#Dual Rulers Anime’s Main Trailer Reveals April Debut

The Guilty Gear Strive: Dual Rulers anime has received a main trailer previewing almost two minutes of footage and the opening song “AXCLUSION” by ulma sound junction, as well as revealing an April 5 JST Japanese broadcast premiere and an April premiere on Crunchyroll. 

A main visual was also released.

Guilty Gear Strive: Dual Rulers is inspired by Arc System Works‘ Guilty Gear fighting game series, with Guilty Gear Strive being the name of the latest entry. The anime’s synopsis reads:

The decline of the once robust fields of science and technology led to a new energy source for the modern era: magic. Humanity creates Gears, forbidden biological weapons. Those same Gears eventually stand against humanity in rebellion. Although they managed to overcome the war for survival known as The Crusades, humanity’s losses were so great that even after several decades, their emotional wounds remain raw. Sin Kiske, the child of a human and a Gear, heads to the wedding ceremony of his father Ky and his mother Dizzy. Their wedding breaks the ultimate taboo of a union between human and Gear. Even with the world at peace, it took many years before such a ceremony could come to fruition. Despite the complex array of emotions surrounding it, the wedding is met with blessings. When suddenly, a mysterious girl appears… The fated child inheriting the blood of Gears. The mysterious girl who despises Gears. Their meeting will shake the world.

The video game series began in 1998 and now sports a 2D/3D hybrid, cell-shaded visual style. Guilty Gear Strive was first released in 2021 on some platforms and is currently available on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One,  Xbox Series X/S, and Steam. Its story component is described as:

Head into the final confrontation with That Man, the person responsible for all the destruction and damage to the world and and it’s inhabitants. Join Sol Badguy, his rival Ky Kiske, and a total starting roster of 15 unique characters as they face the astonishing conclusion to a story 20 years in the making!

Staff

• Director: Shigeru Morikawa (Uta no Prince-sama Maji Love 1000% The Familiar of Zero: Rondo of Princesses director, Guilty Gear Strive‘s “Find Your One Way” music video storyboard cooperation)
• Assistant director: Shinpei Ishikawa (“Find Your One Way” storyboard artist and director et al.)
• Assistant director: Hiroshi Morita (“What and amazing swing” and “How about Paipai Mask?” music video CG supervisor, BanG Dream! Morfonication CG director and episode director)
• Animation character designer: Takuya Chanohara (Ave Mujica – The Die is Cast –)
• Animation character designer: Yuka Hachimori (Ave Mujica – The Die is Cast –)
• Animation character designer: Joseph Shin (Ave Mujica – The Die is Cast –)
• Original character designer: Arc System Works‘ Daisuke Ishiwatari
• Series composer and scriptwriter: Norimitsu Kaiho (Astra Lost in Space series composer, Guilty Gear X: The Butterfly and Her Gale author, Guilty Gear 2 -Overture- scenario writer)
• Associate producer: Seiji Mizushima (Mobile Suit Gundam 00 and Fullmetal Alchemist director) 
• Animation production: Sanzigen

Cast

• Issei Miyazaki as Sin Kiske
• Joji Nakata as Sol Badguy
• Yui Ishikawa as Unika
• Takeshi Kusao as Ky Kiske
• Kazue Fujita as Dizzy
• Hiromi Igarashi as KACK-O’
• Aya Suzaki as Elphelt Valentine
• Megumi Han as Ramlethal Valentine
• Manaka Iwami as Bridget
• Mayumi Asano as Baiken
• Norio Wakamoto as Johnny
• Tetsu Inada as Whitefang
• Junichi Endo as Vernon
• Tomokazu Sugita as Narrator

Source: @GUILTYGEAR_STDR