© Yura Urushibara (AKITASHOTEN) /TOUGEN ANKI PROJECT
Distribution company REMOW announced on Tuesday the television anime of Yura Urushibara‘s Tougen Anki: Dark Demon of Paradise manga has hit the #1 spot on Netflix in Japan, and entered the top 5 non-English TV list for Netflix globally.
Above Tougen Anki are Squid Game at #1, Under a Dark Sun at #2, the DAN DA DAN anime at #3, and Ángela at #4.
The Tougen Anki anime debuted on July 11.
The anime streams outside Japan on the following platforms: Crunchyroll, Netflix, Prime Video, Samsung TV Plus, Anime Onegai, Bandplay, ADN, ANIME GENERATION, Anime Key, iQIYI international, bilibili (Bstation), Laftel, Bahamut, My-Video, 中華電信MOD, HamiVideo, KKTV, friDay, LINE TV, ANIWON, ANIBOX, TVING, WAVVE, LAFTEL, WATCHA PLAY, KT genieTV, SK BTV, and LG U+TV.
On Prime Video, the series is available worldwide except in Japan and Mainland China, and on Netflix the series is available worldwide outside of Japan. Crunchyroll is also releasing an English dub for the series.
The anime is also getting a mini companion anime titled Onimomomomo. The staff is releasing the episodes weekly alongside the main episodes.
Ato Nonaka is directing the anime at Studio Hibari. Hiroyuki Hashimoto is the assistant director. Yukie Sugawara (The Idolm@ster SideM, No Guns Life, The Unwanted Undead Adventurer) is writing and supervising the anime’s scripts. Ryoko Amisaki (Kino’s Journey – The Beautiful World) is designing the characters. Hiroyuki Becchaku is the art designer, while Scott MacDonald is directing the art . Saki Tada is the color key artist. Naoki Serizawa is the compositing director of photography. Ryota Fukushima is directing the CG. Yumika Okazaki is editing. Satoki Iida is directing the sound, and Kohta Yamamoto is composing the music. Pony Canyon is credited for the music production.
THE ORAL CIGARETTES perform the opening theme song “Overnight,” and BAND-MAID perform the anime’s ending theme song “What is justice?”
Urushibara launched the manga in Akita Publishing‘s Weekly Shōnen Champion magazine in June 2020. The 25th compiled book volume shipped on July 8. Yen Press began publishing the manga in English in September 2024, and shipped the third volume on May 27.
The manga previously inspired a stage play that ran Tokyo and Osaka in February 2024, and a sequel stage play ran in January 2025.
Source: Press release
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