The staff behind the television anime adaptation of Nao Iwamoto's manga The Seven Knights of the Marronnier Kingdom announced on Thursday that Ryōta Takeuchi has joined the cast. He will voice the character Saturno, who is scheduled to make his first appearance in the sixth episode of the series this Saturday.
The fantasy romance story follows seven brothers serving as knights of the Marronnier Kingdom. Situated at the center of a cluster of eight kingdoms, each brother is dispatched to a different realm as an ambassador on a quest to find their fated partner. The anime's main cast includes Kengo Takanashi as Nemukunai, Makoto Tanikawa as Hakuai, Haruki Ishiya as Atsugariya, Satoshi Inomata as Samugariya, Kiyoto Mizuno as Kemono Tsukai, Taishi Murata as Tsurugi Jiman, Reiji Kawashima as Harapeko, and Akeno Watanabe as Baribara. Show Hayami provides the narration.
Kiyoko Sayama is directing the series at J.C. Staff, with Shinzō Fujita handling both writing and script supervision. Character designs are by Yuriko Maeda, while Yoshiaki Fujisawa composes the music and Jin Aketagawa serves as sound director. The anime premiered on the NHK Educational channel on October 3 at 6:25 p.m. JST. Amazon Prime Video is streaming the series globally, including an English dub.
Viz Media licensed the manga on October 1, releasing the first two chapters digitally on that same day. Originally launched in Shogakukan's Flowers magazine in 2016, the series reached its 11th volume on June 10. The manga previously topped the list of manga for female readers in the 2018 edition of Takarajimasha's Kono Manga ga Sugoi! guidebook.
Sources: Anime News Network.