The Fate
Project Ōmisoka TV Special 2018 (Fate Project New Year's
Eve TV Special 2018) program revealed on Monday that Makoto
Sanda's Lord
El-Melloi II-sei no Jikenbo (The Case Files of Lord El-Melloi II) mystery novel
spinoff series will get a television anime adaptation titled Lord
El-Melloi II-sei no Jikenbo -Rail Zeppelin Grace note-. The series will
premiere on Tokyo
MX, BS11, Gunma TV, Tochigi TV, and MBS in July
2019.
The
anime will adapt the "Rail Zeppelin" story from the novels and also
include original content. "Episode 0" of the anime premiered during
the television special on Monday. Type-Moon previously teased a
new animation project by TROYCA (Re:CREATORS, Aldnoah.Zero, Bloom Into You) for the program.
The anime's
cast includes:
Daisuke Namikawa as Lord El-Melloi II
Reina Ueda as Gray
Daisuke Ono as Add
Inori Minase as Reines
El-Melloi Archisorte
Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Flat
Escardos
Seiichirō Yamashita as Svin
Glascheit
Yūsuke Kobayashi as Caules
Forvedge Yggdmillennia
Namikawa,
Matsuoka, and Kobayashi are reprising their roles from previous anime in the
franchise.
Makoto Katō (Beautiful
Bones -Sakurako's Investigation-, Bloom Into You) is
directing the series at TROYCA. Ukyō Kodachi (Chaos Dragon, Boruto:
Naruto Next Generations) is in charge of series composition. Jun Nakai is designing the characters. Jun Nakai (GATE, Silver Spoon) is designing the
characters. Ei Aoki (Fate/Zero director) is credited as
supervisor.
Other staff
members include:
·
Prop Design: Kazutaka Ema
·
Occult Research: Kiyomune Miwa
·
Art Director: Akira Itō (Studio ARA)
·
Art Design: Ryū Sakamoto (BIC Studio)
·
Color Key Artist: Mariko Shinohara
·
Director of Photography: Tomonobu
Kato
·
CG Director: Mitsutaka Iguchi
·
Editing: Syota Migiyama
·
Animation Producer: Toshiyuki Nagano
·
Sound Director: Jin Aketagawa
·
Music Production: Magic Capsule
·
Music: Yuki Kajiura
The novels center on the titular character Lord El-Melloi II,
the adult Waver Velvet from Fate/Zero,
and successor of Kayneth, as well as Lord El-Melloi II's apprentice Gray. The
story takes place in the Clock Tower, the Mage's Association's headquarters in
England. There, Lord El-Melloi II and Gray solve various mysteries of a magical
nature surrounding the Mage's Association.
Sanda published
the first novel in the series in December 2014. The eighth novel shipped in
Japan on August 12, and the ninth novel (seen right) shipped on Monday. Tō
Azuma launched a manga adaptation of the novels in Kadokawa's Young
Ace magazine
in October 2017, and Kadokawa published
the manga's second volume on August 4, and will publish the third volume on
January 10.
Sanda published
his Rental
Magica light novel series from
2004 to 2013 in 24 volumes. He serialized the novel series in Kadokawa's The Sneaker light novel magazine
before it ceased publication in 2011. A 24-episode television anime
adaptation premiered in 2007. Right Stuf released the series on DVD
in North America.
Sanda was the
dungeon master for the "Red Dragon" tabletop role-playing session
that inspired the Chaos
Dragon television anime. Type-Moon co-founder
and Fate/stay
night writer Kinoko Nasu participated as player in the game, alongside Fate/Zero author Gen Urobuchi, and other Japanese authors.
Sources: Lord El-Melloi II-sei no
Jikenbo anime's website and Twitter account, Comic Natalie
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