The official website for the television anime adaptation of Chie Shinohara‘s shōjo manga Red River (Sora wa Akai Kawa no Hotori) began streaming a full promotional video on Friday. The video offers the first full preview of the anime’s opening theme, “Akatsuki no Sora” (Dawn Sky), performed by Hiroki Nanami.
Story
Yuri, an ordinary Japanese girl, is on top of the world after acing her college entrance exam and sharing her first kiss with her childhood-friend-turned-boyfriend — until strange things start happening. Water seems to stir and churn whenever she gets near it, and one night, mysterious hands reach out from a puddle in the street and drag her under. She awakens in an ancient Middle Eastern village, is captured by armed soldiers, and is brought to a queen’s palace to be used as a human sacrifice.
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 prince of the Hittite Empire
- Tomoaki Maeno as Ilbani, aide and advisor to Prince Kail
- 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
Staff
Kōsuke Kobayashi (Waccha PriMagi!, Alice or Alice) is directing the anime at Tatsunoko Production. Yoriko Tomita (The Elusive Samurai, My Dress-Up Darling) is handling series composition, and Kenji Fujisaki (YU-NO: A girl who chants love at the bound of this world., Blood Lad) is designing the characters. Yoshihisa Hirano is composing the score, Hiroto Morishita is serving as sound director, and Team Kawadon is credited for 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.
Premiere & Manga Background
The anime is set to premiere in NTV’s “AnichU” programming block on July 7 at 25:35 (effectively 1:35 a.m. on July 8), with a BS NTV broadcast following on July 8.
Shinohara originally serialized the manga in Shogakukan’s Shōjo Comic (Sho-Comi) magazine from 1995 to 2002. Viz Media released all 28 volumes in English between 2004 and 2010, and began re-releasing the series in 3-in-1 omnibus editions in October 2024; the seventh omnibus volume is due out on April 21. The manga also inspired a stage production by the celebrated all-female Takarazuka Revue troupe in 2018.
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