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Dies irae Anime's Video Previews Yui Sakakibara's Opening Theme Song

The official website for the television anime Yui Sakakibara, who voices Marie in the anime and also performed the original game's theme song. The site also revealed a new visual for the anime.

DMM Pictures is also streaming a video for the anime's DVD and Blu-ray Disc home video release in Japan. The anime will have three home video volumes, slated for December 22, February 2, and July 13.

The series will premiere in Japan at night on Friday, October 6 at 1:05 a.m. (effectively Saturday morning) on have 18 episodes: 12 that will air on TV and six that will stream online.

Anime Weekend Atlanta on Friday.

The anime will feature the following mostly returning cast:

• Kōsuke Toriumi as Ren Fujii
• Yui Sakakibara as Marie
• Ayaka Fukuhara as Kasumi Ayase
• Hitomi Nabatame as Rea Himuro
• Takeshi Maeda as Shirou Yusa
• Yoshina Makino as Erii Honjou
• Junichi Suwabe as Reinhard Heydrich
• Ken Narita as Valeria Trifa
• Kishō Taniyama as Wilhelm Ehrenburg
• Kei Mizusawa as Kai Sakurai
• Kei Mizusawa as Beatrice Waltrud von Kircheisen
• Hitomi Nabatame as Isaak
• Hiroki Yasumoto as Göetz Von Berlichingen
• Yuka Inokuchi as Rusalka Schwägerin
• Asami Yaguchi as Eleonore Von Wittenburg
• Kōki Harasawa as Spinne
• Risato Habuki as Riza Brenner
• Yuki Tamaki as Wolfgang Schreiber
• Kōsuke Toriumi as Mercurius

Fukuhara is replacing PlayStation Portable port of the game. Fūri Samoto played the character in the original PC version.

GENCO is producing the series.

Junichi Suwabe and Kōsuke Toriumi's music unit Phero☆Men will perform the ending theme song.

The game and anime's story features an alternate history of World War II. On May 1, 1945 in Berlin, as the Red Army raises the Soviet flag over the Reichskanzlei, a group of Nazi officers conduct a ritual. For them, the slaughter in the city is nothing but the perfect ritual sacrifice in order to bring back the Order of the 13 Lances, a group of supermen whose coming would bring the world's destruction. Years later, no one knows if this group of officers succeeded, or whether they lived or died. Few know of their existence, and even those who knew began to away as the decades ed.

Now in December in the present day in Suwahara City, Ren Fujii spends his days at the hospital. It has been two months since the incident that brought him to the hospital: a fight with his friend Shirou Yusa where they almost tried to kill each other. He tries to value what he has left to him, but every night he sees the same dream: A guillotine. Murderers who hunt people, and the black clothed knights who pursue the murderers. He is desperate to return to his normal, everyday life, but even now he hears Shirou's words: "Everyone who remains in this city eventually loses their minds."

Light previously ran a successful crowdfunding campaign on the UNEEDZONE.jp website from May-July 2015 for the anime project, raising 96,560,858 yen ($792,000) from 5,188 backers. The original goal of the campaign was 30 million yen ($246,000).

Source: MoCa News