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'Guilty Gear Strive: Dual Rulers' Unveils Additional Cast, Staff, Main Promo

by DatRandomDude
Jan 21, 8:15 PM | 17 Comments
The official website of the Guilty Gear Strive: Dual Rulers television anime revealed additional staff, cast, key visual (pictured), opening theme, and the main promotional video on Wednesday. The anime is scheduled to premiere on April 5 at 10:30 p.m. on Tokyo MX, followed by ABC TV.

Cast
Ky Kiske: Takeshi Kusao (Dragon Ball Z)
Dizzy: Kazue Fujita
Jack-O: Hiromi Igarashi (The iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls)
Elphelt Valentine: Aya Suzaki (Kill la Kill)
Ramlethal Valentine: Megumi Han ([Oshi no Ko])
Bridget: Manaka Iwami (Otonari no Tenshi-sama ni Itsunomanika Dame Ningen ni Sareteita Ken)
Baiken: Mayumi Asano (Wolf's Rain)
Johnny: Norio Wakamoto (Code Geass: Hangyaku no Lelouch)
Axl Low: Keiichi Nanba (Saint Seiya)
Leo Whitefang: Tetsu Inada (Boku no Hero Academia)
Vernon: Junichi Endou (Transformers Superlink)
Nerville Hammer: Yasuhiro Mamiya (Dr. Stone)

Staff
Assistant Director: Shinpei Ishikawa (Promare CG direction), Kouri Morita (Uma Musume: Pretty Derby - Road to the Top CG direction)
Animation Character Design: Takuya Chanohara (D4DJ First Mix), Yuuka Hachimori (BanG Dream! 2nd Season), Joseph Shin (D_Cide Traumerei the Animation)
Art Director: Kazuhiro Arai (Raise wa Tanin ga Ii)
Director of Photography: Daisuke Okumura (BanG Dream! It's MyGO!!!!!)
Editor: Hatsumi Hidaka (BanG Dream! Ave Mujica)
Color Design: Miyu Ishibashi (BanG Dream! It's MyGO!!!!! Movie)
Sound Director: Fumihiko Ootera (Honey Lemon Soda)
Sound production: Magic Capsule
Music: Ryou Takahashi (Wind Breaker)
Music Production: APDREAM

Rock band ulma sound junction (Ragna Crimson) is performing the opening theme "AXCLUSION" which is previewed in the promotional video below.

Shigeru Morikawa (Chrno Crusade) is directing the television anime at SANZIGEN. Norimitsu Kaihou (Akudama Drive) is handling the series composition and script.

The anime adapts the Guilty Gear: Strive video game. Created and designed by Daisuke Ishiwatari, Arc System Works developed the first Guilty Gear game in 1998 for the PlayStation. The latest game in the series, Guilty Gear: Strive, was released on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and PC in June 2021, followed by Xbox One and Series X/S in March 2023.

PV


Source: animate Times

17 Comments Recent Comments

@RobertBobert It adapts the first game, although it does have to cut out stuff for time.

Jan 29, 4:24 PM by malvarez1

@malvarez1 It is based on the plot of the game or should have been going like a bonus to it?

Jan 29, 11:34 AM by RobertBobert

@RobertBobert I don't think the BlazBlue anime is terrible, but it's consistently mediocre, and considering it's a fighting anime, the action scenes are mostly unimpressive.

Jan 29, 11:32 AM by malvarez1

@malvarez1 Was it bad? I missed it, although I was interested in this franchise for some time when I was tired of GG.

@Gisilfrid These are more the same characters, but some of them were Retconned for one reason or another. For example, the Testament is much more pronounced sexless compared to the his original image of non-binary male, while Bridget was rewritten from Otokonoko to a trans girl, which at one time caused a large scandal and divided the fandom into two parts.

Jan 29, 11:00 AM by RobertBobert

Hopefully this is better than the BlazBlue anime.

Jan 28, 8:37 PM by malvarez1

Much like @Gisilfrid ever since I saw GGX intro back, I also wondered if GG franchise ever gonna get a chance of anime adaptation. I remember that time I wished for.

But now, right now, I don't feel excited anymore. I see the games and some drawn materials have enough lore that such anime barely touches the surface. It may feel like a spin-off, and I wouldn't be surprised if this anime ended meh boring.

The 2007 anime, Devil May Cry added nothing of importance to me, but it felt good to see Dante in anime. If you didn't see DMC (2007) anime, would you miss anything? No. The games are enough for lore source. This is how I feel about GG-Strive anime right now. The games series would do you enough rather than this anime that seemingly gonna end on 12 or 24 disappointing episodes. Or this anime might be a prologue to the next GG game. Whatever is, the story must go further.

I personally won't expect much from the anime other than its aesthetics. Just to see Sol and others of interests in anime. Well, at least the simps got something of the anime. Dizzy, Millia, Jack-O, Ramlethal, Elphelt, Jam, etc.

Jan 28, 3:12 AM by ArabianLuffy

Always wanted a Guilty Gear anime ever since I watched the Guilty Gear X intro years back when I was a kid.

Would be nice if the art style stayed the same as the Guilty Gear X intro. I'm not familiar with most of the characters in Strive since I've only played Guilty Gear XX Reload and Isuka. Also, doesn't look like Jam is around 😭 Is it cause Ky is married to Dizzy? lol I just hope the adaptation will be good cause the PV looks cool!

Jan 23, 9:22 AM by Gisilfrid

Looks interesting!

Jan 22, 12:51 PM by Memore

@VyseLegendaire Do you have that low an opinion of Strive's plot?

Jan 22, 8:52 AM by RobertBobert

@RobertBobert Basically, following the game's plot will entail creating a horrible anime.

Jan 22, 8:50 AM by VyseLegendaire

@VyseLegendaire Why? I don't know about the original anime characters, but it looks like they are going to follow the games' plot. Or are you on that part of the fandom that thinks Ishiwatari ruined the story for modern audiences?

Jan 22, 8:48 AM by RobertBobert

It looks better than expected for a 3D work at least in terms of fluency, but still doesn't quite resemble the 3D-2D grpahic and art style ArcSys employs these days. That said, I expect a disaster on the storytelling front.

Jan 22, 8:37 AM by VyseLegendaire

Controversial feelings. On the one hand, I would really like to finally see the GG anime. On the other hand, I don’t want a good adaptation to again serve as a shield for dishonest developers, as was the case with Arcane.

@CocoaGalaxy See what the adaptations of Tekken and BlazBlue looked like

Jan 22, 3:59 AM by RobertBobert

Gonna be honest I have no idea

Hueg cast

How are they gonna fit everyone in? Or is this 24 eps?

Jan 21, 9:18 PM by CocoaGalaxy

@deg Exactly the same for me. Hope it's good!

Jan 21, 8:50 PM by Ragon_Qc

i never played the games of this because i tried when i was in college and its too hard for me but i know some of the characters of this because of the pretty designs and memes so i will watch this

Jan 21, 8:45 PM by deg

😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍DIZZY AND JACK-O😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

Jan 21, 8:26 PM by EcchiGodMamster

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