Fantasy TV Anime Helck Gets Fully Equipped with Teaser Trailer, Main Staff and 20 Cast Members
Just under a full year since the adaptation was announced with no news since, the upcoming Helck anime series unleashed a flurry of details today that includes two teaser visuals, a teaser trailer, the main cast and staff members, and a July 2023 broadcast.
The teaser visuals depict protagonists Helck and Red Vamirio, who are voiced by Katsuyuki Konishi (Uzui in Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba) and Mikako Komatsu (Rebecca in EDENS ZERO), respectively, in the trailer below.
Teaser Visual
Teaser Visual
Teaser Trailer
Eighteen additional cast members were also revealed, as follows (character romanizations unconfirmed):
- Azudra voiced by Yoshitsugu Matsuoka (Inosuke in Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba)
- Hon voiced by Akira Ishida (Regulus in Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-)
- Asta voiced by Shiki Aoki (Homura in EDENS ZERO)
- Ista voiced by Haruka Shiraishi (Asirpa in Golden Kamuy)
- Kenros voiced by Hiroyuki Yoshino (Franky in SPY x FAMILY)
- Hyura voiced by Rena Maeda (Machi in Hunter x Hunter)
- Doruushi voiced by Takuya Nakashima (Iijima in Talentless Nana)
- Rococo voiced by Sora Tokui (Nico in Love Live! School Idol Project)
- Piwi voiced by Shiori Izawa (Pochita in Chainsaw Man)
- Cless voiced by Motoharu Ono
- Alicia voiced by Reina Kondo (Nagomi in Akiba Maid War)
- Rafaed voiced by Atsushi Miyauchi (Mac in MEGALOBOX)
- Mikaros voiced by Daisuke Hirakawa (Kakyoin in JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure)
- Sharuami voiced by Yumiri Hanamori (Hayasaka in Kaguya-sama: Love is War)
- Edil voiced by Hiroki Nanami (Eve in VISUAL PRISON)
- Zelgeon voiced by Shuta Morishima (Nitta in Cardfight Vanguard)
- Haraoru voiced by Satoshi Niwa
- Elise voiced by Aimi (Nanako in Remake Our Life!)
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Based on the manga by Nanaki Nanao, Helck is being directed by Tatsuo Sato (Martian Successor Nadesico) at studio Satelight, with scripts by Toshizo Nemoto (Backflip!!) and Mitsutaka Hirota (EDENS ZERO), animation character designs by Yoshinori Deno (Fruits Basket animation director) and music by Yoshihisa Hirano (Hunter x Hunter), alongside these additional staff members:
- Art Designer:: Katsuhisa Takiguchi
- Art Director: Eiji Iwase
- Assistant Art Director: Daisuke Suzuki
- Color Designer: Miho Hasegawa
- Director of Photography: Tsuyoshi Shimura
- Editor: Ryoko Kaneshige
- Sound Direction: Shinji Takamatsu
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Viz Media, who publishes the manga’s official English version, describes the first volume as such:
Three months have passed since the Demon Lord was struck down, and the Demon Realm is holding a tournament to select his replacement. The leading contestant is Helck, a human hero who claims to hate his own kind. Some aren’t happy with the idea of a human becoming the next Demon Lord—especially Vermilio the Red. She wants nothing more than to protect demonkind and prove Helck to be their enemy, even if she has to rig the competition to do it!
Source: Comic Natalie
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