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The Seven Knights of the Marronnier Kingdom Anime Casts Ryōta Takeuchi

The staff for the television anime of Nao Iwamoto's Marronnier Ōkoku no Shichinin no Kishi (The Seven Knights of the Marronnier Kingdom) manga announced on Thursday that Ryōta Takeuchi is joining the anime's cast as the character Saturno, who will debut in the anime's sixth episode on Saturday.

The fantasy romance manga centers on seven brothers who are knights of the Marronnier Kingdom. The kingdom lies in the center of a group of eight kingdoms, and each brother is dispatched to a different kingdom as ambassadors, to go on an adventure to find their fated partner.

The anime stars:

• Kengo Takanashi as Nemukunai (Insomniac)
• Makoto Tanikawa as Hakuai (Fraternity)
• Haruki Ishiya as Atsugariya (Feverish)
• Satoshi Inomata as Samugariya (Chilly)
• Kiyoto Mizuno as Kemono Tsukai (Beast-Tamer)
• Taishi Murata as Tsurugi Jiman (Swordsman)
• Reiji Kawashima as Harapeko (Hungry)
• Akeno Watanabe as Baribara
• Show Hayami as Narrator

Kiyoko Sayama (Skip Beat!, Vampire Knight, To Your Eternity seasons 2-3) is directing the anime at J.C. Staff. Shinzō Fujita (To Your Eternity seasons 1-3, The World Is Still Beautiful) is both writing and overseeing the series scripts. Yuriko Maeda (chief animation director for Requiem of the Rose King, One Punch Man TV 2) is designing the characters, Yoshiaki Fujisawa (Apocalypse Hotel, Land of the Lustrous, Love Live! School idol project) is composing the music, and Jin Aketagawa (Dr. Stone, Fire Force) is the sound director.

The anime premiered on the NHK Educational channel on October 3 at 6:25 p.m. JST (5:25 a.m. EDT). Amazon Prime Video is streaming the anime, and is also streaming an English dub.

Viz Media licensed the manga on October 1 and uploaded the first two chapters digitally on the same day.

The manga launched in Shogakukan's Flowers magazine in 2016. Shogakukan shipped the 11th volume on June 10. The manga topped the list of manga for female readers in the 2018 edition of Takarajimasha's Kono Manga ga Sugoi! (This Manga Is Amazing!) guidebook.

Sources: The Seven Knights of the Marronnier Kingdom anime's X/Twitter account, Comic Natalie