#Requiem of the Rose King TV Anime Pushed Back to January 2022

The official Twitter account for the upcoming TV anime adaptation of Aya Kanno‘s dark fantasy Shakespeare-inspired Requiem of the Rose King manga announced today that the TV anime will be moving from Fall 2021 and premiere in January 2022. The production committee cited “production reasons” for the move.

Requiem of the Rose King is based loosely on Shakespeare’s Richard III and Henry VI: Part III, re-imagining the villainous Richard III as an intersex individual who feels alone in society due to this. The original manga runs in the Monthly Princess magazine and has so far been collected into 15 volumes. An English version of the manga is published by Viz Media, which describes the story of the series as follows:

Richard, the ambitious third son of the House of York, believes he is cursed, damned from birth to eternal darkness. But is it truly fate that sets him on the path to personal destruction? Or his own tormented longings? Based on an early draft of Shakespeare’s Richard III, Aya Kanno’s dark fantasy finds the man who could be king standing between worlds, between classes, between good and evil.

The TV anime adaptation of Requiem of the Rose King will be directed by Kentaro Suzuki at J.C. Staff and premiere in January 2021.

Source: Requiem of the Rose King on Twitter

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Daryl Harding is a Japan Correspondent for Crunchyroll News. He also runs a YouTube channel about Japan stuff called TheDoctorDazza, tweets at @DoctorDazza, and posts photos of his travels on Instagram.