【Assassins’ Pride】The hero is an assassin who kills the heroine! Fantasy in a cruel world【 2019 Autumn Anime】

Assassin’s Pride will begin airing on AT-X, TOKYO MX, and other stations in October 2019.
The online distribution will be exclusive to U-NEXT and will start on October 10.

The company that will be producing the animation is EMT Squared.
It is a company that often produces anime based on manga, but in 2018, it produced the original novel “Hyakuren no Haou to Seihou no Senso Otome”.

The director is Kazuya Aiura.
He is the assistant director of the web animation “7SEEDS”, and this will be his first work as a director.

The series composition is by Deko Akao of “Fluffy Wing Witch” and “Frame Arms Girl”.
Character design will be done by Maho Yoshikawa of “AMNESIA: Amnesia” and “Yona of the Dawn”.

The cast has been chosen from a wide range of newcomers to the most popular voice actors.

The role of Kufa is played by Yuki Ono, who is popular for his roles in “JoJo” and “Kuroko no Basket”.
In 2019, he plays Kouga Ookami in “Ansta” and other roles.

Merida will be played by 19-year-old newcomer Tomori Kusunoki.
She was chosen to play Ren, the main character in “SAOAGGO”, and has been steadily building her career since then, playing Setsuna Yuuki in “Squasta”.

Ellie will be played by Yui Ishikawa, known for her roles as Mikasa in “Shingeki no Kyojin” and Violet in “Violet Evergarden”.
In 2019, her role as Cururu in “Kemofure 2” attracted a lot of attention.

The role of Roze will be played by Marina Yabuuchi, who plays Xavier in the game Monster Strike.
It seems that this will be her first time as a main character in an anime.

Nerva will be voiced by Ayane Sakura, a successful voice actress known for her roles as Cocoa in “Gochiusa” and Iroha Isshiki in “Ore-Gail”.
In 2020, she will be playing the role of Kaede Miyai, a new character in “SHIROBAKO the Movie.

In addition, Marei Uchida will be playing the role of Mule-La-Mole, a mischievous young lady; Azumi Waki will be playing Sarasha-Sixar, a shy young lady; Tatsuhisa Suzuki will be playing William Jin, a synthetic lancanthrope of the “Corpse Demon”; and Tomoyuki Morikawa will be playing the Commander of the Byakuya Cavalry.

Boom in assassination and espionage?

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Currently, there is a wave of assassination and espionage stories in the manga and romance industry.

There have always been manga with assassins on the side of the main character, and although the word assassin is not used, “Golgo 13” and “City Hunter” can be said to fall into this category.
Since 2010, Jump’s “Assassination Classroom” has been a big hit, and “Devil’s Riddle” and “Akame ga Zaruru! have also been made into anime.
In a lighter vein, “Kill Me Baby” also became popular.

The word “assassin” seems to have a chuunibyou charm to it, and “assassin” is often used as a tag or title in “Shosha ni Narou” (Let’s Become Novelists).
The demand for assassins seems to be quite high.

On the other hand, spy stories are even more prominent, with “SPY x FAMILY,” which started in 2019, becoming a big hit from the first volume.
Both spies and assassins are the main characters in this work.
Yozakura-sanchi no Daisakusen,” which began serialization in Jump, has also been well received and has maintained a high to mid-ranking listing order ever since it began serialization.
As for anime, “Joker Game” and “Princess Principal” have become hits.

The main feature of “Assassin’s Pride” is that the main character is an assassin, as the word “assassin” in the title suggests, but he is also a spy who hides his purpose and acts as Merida’s tutor.
Therefore, if the film is well received as a standard “assassination story” and becomes known as a “spy story,” which is currently gaining momentum, it is possible for it to become a hit.
It is also possible that this film will be a hit, which will further draw attention to the genre and create a boom.

Summary

Overall, it’s a serious work, but there are some scenes that alleviate the situation, and the heroine Merida and other cute girls appear, and there are also some soft sex scenes, so I think it will be an anime that won’t disappoint those who like novels!
There are also quite a lot of action scenes, and it’s a well-done story of Merida’s growth, so I’m looking forward to seeing how it will be received by anime fans!