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The Tropics Anime YouTube channel began streaming the television anime of Fuurou's The Frontier Lord Begins with Zero Subjects (Ryōmin 0-nin Start no Henkyō Ryōshu-sama) light novel series in India on July 31. The channel is also streaming theDeath Note anime as a daily upload.
The anime debuted first on Amazon PrimeVideo in Japan on July 3, before airing on television on July 10. Anime Times is also streaming the anime on Amazon Prime Video in India as it airs in Japan.
Kenichi Imaizumi (Kingdom season 3-6) is directing the anime at animation studio42, and Kunihiko Okada (The Demon Sword Master of Excalibur Academy, From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman, Apocalypse Bringer Mynoghra) is overseeing the series scripts. Keiichi Tsuboyama (Fireworks, Should We See it from the Side or the Bottom? animation director) is designing the characters.
Japanese-Korean pop-rock band CROWN HEAD performs the opening theme song "Wonder," and Kaya performs the ending theme song "Hoshi Furu Yoru no Yakusoku" (The Promise of the Night of Falling Stars).
J-Novel Club publishes the novel series and its manga adaptation in English, and it describes the "slow-life fantasy" story:
Dias finally returns home after decades of war. He's hailed as a hero and promptly rewarded with his own domain… which turns out to be little more than empty plains. Population: zero. Dias, who has only ever known battle, finds himself at a loss. How is he supposed to survive, let alone cultivate his territory into a thriving, prosperous dominion when there's nothing but grass as far as can see?
Fortunately for Dias, a horned girl by the name of Alna is about to show him there's more to the plains than meets the eye!
Fuurou began serializing the story on the Shōsetsuka ni Narō service on January 20, 2018. The Earth Star Novel imprint publishes the novel series with illustrations by Kinta, andYumbo (who is credited in the anime's staff listing) is drawing the manga adaptation with14 volumes so far. The franchise has over two million copies in circulation so far.