The Frontier Lord Begins with Zero Subjects Anime Reveals Two Lead Cast Members in Announcement Trailer

Japanese publisher Earth Star Entertainment announced today that a TV anime adaptation of The Frontier Lord Begins with Zero Subjects fantasy light novel series created by Fuurou (story) and Kinta (illustrations) is now in production. NBCUniversal's official anime and manga YouTube channel is now streaming an announcement trailer revealing the anime's two lead voice cast members: Kenichiro Matsuda (Marcella Nuvolari in Dahlia in Bloom: Crafting a Fresh Start with Magical Tools ) as the protagonist, Dias, and Shion Wakayama (Ai Mie in The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses ) as the main heroine, Alna. The Frontier Lord Begins with Zero Subjects Announcement Trailer Kenichi Imaizumi ( Kingdom ) serves as the director, alongside series composition writer Kunihiko Okada ( From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman ) and character designer Keiichi Tsuboyama . animation studio42 works on anime production. The anime's official X (formerly Twitter) account also opened today with a teaser visual. Tease Visual Kenichiro Mastuda Shion Wakayama Message from the novel author Fuurou: Anime adaptation! It was my dream! It has been a dream of mine to publish a book and to have a manga adaptation, and now I have achieved one more thing. Looking back, the past few years have been a run-through with Zero Subjects..., and I never dreamed when I started out that I would reach this point. It is all thanks to all of you that I have made it this far! Thank you so much to everyone who has supported and helped me...! I am making every effort, however small, to make sure that the anime is good, so I hope everyone will be excited to wait just for a while! Celebratory by the novel's illustrator Kinta Celebratory by the manga adaptation's illustrator Yumbo The Frontier Lord Begins with Zero Subjects novel started serialization first on the user-generated novel publishing website Shousetsuka ni Naro in January 2018. Earth Star Entertainment began publishing the novel's print edition under its Earth Star Novel imprint in October 2018, releasing 13 volumes to date. The novel's manga adaptation, titled The Frontier Lord Begins with Zero Subjects: Tales of Blue Dias and the Onikin Alna , illustrated by Yumbo, began serialization on Earth Star Entertainment's Comic Earth Star manga website in December 2018, releasing 13 volumes to date. The entire series has printed over two million copies in total. J-Novel Club, which has licensed an English edition of both the novel and manga , describes the series: Dias finally returns home after decades of war. He’s hailed 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 he 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! Sources: Earth Star entertainment press release, NBCUniversal's official anime and manga YouTube channel , "The Frontier Lord Begins with Zero Subjects" official X (formerly Twitter) ⒸFuurou/Earth Star entertainment/The Frontier Lord Begins with Zero Subjects Production Committee

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