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Noblesse Anime Reveals New Visual, More Cast, October 7 Premiere in Japan

The official website for the manhwa revealed on Monday a new visual, additional cast and staff, and the October 7 premiere in Japan.

The newly announced cast are:

Akihisa Wakayama as Regis K. Landegre

Ai Kayano as Seira J. Loyard

Masatomo Nakazawa as Tao

Takeo Ōtsuka as Takeo

The newly announced staff are:

• Art Directors: Takanori Tanaka
• Assistant Art Director: Yoshiki Matsumura (Studio Pablo)
• Prop Design: Taiyō Yoshida
• 3D: I.G3D
• 3D Director: Shiguma Morimoto
• Color Design: Kumiko Yusa
• Color Design Assistant: Yumi Kitani
• Photography: Typhoon Graphics
• Director of Photography: Hideki Imaizumi
• Sound: Glovision
• Sound Director: Tōru Kanegae
• Music: Shun Narita
• Editing: Jay Film)

The anime will premiere on BS11 at 25:30 (effectively October 8 at 1:30 a.m.).

While Crunchyroll told ANN the anime will premiere on October 6 at 9:00 a.m. EDT, Crunchyroll tweeted that the anime will premiere on October 5. The stream will be available in North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, and the CIS.

The anime's previously announced cast includes:

• Tarusuke Shingaki as Cadis Etrama di Raizel
• Daisuke Hirakawa as Frankenstein
• Kosuke Onishi as M-21
• Ryōta Iwasaki as Yusuke Tashiro
• Yōhei Hamada as Manabu Kase

Blood+) is handling character designs and chief animation supervision.

Kim Jae-joong will OH MY GIRL will perform the ending theme song "Etoile."

Crunchyroll describes the anime's story:

Raizel awakens from his 820-year slumber.

He holds the special title of Noblesse, a pure-blooded Noble and protector of all other Nobles. In an attempt to protect Raizel, his servant Frankenstein enrolls him at Ye Ran High School, where Raizel learns the simple and quotidian routines of the human world through his classmates.

However, the Union, a secret society plotting to take over the world, dispatches modified humans and gradually encroaches on Raizel's life, causing him to wield his mighty power to protect those around him…

After 820 years of intrigue, the secrets behind his slumber are finally revealed, and Raizel's absolute protection as the Noblesse begins!

WEBTOONS started announced that Jeho Son and Kwangsu Lee are "preparing another story and an extension."

Noblesse: Awakening. Crunchyroll is streaming the anime.

Update: Crunchyroll confirmed with ANN on Thursday that the service will begin streaming the series on October 6 at 9:00 a.m. EDT. Crunchyroll's previous Twitter posts were inaccurate.

Source: Noblesse anime's website