The official website for the Red River (Sora wa Akai Kawa no Hotori) television anime — based on Chie Shinohara‘s shōjo manga — has announced the theme song artists and a new cast member for the series’ second cours.
New Theme Songs
Nana Mizuki will perform the new opening theme “Akatsuki no Hoshi” (Morning Star), while Ryu Matsuyama will handle the new ending theme “flow feat. Yūko Andō.”
Nana Mizuki Joins the Cast as Ursula
In addition to singing the opening theme, Nana Mizuki will also voice Ursula, a false goddess who impersonates Ishtar within the story.
Full Cast
- Mirai Tachibana as Yuri
- Wataru Katō as Kail Muršili (later King Muršili II)
- Aya Uchida as Queen Nakia, queen of the Hittite Empire
- Shōya Chiba as Zannanza Hattušili, the fourth-born Hittite prince
- Tomoaki Maeno as Ilbani, Prince Kail’s aide and advisor
- Kōji Yusa as Urhi, Nakia’s servant
- Kōsuke Toriumi as Prince Mattiwaza, the Prince of Darkness of the chariot-riding Mitanni kingdom
- Tomohiro Ōno as Kikkuri, Prince Kail’s servant
- Shiki Aoki as Hadi, a daughter of the Hatti clan and elder sister to Ryui and Shala
- Natsumi Kawaida as Ryui and Misato Matsuoka as Shala, Hadi’s younger twin sisters
- Haruki Ishiya as Kash, leader of the Hittite chariot corps
- Junya Enoki as Rusafa, leader of the Hittite archer corps
- Shinichirō Kamio as Mittannamuwa, leader of the Hittite infantry corps
- Sōma Saitō as User Ramses, Kail’s greatest rival
- Shun Horie as Juda Haspasrupi, the sixth prince in line for the Hittite throne
- Nana Mizuki as Ursula, a false goddess impersonating Ishtar
Staff
The anime is produced at Tatsunoko Production under director Kōsuke Kobayashi (Waccha PriMagi!, Alice or Alice). Yoriko Tomita (The Elusive Samurai, My Dress-Up Darling) oversees the series scripts, and Kenji Fujisaki (YU-NO: A girl who chants love at the bound of this world., Blood Lad) is responsible for character design. Yoshihisa Hirano composes the score, Hiroto Morishita serves as sound director, and Team Kawadon handles sound production. Historical research is provided by Kimiyoshi Matsumura and Daisuke Yoshida, both members of the Japanese Institute of Anatolian Archaeology at the Middle Eastern Culture Center in Japan.
Broadcast & Streaming
The anime premiered on July 7 in NTV’s “AnichU” programming block at 25:35 (effectively 1:35 a.m. on July 8), and on BS NTV on July 8. Crunchyroll is streaming the series as it airs in Japan.
About the Manga
Chie Shinohara originally serialized Red River in Shogakukan’s Shōjo Comic (Sho-Comi) magazine from 1995 to 2002. The story follows Yuri, a Japanese girl whose life is upended when mysterious hands drag her through a puddle into an ancient Middle Eastern village, where she is captured by soldiers and brought to a queen’s palace as a human sacrifice. Viz Media published all 28 volumes in English between 2004 and 2010, and began re-releasing the series in 3-in-1 omnibus editions in October 2024, with the eighth omnibus arriving on July 21. The manga also inspired a stage production by the renowned all-female Takarazuka Revue troupe in 2018.
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