Crunchyroll has announced that the TV anime adaptation of Kanata Yanagino and Kususaga Rin's The Faraway Paladin (Saihate no Paladin) light novel series will be joining their Fall 2021 Season Lineup.
Maki Kawase as Will (William)
Yuu Nobuta is directing the anime at Children's Playground Entertainment. Tatsuya Takahashi is overseeing the series scripts, and Koji Haneda is designing the characters.
The anime's opening theme song titled, "The Sacred Torch" is performed by H-el-ical//.
The anime's ending theme song titled, "Shirushibi" is performed by Nagi Yanagi.
The anime is set to premiere on October 9, 2021. Crunchyroll will stream the series.
OFFICIAL TRAILER 2:
MAIN CAST:
Maki Kawase as Will (William)
Katsuyuki Konishi as Blood / Yui Horie as Mary
Nobuo Tobita as Gus (Augustus) / Ayumu Murase as Menel (Meneldor)
ADDITIONAL CAST:
Aoi Yuki as Gracefeel / Hiroki Takahashi as Stagnate
NEW CHARACTER ART:
KEY VISUAL:
J-Novel Club publishes the novels in English and describes the series as:
In a city of the dead, long since ruined and far from human civilization, lives a single human child. His name is Will, and he's being raised by three undead: the hearty skeletal warrior, Blood; the graceful mummified priestess, Mary; and the crotchety spectral sorcerer, Gus. The three pour love into the boy, and teach him all they know. But one day, Will starts to wonder: "Who am I?" Will must unravel the mysteries of this faraway dead man's land, and unearth the secret pasts of the undead. He must learn the love and mercy of the good gods, and the bigotry and madness of the bad. And when he knows it all, the boy will take his first step on the path to becoming a Paladin. "I promised you. It's gonna take a while, but I'll tell you everything. This is the story of the deaths of many heroes. It's the story of how we died, and it's the reason you grew up here."
In a city of the dead, long since ruined and far from human civilization, lives a single human child. His name is Will, and he's being raised by three undead: the hearty skeletal warrior, Blood; the graceful mummified priestess, Mary; and the crotchety spectral sorcerer, Gus. The three pour love into the boy, and teach him all they know. But one day, Will starts to wonder: "Who am I?" Will must unravel the mysteries of this faraway dead man's land, and unearth the secret pasts of the undead. He must learn the love and mercy of the good gods, and the bigotry and madness of the bad. And when he knows it all, the boy will take his first step on the path to becoming a Paladin. "I promised you. It's gonna take a while, but I'll tell you everything. This is the story of the deaths of many heroes. It's the story of how we died, and it's the reason you grew up here."