July 15th will see the start of a new simulcast from Crunchyroll as they have picked up Dantalian no Shoka, which will be localized as The Mystic Archives of Dantalian. You can read our preview item for the series here. The series will be available in North and South America, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Africa, and the Middle East.
Plot summary: Hugh inherits a musty old mansion, along with the entire book collection contained within, from his grandfather – a bibliomaniac who once traded half his lands in exchange for a copy of a rare book. The only condition was that he also inherit the “Archives of Dantalian.”
Having arrived at the mansion to put his grandfather’s possessions in order, Hugh meets a girl of 12 or 13 quietly reading amongst the tall piles of books in the basement.
She is dressed in jet-black, and wears a lock around her neck. Her name is Dalian, and she controls the gateway to the Archives of Dantalian, where the forbidden mystic books of demonic wisdom are kept…
