A new anime adaptation is winging its way to us in 2021 with the World’s End Harem manga getting the nod. Announced in May 2020, the series is set for an October 2021 debut and Crunchyroll recently announced their pickup of the show for the season. Now, the Japanese side has revealed the theme songs for it and a new promotional video for the season. H-el-ical// is on board to perform the opening theme song “Just Do It” while EXiNA is set for the ending theme song “Ending Mirage.” We also have a new key visual below.
The series will be directed by Yuu Nobuta based on the scripts coming from Tatsuya Takahashi. Masaru Koseki is handling the character designs with Studio Gokumi and AXsiZ handling the animation production. A key visual was released as well that you can see below.
The Japanese cast includes:
- Taichi Ichikawa as Reito Mizuhara
- Haruka Shiraishi as Mira Suō
- Yō Taichi as Akane Ryūzōji
- Aya Yamane as Sui Yamada
- Keiko Watanabe as Rea Katagiri, a staff member of the UW Japan Branch
- Yurie Kozakai as Maria Kuroda, a staff member of the UW Japan Branch
- Yukina Shutō as Mahiru Mizuhara, Reito’s little sister
- Takuya Eguchi as Kyōji Hino, the first of the males to wake up in the new world
- Shizuka Ishigami as Neneko Isurugi, Kyōji’s minder
- Satomi Amano as Rena Kitayama, an actress
- Kazuki Ura as Shōta Doi, the third man to awaken
- Ayana Taketatsu as Karen Kamiya, Shōta’s minder
- Marika Hayase as Yuzuki Hanyū, the homeroom teacher in Shōta’s class
- Haruka Michii as Shunka Hiiragi, Shōta’s classmate
- Arisa Aihara as Natsu Ichijō, Shōta’s classmate
- Riho Iida as Akira Tōdō, Shōta’s classmate
- Natsumi Takamori as Chifuyu Rehn Kuroda, Shōta’s classmate, and Maria Kuroda’s younger sister
The manga comes from Kotaro Shono and has eleven volumes out so far in Japan. The property began serialization in May 2016 through the Shonen Jump+ site and app. The manga, and its spinoff series, are both being released in English through Seven Seas Entertainment under its Ghost Ship imprint.
Check out the official site and Twitter.
Plot Concept: The Man-Killer Virus: a lethal disease that has eradicated 99.9% of the world’s male population. Mizuhara Reito has been in cryogenic sleep for the past five years, leaving behind Tachibana Erisa, the girl of his dreams. When Reito awakens from the deep freeze, he emerges into a sex-crazed new world where he himself is the planet’s most precious resource. Reito and four other male studs are given lives of luxury and one simple mission: repopulate the world by impregnating as many women as possible! All Reito wants, however, is to find his beloved Erisa who went missing three years ago. Can Reito resist temptation and find his one true love?
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