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Yu Kobayashi, Ai Kayano, Hitomi Harada, More Join Madan no Ō to Vanadis Cast

The official website for the Madan no Ō to Vanadis anime series announced more cast and staff on Friday. New cast members include:

• Mikako Komatsu as Alexandra Alshavin
• Yū Kobayashi as Elizavetta Fomina
• Yuka Iguchi as Limlisha
• Mariya Ise as Ludmilla Lurie
• Ai Kayano as Sophia Obertas
• Sumire Uesaka as Titta
• Hitomi Harada as Valentina Glinka Estes
• Juurouta Kosugi as The Narrator

Haruka Tomatsu is starring as Eleonora "Ellen" Viltaria with Kaito Ishikawa as Tigrevurmud "Tigre" Vorn. Konomi Suzuki will perform the opening theme and Hitomi Harada will perform the ending theme.

Tatsuo Satō (Bodacious Space Pirates) is directing and overseeing the scripts at Satelight. Yousuke Kabashima (The Girl Who Leapt Through Space) is adapting Hinata Katagiri, Nobuhiko Yanai, and Yoshiwo's original character designs. Masaru Yokoyama (Freezing Vibration, Queen's Blade series) is composing the music.

Additional staff includes:

• Art Director: Masatoshi Kai
• Chief Animation Director: Yousuke Kabashima
• Sound Director: Satoshi Motoyama
• Cgi Director: Yuta Hatakeyama
• Director of Photography: Atsushi Iwasaki
• Art Setting: Vincento Niemu
• CG Producer: Tomisaburou Hashimoto
• Color setting: Aiko Shinohara
• Design: Hiromitsu Ishikawa, Hiroyuki Taiga
• Editing: Takeshi Sadamatsu
• Prop Design: Hiyori Denforword Akishino, Yukiko Oohashi
• Sub-Character Design: Mariko Ito

The titular Vanadis of Tsukasa Kawaguchi's fantasy series are beautiful girls who ride into battle, brandishing weapons received from dragons. There are seven such Vanadis who rule seven territories and instill fear in neighboring countries. A boy named Tigre is a minor noble in the kingdom of Buryūnu who encounters a Vanadis in battle. She is the silver-haired, red-eyed "silver fraulein" Ellen. She defeats him, but instead of killing him, she takes him prisoner.

Kawaguchi launched the light novel series in 2011 with art by Yoshi☆wo, and Media Factory published the eighth volume in May. Artist Nobuhiko Yanai has been drawing the manga adaptation in Media Factory's Monthly Comic Flapper magazine since 2011.

The series will premiere in October.

[Via Ota-suke]