Image source: Red Riveranime’s website, Comic Natalie — via Anime News Network
The official website for the television anime of Chie Shinohara's Red River (Sora wa Akai Kawa no Hotori) shōjo manga announced two new cast members for the anime on Monday. The new cast members include:
Sōma Saitō as User Ramses, a free-spirited Egyptian general, andKail's greatest rival
Shun Horie as Juda Haspasrupi, the sixth prince in line for the Hittite throne, who has long looked up to Kail, and is suspicious of his motherNakia
The anime premiered in NTV's "AnichU" programmingblock on July 7 at 25:35 (effectively, July 8 at 1:35 a.m.), and on BS NTV on July 8. Crunchyroll is streaming the anime as it airs in Japan.
The cast includes:
Kōsuke Kobayashi (Waccha PriMagi!, Alice or Alice) is directing the anime at Tatsunoko Production. Yoriko Tomita (The Elusive Samurai, My Dress-Up Darling) is overseeing the series scripts, and Kenji Fujisaki (YU-NO: A girl who chants love at the bound of this world., Blood Lad) is designing the characters. Yoshihisa Hirano is composing the music, while Hiroto Morishita is the sound director. Team Kawadon is credited for sound production. Hiroki Nanami is performing the anime's opening theme song "Akatsuki no Sora" (Dawn Sky).
Historical researchers include Kimiyoshi Matsumura andDaisuke Yoshida, who are members of the Japanese Institute of Anatolian Archaeology as part of the Middle Eastern Culture Center in Japan.
Viz Media describes the manga's first volume:
Viz Media started releasing the manga in English in 2004, and released all 28 volumes between 2004 to 2010. The company then started re-releasing the manga in 3-in-1 omnibus editions in October 2024, and released the seventh omnibus volume on April 21.
Shinohara originally serialized the manga from 1995 to 2002 inShogakukan's Shōjo Comic (Sho-Comi) magazine.
The manga inspired a stage play by the famed all-female Takarazuka Revue troupe in 2018.