The official website for Seven Knights Revolution: Eiyū no Keishōsha (The Hero’s Successor), the television anime adaptation of Netmarblesay Seven Knights smartphone RPG, unveiled another 12 members and a visual image for the anime on Monday.
The new cast includes: (namever Romanization is not confirmed)
The anime will premiere in April and will star:
Daiki Yamashita like Nemo
Hibiku Yamamura like Faria
Kazuya Ichikawa (Monster saves the animation, The world ends with you the animation) directs the anime HOUSE MOVIES and Domerica. Ukyō Kodachi (Lord El-Melloi II’s Case Files: Rail Zeppelin Grace Note series composition, Boruto: Naruto Next Generations manga’s storyteller) oversees the series, Arisa Matsuura (Clean Freak! Aoyama kun) is the character designer, and Yoshiaki Fujisawa (The eccentric family, Love Live! School estate project) is composing the music. Seven Knights Revolution is attributed to the original work.
In the story of the anime, there were once many heroes who saved the world from destruction. Time has passed since then, and young men and women who have the title ‘Successor’ awaken powers of the heroes of old and are entrusted with the fate of the world. The “Seven Knights” are a group of top successors. Among the seven knights is a young woman named Faria, who is fighting the troops of destruction. In the midst of this battle, she rescues a young man named Nemo. Nemo then awakens the power of a successor, but no one knows of the hero whose powers he inherited.
This game was launched in 2016 for iOS and Android devices in Japan. Netmarble also released the smartphone game in English. The company describes the story:
On the day that the sun did not want to rise
The God of destruction divided his power into twelve pieces.
and distribute it to twelve chosen leaders on earth.
Among them, Seven were chosen in the land of Asgard.
Their deadly forces threatened each other, and war seemed inevitable.
Goddess Ellena took pity on the world and decided to end the war by choosing a boy she considered worthy, and donating her own powers to him that were hidden deep in his consciousness to prevent abuse.
After Evan, the son of a general, finds out about his adopted past, he embarks on an adventure to search for his real parents, along with a necklace that his birth parents gave him as the only clue.
During his adventure, Evan came across a city after it was destroyed by the Leprechauns. and rescued a girl named Karin from danger.
After Karin loses both her parents to the raids, she decides to leave her town to start her own adventure with Evan.
Netmarble released a Nintendo Link game in the franchise titled Seven Knights -Time Wanderer- (Seven Knights: Jikū no Tabibito) in English and Japanese on 5 November. Netmarble released a Seven Knights II smartphone game in South Korea. Netmarble working on a new game in the franchise titled Seven Knights Revolution which will be released this year.
Sources: Seven Knights Revolution: Eiyū no Keishōsha website of anime, Comic Natalie