'Yomi no Tsugai' Reveals Additional Staff, Teaser Promo, Two Consecutive Cours for Spring 2026

by Naitik7897
Oct 9, 2025 11:13 AM | 10 Comments

The Crunchyroll Industry panel at New York Comic Con 2025 revealed additional staff and a teaser promotional video for the Yomi no Tsugai (Daemons of the Shadow Realm) television anime on Thursday. The anime adapting Hiromu Arakawa's action fantasy manga is scheduled to premiere in two consecutive cours in April 2026.

Staff
Character Design, Chief Animation Director: Nobuhiro Arai (Hitsugi no Chaika)
Twin Design: Kouji Sugiura (Fullmetal Alchemist animation director), Yoshiyuki Itou (Soul Eater chief animation director)
Art Director: Tatsurou Oonishi (Kimi wa Houkago Insomnia)
Art Design: Nariyuki Ogi (Fairy Gone), Shuuhei Tada (Nageki no Bourei wa Intai shitai)
Color Design: Yukari Gotou (Kekkai Sensen)
3D Director: Mizuki Sasaki (Isshun de Chiryou shiteita noni Yakutatazu to Tsuihou sareta Tensai Chiyushi, Yami Healer toshite Tanoshiku Ikiru animation director)
Director of Photography: Eiei Cho (Vanitas no Karte)
Editing: Ayumu Takahashi (Sirius)
Sound Director: Kazuhiro Wakabayashi (Nanatsu no Taizai)
Sound Effects: Kousuke Ogata (Katainaka no Ossan, Kensei ni Naru)

Masahiro Andou (Stranger: Mukou Hadan) is directing the anime at Bones Film. Noboru Takagi (Golden Kamuy) is handling the series composition and Kenichiro Suehiro (Goblin Slayer) is composing the music.

Arakawa began serializing the manga in Shounen Gangan in December 2021. Square Enix published the tenth volume on July 11.

Square Enix licensed the manga for English release in July 2022 and published the eighth volume on July 1, with the ninth volume scheduled to be released on December 9.

Teaser PV

Source: Comic Natalie

10 Comments Recent Comments

@Yubisoft why are you calling this series crap?

Oct 10, 2025 1:34 PM by Old_School_Akira

So in other words we are getting Marriagetoxin super late in 2026 because of this crap. Come on man....

Oct 10, 2025 8:38 AM by Yubisoft

@Redlinkkid true now if only this will have a dedicated action director then we are golden

Oct 9, 2025 11:18 PM by deg

@EcchiGodMamster Yeah the oni girl looks really cool, totally understandable reaction.

Oct 9, 2025 9:36 PM by Redlinkkid

@deg The thing that had me going was the color designer working on Bungo Stray Dogs and Blood Blockade Battlefront. That alone is a huge win for this production.

Oct 9, 2025 9:34 PM by Redlinkkid

you had me at sword of the stranger director

Oct 9, 2025 7:35 PM by deg

i was like

WHERE ARE THE GIRLS????

then i started simping

Oct 9, 2025 4:02 PM by EcchiGodMamster

It has good use of lighting I'll say that!

Oct 9, 2025 3:16 PM by Retro8bit

Well of this PV is any sign of things to come this will look really good. I'll keep this is in mind. Bones has been putting out a lot of good stuff so we'll see.

Oct 9, 2025 2:14 PM by Redlinkkid

Bones be feeding me good. Two two cour shows one after each other based on female authored manga.

Oct 9, 2025 1:24 PM by LyLord