'Dies Irae' Air Date, Spoilers: Ren's Life Is Turned Upside Down in New Promotional Video for Upcoming Dark Fantasy Anime
A new key visual and promotional trailer has been released for the upcoming Japanese fantasy anime series, "Dies Irae."
The new trailer sheds some light on the kind of life the protagonist, Ren Fujii, used to live before his nightmare suddenly became his reality. Following a fistfight with his former best friend, Ren gets some help from his childhood friend Kasumi Ayase, and his upperclassman Rea Himuro in order to gradually gain a semblance of his old normal school life.
This was the norm until a series of brutal murders strike the city at the same time that Ren starts having nightmares of himself being beheaded by a guillotine. Coincidentally, the victims of the murders have also been decapitated. But no matter how dark and brutal this may already be, it is only just the tip of the more painful and horrifying battles that are about to become Ren's new normal.
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As his daily life is turned on its head and his beloved town is turned into a battlefield by supernatural men lurking in the darkness, will Ren be able to keep up and fight for his own survival in order to eventually retake his quiet and normal life?
The series is based on a visual novel video game developed by Light. It was originally released in Japan in 2007 and later inspired a crowdfunding campaign in 2015 for a planned anime adaptation. The campaign ended in July 2015 and raised over three times its target figure.
The trailer also features the series' opening theme titled "Kadenz," performed by Yui Sakakibara. The ending theme will reportedly be performed by the voice actor unit Phero☆Men consisting of Junichi Suwabe and Kousuke Toriumi.
"Dies Irae" premieres on Friday, Oct. 6, late night at 1:05 a.m. JST on Tokyo MX and AbemaTV. It will also air on Saturday, Oct. 7, at 9 p. m. JST on AT-X and on Monday, Oct. 9, late night at 12:30 a.m. JST on BS11. Additional information on other broadcast schedules and online resources will be available at a later time.
Episodes will also available in selected regions outside Japan via Crunchyroll.
