Get ready to rock in a whole new way this year as the GUILTY GEAR STRIVE: DUAL RULERS anime will stream on Crunchyroll in April 2025!
GUILTY GEAR STRIVE: DUAL RULERS
Release Date: April 2025
Territories: Worldwide excluding Japan, China and Korea
Synopsis, via the official website:
After the decline of the once robust fields of science and technology, a new energy source known as magic fuels the modern era.Humanity creates forbidden biological weapons: Gears.Those Gears eventually stand against humanity in a rebellion.Although they manage to overcome in the struggle for survival known as the Crusades,
humanity’s losses are so great that even after several decades pass, their emotional wounds remain unable to fully heal.Sin Kiske, the child of a human and a Gear, heads to his father Ky and mother Dizzy’s wedding ceremony. Their wedding breaks the ultimate taboo: a union between a human and a Gear. Even with the world at peace, it took many years for such a ceremony to come to fruition.Despite the complex array of emotions surrounding it, the wedding ceremony is met with blessings. When suddenly, a mysterious girl appears…The fated child inheriting Gear blood–and the mysterious girl who despises Gears. Their meeting would shake the world.
Shigeru Morikawa (Chrono Crusade) is slated to direct the GUILTY GEAR STRIVE: DUAL RULERS anime alongside Shinpei Ishikawa and Hiroshi Morita as Assistant Directors, with Norimitsu Kaiho handling scripts, Ryo Takahashi on music and Seiji Mizushima as an Associate Producer with SANZIGEN handling the animation production. The series was first announced in June 2024.The cast includes:
Sin Kiske voiced by Issei MIyazaki
Sol Badguy voiced by Joji Nakata
Unika voiced by Yui Ishikawa
Ky Kiske voiced by Takeshi Kusao
Dizzy voiced by Kazue Fujita
Bridget voiced by Manaka Iwami
Ramlethal Valentine voiced by Megumi Han
Elphelt Valentine voiced by Aya Suzaki
Jack-O voiced by Hiromi Igarashi
Baiken voiced by Mayumi Asano
Johnny voiced by Norio Wakamoto
Leo Whitefang voiced by Tetsu Inada
Vernon voiced by Junichi Endo
Nerville Hammer voiced by Yasuhiro Mamiya
Narrator voiced by Tomokazu Sugita
GUILTY GEAR -STRIVE-, the latest installment in Arc System Works’ fighting game franchise, was released in June 2021 for PlayStation, Xbox and PC platforms. The series was previously adapted into novels, manga and drama CDs in the early 2000s around the release of Guilty Gear X.
