The trailer for the anime Raven of the Inner Palace
The staff of the television anime of the series of novels Raven of the Inner Palace (Kōkyū no Karasu) by Kōko Shirakawa has started streaming the show's second promotional video. The video reveals and previews the opening and closing themes. Queen Bee plays the opening theme "Mysterious" and krage plays the closing theme "Natsu no Yuki" (Summer Snow).
The staff also revealed that Mana Hirata will play Ishiha and Queen Ueda will play Unkajō.
The anime will premiere October 1 at 23:30 pm (10:30 am EDT) on Tokyo MX, Tochigi TV, Gunma TV and BS11 channels and will also air on Kansai TV. Aniplex Online Fest 2022 will screen part of the first episode on September 24 and voice actress Saku Mizuno will appear at the event.
Key cast members include:
Saku Mizuno as Jusetsu Ryō
Masaaki Mizunaka as Koshun Ka
Taku Yashiro in the role of Eisei
Marika Kono as Jiujiu
Nobunaga Shimazaki as Onkei
Nobuhiko Okamoto as Tankai
Chizuru Miyawaki (Gintama TV anime, Gintama: The Final) directs the anime at BN Pictures and Satomi Ooshima (Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko) oversees the scripts for the series. Shinji Takeuchi (Fairy Tail, Gintama) is adapting Ayuko's original character designs for animation. Asami Tachibana (DARLING in the FRANXX, Haikyu !!, Moriarty the Patriot) is composing the music.
The story of the novels centers on Uki, an imperial concubine who has never been called into the emperor's bedrooms and maintains a singularly unique life within the chambers of the harem. Seen by some as looking like an old woman and others as a young woman, she is known to use mysterious magic that helps with everything from finding lost objects to inflicting curses. When a circumstance causes the emperor to call her, their meeting will change history.
Shirakawa launched Ayuko's (The Earl & the Fairy) series of novels with illustrations in April 2018. The seventh and final volume was released on April 21st.
Seven Seas Entertainment announced at Anime Expo 2022 that it will release the series of novels in English next year.
