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New subtitled trailer streamed FUNimation Entertainment announced on Friday that it will offer a simuldub for the television anime adaptation of Yūki Tabata's Black Clover manga this fall. The company began streaming a new subtitled trailer to accompany the announcement. The anime will premiere in Japan on October 3 and air on TV Tokyo and its affiliates on Tuesdays at 6:25 p.m. Crunchyroll will stream the series with English subtitles starting in October, and it describes the series: In a world where magic is everything, Asta and Yuno are both found abandoned at a church on the same day. While Yuno is gifted with exceptional magical powers, Asta is the only one in this world without any. At the age of fifteen, both receive grimoires, magic books that amplify their holder's magic. Asta's is a rare Grimoire of Anti-Magic that negates and repels his opponent's spells. Being opposite but good rivals, Yuno and Asta are ready for the hardest of challenges to achieve their com

Kazuki Nakao, Miyu Kubota, Ryota Ohsaka join cast This year's 40th issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump will announce more additional cast for the television anime adaptation of Yūki Tabata's Black Clover manga on Monday. The magazine will also reveal their character designs, character designs for children at the orphanage, and a new visual for the anime. The new cast includes: Kazuki Nakao as Priest Miyu Kubota as Sister Lily Ryota Ohsaka as Sekke Bronzazza The previously announced cast includes: Newcomer Gakuto Kajiwara as Asta Nobunaga Shimazaki as Yuno Junichi Suwabe as Yami Sukehiro Kana Yūki as Noelle Silva Jun Fukuyama as Finral Roulacase Genki Muro as Magna Swing Ayumu Murase as Luck Voltia Satoshi Hino as Gauch Adlai Nana Mizuki as Vanessa Enoteca Kiyono Yasuno as Charmy Pappitson Kenichirou Matsuda as Gordon Agrippa Grey (voice cast not yet announced) Toshiyuki Morikawa as Julius Nova Chrono, the Magic Emperor Katsuyuki Konishi as Fuegole

Himawari manga centers on 3 childhood friends in rural Hiroshima This year's 29th issue of Akita Shoten's Weekly Shōnen Champion magazine revealed on Thursday that Tetsuhiro Hirakawa is launching a new manga titled Himawari (Sunflowers) in the magazine's 42nd issue on September 14. The magazine teases the manga's story as centering on Ren Minami, a second-year high school student in the rural town of Yamaai, Hiroshima, who lives an everyday life full of brawling alongside his childhood friends Kiyoharu and Kagura. Ren, Kiyoharu, and Kagura's lives are greatly changed after one day. Hirakawa posted a preview image of the new manga (pictured at right) on Friday. Hirakawa launched the Clover manga in Weekly Shōnen Champion in 2007, and ended it in October 2015. Akita Shoten published 43 compiled book volumes for the manga. The manga received a live-action drama adaptation that aired on TV Tokyo from April to June 2012. Hirakawa's manga is unrelated to two similarly named Cl

Anime premieres on October 3 The official website for the television anime adaptation of Yūki Tabata's Black Clover manga revealed three more character designs and a new visual for the series on Monday. This year's 40th issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine had revealed the cast members for the characters on Monday. Kazuki Nakao as Father Miyu Kubota as Sister Lily Ryota Ohsaka as Sekke Bronzazza The previously announced cast includes: Newcomer Gakuto Kajiwara as Asta Nobunaga Shimazaki as Yuno Junichi Suwabe as Yami Sukehiro Kana Yūki as Noelle Silva Jun Fukuyama as Finral Roulacase Genki Muro as Magna Swing Ayumu Murase as Luck Voltia Satoshi Hino as Gauch Adlai Nana Mizuki as Vanessa Enoteca Kiyono Yasuno as Charmy Pappitson Kenichirou Matsuda as Gordon Agrippa Grey (voice cast not yet announced) Toshiyuki Morikawa as Julius Nova Chrono, the Magic Emperor Katsuyuki Konishi as Fuegoleon Vermilion, captain of the Crimson Lion squad Kousuke Tor

Itowokashi previously performed themes for Twin Star Exorcists This year's 41st issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine revealed the theme song artists on Monday for the television anime adaptation of Yūki Tabata's Black Clover manga. Four-member band Kankaku Piero are performing the opening theme song "Haruka Mirai," and two-person unit Itowokashi are performing the ending theme song "Aoi Honō" (Blue Flame). Itowokashi previously performed the fourth opening theme song and the third ending theme song for the Twin Star Exorcists anime series. The anime stars: Newcomer Gakuto Kajiwara as Asta Nobunaga Shimazaki as Yuno Junichi Suwabe as Yami Sukehiro Kana Yūki as Noelle Silva Jun Fukuyama as Finral Roulacase Genki Muro as Magna Swing Ayumu Murase as Luck Voltia Satoshi Hino as Gauch Adlai Nana Mizuki as Vanessa Enoteca Kiyono Yasuno as Charmy Pappitson Kenichirou Matsuda as Gordon Agrippa Grey (voice cast not yet announced) Toshiyuki Morikawa as Juli

Anime premieres on October 3 The official website for the television anime adaptation of Yūki Tabata's Black Clover manga began streaming a new promotional video for the anime on Monday. The video previews the anime's opening song "Haruka Mirai" by Kankaku Piero. The anime stars: Newcomer Gakuto Kajiwara as Asta Nobunaga Shimazaki as Yuno Junichi Suwabe as Yami Sukehiro Kana Yūki as Noelle Silva Jun Fukuyama as Finral Roulacase Genki Muro as Magna Swing Ayumu Murase as Luck Voltia Satoshi Hino as Gauch Adlai Nana Mizuki as Vanessa Enoteca Kiyono Yasuno as Charmy Pappitson Kenichirou Matsuda as Gordon Agrippa Grey (voice cast not yet announced) Toshiyuki Morikawa as Julius Nova Chrono, the Magic Emperor Katsuyuki Konishi as Fuegoleon Vermilion, captain of the Crimson Lion squad Kousuke Toriumi as Nozel Silva, captain of the Silver Eagle squad Daisuke Namikawa as Jack the Ripper, captain of the Green Mantis squad Yu Kobayashi as Charlotte Roselei, captain

Anime premieres on October 3 Crunchyroll began streaming a third English-subtitled promotional video on Friday for the television anime adaptation of Yūki Tabata's Black Clover manga The video previews the anime's opening song "Haruka Mirai" by Kankaku Piero. The video features the same footage as the trailer streamed on the official website last week. The anime stars: Newcomer Gakuto Kajiwara as Asta Nobunaga Shimazaki as Yuno Junichi Suwabe as Yami Sukehiro Kana Yūki as Noelle Silva Jun Fukuyama as Finral Roulacase Genki Muro as Magna Swing Ayumu Murase as Luck Voltia Satoshi Hino as Gauch Adlai Nana Mizuki as Vanessa Enoteca Kiyono Yasuno as Charmy Pappitson Kenichirou Matsuda as Gordon Agrippa Grey (voice cast not yet announced) Toshiyuki Morikawa as Julius Nova Chrono, the Magic Emperor Katsuyuki Konishi as Fuegoleon Vermilion, captain of the Crimson Lion squad Kousuke Toriumi as Nozel Silva, captain of the Silver Eagle squad Daisuke Namikawa as Jack

Also hosts N. American premiere of Recovery of an MMO Junkie Crunchyroll announced on Friday that it will host the North American premieres of four anime series at the Anime Weekend Atlanta event. The anime include Black Clover, Dies irae, Urahara, and Recovery of an MMO Junkie. All four anime will screen at the event before they premiere on television in Japan in October. The event will screen the first two episodes of Recovery of an MMO Junkie and the first episode of Black Clover and Dies irae at Crunchyroll's Fall Simulcast Premiere Panel on September 29. Crunchyroll will screen the first episode of Urahara at an Urahara-specific panel on September 30. Luna Haruna will attend the Urahara panel. Crunchyroll previously announced that it would stream all four series as they aired. Anime Weekend Atlanta will be held from September 28 through October 1 at the Renaissance Waverly Hotel & Cobb Galleria. The event will also host voice actor Nobutoshi Canna and singer L

Players use cards to cast spells, use characters to defeat enemy Bandai Namco Entertainment revealed on Monday that it is developing a card battle arcade game based on Yūki Tabata's Black Clover manga titled Black Clover Grimoire Battle. The game will arrive in arcades in Japan on November 2. In the game, players use cards to use spells and characters. Players can use a party of up to five characters, and put them in offensive, defensive, or support roles. Players use attacks to lower their opponent's life, while using other characters to prevent their own life from going down. Players who lose their total life first lose the game. In the game, players use an avatar, and possess the a special Grimoire known as the "Sprout Grimoire" that is able to acquire all magical attributes, and is even able to acquire and use the magic used by characters in the series. The original manga launched in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in 2015. Shueisha published the manga's 14th

Zorori goes back in time and meets his young mother in film opening this November Voice actor Kouichi Yamadera and Momoiro Clover Z group leader Kanako Momota are performing the theme song for the Eiga Kaiketsu Zorori ZZ no Himitsu (Kaiketsu Zorori the Movie: Secret of Double Z) anime film. The single CD will ship in Japan on November 22. The song, "Yume wa Kokoro no Tsubasa" (Dreams are the Wings of the Heart), will be Momota's first theme song performance outside of a group. Yamadera is reprising his role as Zorori and Momota is voicing Zorori's young mother in the film. The film will open in Japan on November 25. Masaya Fujimori (Tribe Cool Crew, Izetta: The Last Witch) is directing the film off a script by Reiko Yoshida (K-ON!, Yowamushi Pedal) at BN Pictures and Ajiado. Kōhei Tanaka (One Piece, Sakura Wars) is composing the music. In the film's original story, Zorori is sucked into another time with Ishishi and Noshishi. There he meets his mother during her younge