Suikoden Anime Debuts October 3 with Kōji Nakamura Ending Song
The ending theme is the latest piece of a rollout that pairs Nakamura's score with a vocalist drawn from the same Konami-adjacent music pipeline as the opening act, placing the music side of the adaptation on the same production timeline as the television premiere.
Key Facts
- Suikoden: The Anime premieres on October 3, 2026 on Tokyo MX at 11:30 p.m. local time, with the first episode running 60 minutes.
- The anime airs on Kansai TV, BS Asahi, and 32 other stations nationwide between October 6 and October 9, 2026.
- Kōji Nakamura performs the ending theme 'closed eye sun', featuring Honoka Takahashi of Legal Lily as guest vocalist and lyricist.
- The ending theme will be available for streaming from October 4, 2026.
- Suikoden I&II HD Remaster Gate Rune and Dunan Unification Wars launched in March 2025 for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC.
Reporting from 3 sources: Anime News Network, 4Gamer.net, Denfaminicogamer.
Konami's Suikoden: The Anime, an adaptation of Suikoden II, will premiere on October 3, 2026. The first episode runs 60 minutes and airs on Tokyo MX at 11:30 p.m. local time, with broadcasts following on Kansai TV, BS Asahi, and 32 other stations nationwide between October 6 and October 9. The third promotional video, released on September 17, previews the ending theme 'closed eye sun' by Kōji Nakamura, featuring Honoka Takahashi of Legal Lily as guest vocalist and lyricist. The video also previews the opening theme 'Kanashimi Sae Otonabite' by amazarashi. The song will be available for streaming from October 4, with pre-add and pre-save open since September 18. Kōji Nakamura also composed the anime's background music, while Go Hiyama joins him on arrangement.
The third promotional video is cut around Riliu, voiced by Toshiki Kumagai, and Jowy, voiced by Shinya Tsuchiya, following the two friends from the Unicorn Youth Brigade through the Highland Kingdom's collapse of its truce with the City-States of Jowstown. Katsuyuki Konishi plays Viktor, Yūichi Nakamura plays Flik, and Taku Yashiro plays Luca Blight.
Yūzō Satō directs at KONAMI animation, the game studio's own anime division, with Michihiro Tsuchiya overseeing series scripts and Ryō Yamauchi as anime character designer. Yoshikazu Iwanami is the sound director, and Ryō Hino of NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan is producer and production manager.
Both theme songs come from Sony Music Labels. Nakamura's comment describes writing toward "an image of many sounds gathering, influencing each other, and ultimately taking the form of music," while Takahashi said she "sang the song as if packing that moment full of words" after crying repeatedly while playing Suikoden.
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"Suikoden Live" at Tokyo Game Show streams September 20 with Kumagai, Tsuchiya, and Konishi appearing. A manga adaptation, Gensō Suikoden The Anime: The Real Hero, runs in Comic Dengeki Daioh and launched on Kadokawa's Comic Walker and Niconico Manga.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 3 cited sources below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.