GUILTY GEAR STRIVE: DUAL RULERS revealed the opening video, featuring the theme song by ulma sound junction. The anime will premiere on April 5, with Crunchyroll previously confirming that it will stream the anime worldwide, excluding Japan, Korea and China. The opening theme song’s title is “AXCLUSION,” and it was previously also featured in the main trailer.
You can watch the opening video for the anime below.
The anime was announced over 26 years after the first game release, and the game was teased with: Behind two of the series’ most iconic characters, SOL BADGUY and SIN KISKE, is a mysterious girl… Who could she be? The first teaser trailer was shown in July 2024. The voice cast includes:
- Issei Miyazaki as Sin Kiske
- Joji Nakata as Sol Badguy
- Yui Ishikawa as Unika
- Tomokazu Sugita as Narrator
- Takeshi Kusao as Ky Kiske
- Kazue Fujita as Dizzy
- Hiromi Igarashi as Jack-O’ Valentine
- Aya Suzaki as Elphelt Valentine
- Megumi Han as Ramlethal Valentine
- Manaka Iwami as Bridget
- Mayumi Asano as Baiken
- Norio Wakamoto as Johnny
- Keiichi Nanba as Axl Low
- Tetsu Inada as Leo Whitefang
- Junichi Endo as Vernon
You can see more of the characters in the main visual below.
The anime will be directed by Shigeru Morikawa, who previously worked as the director on Argonavis Movie: Ryusei no Obligato and Argonavis Movie: Axia. Norimitsu Kaiho (Akudama Drive) will be in charge of the series composition, while the character designer from the games, Daisuke Ishiwatari, is also credited for the original character design for the anime. Studio Sanzigen is in charge of the animation production.
Sanzingen is known for its work in CG animation, and its previous work includes the original music video for the protagonist Sol Badguy’s theme song “Find Your One Way.”
The official synopsis for the GUILTY GEAR STRIVE: DUAL RULERS anime:
After the decline of the once robust fields of science and technology, a new energy source known as magic fuels the modern era. Humanity creates forbidden biological weapons: Gears. Those Gears eventually stand against humanity in a rebellion.
Although they manage to overcome in the struggle for survival known as the Crusades, humanity’s losses are so great that even after several decades pass, their emotional wounds remain unable to fully heal.
Sin Kiske, the child of a human and a Gear, heads to his father Ky and mother Dizzy’s wedding ceremony. Their wedding breaks the ultimate taboo: a union between a human and a Gear. Even with the world at peace, it took many years for such a ceremony to come to fruition.
Despite the complex array of emotions surrounding it, the wedding ceremony is met with blessings. When suddenly, a mysterious girl appears… The fated child inheriting Gear blood–and the mysterious girl who despises Gears. Their meeting would shake the world.
Source: Arc System Works Official YouTube Channel
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