Teaser site gives first look at 9-nine- Ruler's Crown anime

A teaser site for the anime adaptation of the visual novel series 9-nine- Ruler's Crown has gone live. This teaser shares a key visual of the anime's four main heroines, confirms the scheduled 2025 debut, and lists the anime series's cast and crew. The official account has also shared the same key visual on X (formerly Twitter), which can be seen below:

Crunchyroll's reporting has translated the information on the teaser site originally in Japanese, making it available to English fans, including explaining that the series's tagline translates in English as "I will repeat - as many time it takes."

Cast and Plot

The anime adaptation of 9-nine- Ruler's Crown is produced by studio PRA (which contributed to Bleach, Bofuri and Attack on Titan), directed by Koichi Ohata (who has previous contributed art to Ikki Tousen and Burst Angel), with the original story credited to Palette, the studio that produced the original visual novel series. Additionally, the cast list confirms that the voice cast of the original visual novel series are reprising their roles. The cast list available of this writing includes:

• Atsushi Abe (A Certain Magical Index) as Kakeru Niimi

• Misato Fukuen (Sailor Moon Crystal) as Miyako Kujo

• Atsumi Tanezaki (SPY x FAMILY) as Sora Niimi

• Yuri Yamaoka (Sound! Euphonium) as Haruka Kosaka

• Akane Fujita (Eromanga Sensei) as Noa Yuuki

• Kazutomi Yamamoto (Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer) as Yoichi Fukazawa

• Tomokazu Sugita (Gintama) as Renya Takamine

• Hana Takeda (Healin' Good Precure) as Satsuki Naruse

• Satomi Arai (Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-) as Sophitia

The original 9-nine- Ruler's Crown light novel series consists of four interconnected episodes each focusing on one of the four main heroines. Published between 2019-2021, all four chapters are currently available for download on PC via Steam. Sekai Project, the series's English-language publisher, provides the following summary:

"The scene: Shiromitsugawa, a run-of-the-mill college town that has launched several failed attempts to drum up tourism and revitalize itself, including sponsoring a high-budget-but-poorly-written anime based on local folklore. A storm is about to descend on this sleepy town.

We follow Kakeru Niimi, a man who can be a bit curt at times but who has a strong sense of responsibility and a kind heart. Kakeru's ordinary life is thrown into chaos after the local shrine's sacred relic shatters. In the wake of this event, several young men and women awaken to superhuman abilities.

What was once a run-of-the-mill life in a run-of-the-mill town soon turns into a quest to track down a superpowered serial killer before they can strike again."

- Sekai Project

While it is still unknown when exactly in 20259-nine- Ruler's Crown will debut, recent announcements are giving fans a clearer picture of what's in store for the upcoming year in terms of anime debuts. We already know that Crunchyroll be streaming Honey Lemon Soda and the second season of Kaiju No. 8 which is currently in production. A fourth season of Classroom of the Elite has also been confirmed for 2025.

Keep following Anime Away for the latest news about the upcoming anime for the rest of 2024, into 2025 and beyond.