Yomiuri Telecasting Corp. (YTV) announced today that the television anime The Vermilion Mask will premiere in October on Crunchyroll.

Alongside the premiere date, YTV released a second main PV, revealed the artists behind the opening and ending themes, unveiled a second key visual and announced six additional cast members.

Based on the manga by Nabana Naba and original creator Dr. Poro, serialized in Shonen Gahosha’s Young King OURs, The Vermilion Mask follows Peru d’Arrest, a young mask maker’s apprentice who sets out to destroy every mask his late master ever made.

Second Main PV Set to MAN WITH A MISSION and yutori
The opening theme is MAN WITH A MISSION’s “Firestarter,” and the ending theme is yutori’s “Koe.” Both tracks score the second main PV, released today.

The trailer opens on the “night of tragedy” that set the story in motion, then follows Peru d’Arrest (voiced by Taihi Kimura) as he confronts his guilt and fights across the city’s rooftops, switching between spider, chameleon, cat and other masks to take on one formidable foe after another.

“I’m the worst type of villain there is. To prevent tragedy from ever happening again, I’ll destroy all of my master’s masks,” Peru vows in the trailer.

Artist Comments

Kamikaze Boy (MAN WITH A MISSION)

“We pictured a powerful song, one that could give a push to the adventure of these young people who have been saddled with such a cruel fate, and that is how we completed ‘Firestarter.’

If it can fire up the hearts of everyone watching over that adventure alongside us, that would make us very happy!! All of us wolves are looking forward from the bottom of our hearts to the adventure that unfolds as Peru and the others grow!! (「゜Д゜)「 ROAR!”

yutori

“We’re yutori, and we wrote ‘Koe,’ the ending theme, especially for the TV anime The Vermilion Mask.

You can’t erase the past, but the act of carrying it and still trying to move forward is surely something that overlaps with our own everyday lives. We took the feelings Peru can’t put into words and worked them into the song in yutori’s own way.

We hope you’ll enjoy ‘Koe’ along with The Vermilion Mask.”

Cast

• Peru d’Arrest: Taihi Kimura
• Sonarue Maywood: Yuuki Yamamoto
• Mok Sharib: Kazuki Ura
• Gouon: Takanori Hoshino
• Totoque: Wataru Komada
• Zent: Junya Enoki
• Gaston: Kazuhiko Inoue
• Mask of the Warrior God: Akio Otsuka
• Hien: Kenji Nojima
• Lasgarl: Aoi Koga
• Clown: Yuki Shin
• Rinne: Akihisa Wakayama
• The Mask of Necromancy: Aya Endo
• Master: Yui Horie
• Opening Theme：MAN WITH A MISSION「Firestarter」
• Ending Theme：yutori「Koe」

Original Title Information

• Manga: Nabana Naba   Original Work: Dr. Poro
• The Vermilion Mask (serialized in “Young King OURs” from Shonen Gahosha)
• Volumes 1-9 now on sale.

Staff

• Director: Tetsuaki Watanabe
• Assistant Director: Gai Hazako
• Series Composition: Daisuke Ohigashi
• Story Supervision: Dr. Poro, Nabana Naba
• Character Design / Chief Animation Director: Hisashi Higashijima
• Sub Character Design: Nozomi Shimazaki
• Mask & Creature Design: Yoshiki Kuga
• Art Director: Miu Miyamoto
• Art Setting: studio RUFUS
• Color Design: Miyuki Kibata
• CG Director: Kanji Oshima
• Mask Effects & Motion Graphics: Toshiyuki Yamashita, Rina Mitsuzumi (Hyperbole)
• Director of Photography: Nanami Yamawaki (Animo Caramel)
• Editing: Mai Hasegawa (editz)
• Sound Director: Fumiyuki Goh
• Sound Effects: Rei Ueno
• Music: Alisa Okehazama
• Animation Production: One Double-O studio

Source: Press Release