (3D CG for The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash) is in charge of art setting, Jun Watanabe (Ascendance of a Bookworm) is directing the sound at TO Books, and Pierre-Jean Beaudoin & Jose Pavli are composing the music. Tot is credited for the original work, scripts, and drafting the series story outline. Kenichi Yamashita (MF Ghost) is in charge of the series scripts for the anime’s Japanese version. Takuya Imakado (The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash) is the series’ monster designer.
Artists Hironobu Kageyama and Masami Okui will perform the theme song “Bokura no Mirai e” (To Our Future). Kageyama will also perform the ending theme song “Omelette.” Kageyama & KUKO will perform the insert song “I’m in you.”
Ankama is an independent entertainment and digital creation group most widely known for the DOFUS tactical MMORPG, which launched in 2004. The company also published Atsushi Kaneko‘s SOIL manga, and Suguro Chayamachi‘s Togainu no Chi manga in French.
Source: Ankama Animation’s X/Twitter account
