Destiny Unchain Online TV Anime to Star Ikumi Hasegawa

The official website for the television anime of author resn and artist Yachimoto's Destiny Unchain Online: How I Became the Crimson Devil (Destiny Unchain Online: Kyūketsuki Shōjo to Natte, Yagate "Aka no Maō" to Yobareru Yō ni Narimashita) novels revealed the show's teaser promotional video, visual, 2027 debut, main staff, and main cast member on Friday.

The anime will star Ikumi Hasegawa as Crim / Kou Mitsuki.

Kōichi Hatsumi (Deadman Wonderland, Blue Exorcist: Kyoto Saga) is directing the anime at studio Voil. Seiko Takagi (Samurai Champloo, Ergo Proxy) is overseeing the series scripts, and Masashi Kudo (Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War, Tower of God) is designing the characters. Composers include: Yūki Hayashi (My Hero Academia, Haikyu!!), Yūki Furuhashi (My Hero Academia: Vigilantes, Kaiju Girl Caramelise), and Hayato.

Kodansha's K MANGA service is publishing the manga in English. The company describes the story:

Kou Mitsuki is a gamer with god-tier skills, known online as Crim the Headhunter. Right when he starts testing his father's latest game, Destiny Unchain Online, and the new device developed for it, the bug-ridden system transforms him in into a vampire girl! Everything changes for Kou as he meets new friends and they take on the game... The ultimate gamer adventure awaits!

resn began serializing the original story in the Shōsetsuka ni Narō website in May 2020. resn later deleted his profile and subsequently removed the story from the site, but later resumed the story's serialization on Kadokawa's Kakuyomu website in June 2021. Kodansha released the first print volume of the story in November 2022, some months after Yachimoto launched the manga adaptation. Yachimoto also drew the art for the novels. The third volume shipped on May 29.

Yachimoto launched the manga in Kodansha's Magazine Pocket app in July 2022, and also launched it in Kodansha's Shōnen Magazine R digital magazine beginning in August 2022. After Shōnen Magazine R ceased publication, the manga has only been running on Magazine Pocket. Kodansha released the manga's 13th compiled book volume on August 7.

Sources: Destiny Unchain Online anime's website, Anime Hack

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