The Beginning After the End Anime Reveals English Dub Cast, Wednesday Debut
The anime premiered on April 2. Crunchyroll is streaming the anime worldwide excluding Asia (but including India), and will also stream a French dub along with the English dub.The anime stars: The anime, which is billed as "Season 1," will have 24 episodes. Tapas has stated the anime will be the first anime adaptation of an American web novel and webcomic.Keitarō Motonaga (Date A Live first three seasons, Katanagatari, Jormungand) is directing the anime at Studio A-Cat. Takamitsu Kōno (Utawarerumono: The False Faces, Absolute Duo) is overseeing the series scripts. Masami Sueoka (The Strongest Magician in the Demon Lord's Army was a Human) is the character designer, and Keiji Inai (Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?, I've Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Maxed Out My Level) is composing the music. Slow Curve is producing the anime.TurtleMe is the story supervisor and executive producer. Tapas Entertainment's Mike Zhu, Kevin Nicklaus, and TurtleMe LLC's Gabrielle Luu are also executive producers on the series. Los Angeles-based, Canadian artist KALA is performing the opening theme song "KINGSBLOOD."The anime's Japanese title is Saikyō no Ō-sama, Nidome no Jinsei wa Nani wo Suru?, which is the title of the webcomic in Japan.TurtleMe's web novel series launched in English on Tapas in January 2017. Tapas describes the story: The webcomic launched on Tapas in July 2018. TurtleMe is in charge of the story and adaptation for the webcomic. The webcomic started with artist Fuyuki23, but the artist changed in June 2023 for Season 6 to Rise Entertainment. The webcomic went on hiatus in August, and returned on October 19. For the return, MGK-story is producing the webcomic.Yen Press is releasing the webcomic in print, and released the seventh volume on March 25.The franchise is available in seven languages worldwide, and has more than 61.8 million reads, with more than 36.1 million for the webcomic and more than 25.7 million for the web novel. The franchise globally grosses nearly US$500,000 monthly.Source: Crunchyroll (Liam Dempsey)
