#The Faraway Paladin Anime Gets New PV, Additional Cast, Premieres October 9

The official website for the anime adaptation of Kanata Yanagino and Kususaga Rin’s The Faraway Paladin (Saihate no Paladin) light novel series revealed the anime’s second promotional video, additional cast members, theme song artists, and October 9 premiere date.

The promotional video previews the opening theme song “The Sacred Torch” by H-el-ical// and the ending theme song “Shirushibi” (“Mark of Fire”) by Nagi Yanagi.

The newly added cast members includes Aoi Yūki as Gracefeel and Hiroki Takahashi as Stagnate. Other cast members include Maki Kawase as Will, Katsuyuki Konishi as Blood, Yui Horie as Mary, Nobuo Tobita as Gus, and Ayumu Murase as Menel.

The anime’s staff includes Yuu Nobuta (World’s End Harem) as director, Tatsuya Takahashi (Eromanga Sensei) as script supervisor, and Kōji Haneda (Initial D Legend trilogy) as character designer. Ryuuichi Takada and Keigo Hoashi are composing the music at MONACA. The animation production will be from Children’s Playground Entertainment.

The Faraway Paladin light novel series launched with illustrations by Rin in March 2016, and Overlap Bunko publishes the novels in print.

Crunchyroll will stream the series as it airs and describes the story as:

In the ruined city of the dead far from human civilization lives a single human child named Will. He is raised by three undead: Blood the heroic skeleton warrior, Mary the ladylike mummy priestess, and Gus the crotchety ghost wizard. The three of them teach the boy what they know and pour their love into him.

One day, the boy begins to wonder, “Who am I?” Will uncovers the mysteries of the undead hidden in this faraway land. He learns of the love and mercy of good gods, as well as the paranoia and madness of evil gods. And once he learns it all, the boy embarks on the path to becoming a Paladin.

Sources: The Faraway Paladin anime’s website, Twitter