Daemons of the Shadow Realm

The television anime adaptation of Hiromu Arakawa's manga Daemons of the Shadow Realm premiered on April 4, 2026, and is set for two consecutive cours. The second cour began on July 4, with a new promotional video and key visual revealing theme song artists: Masanori Otoda performs the opening theme "back shot" and Kei Sugawara performs the ending theme "Kujaku" (Peacock). Crunchyroll streams the series with a same-day English dub.

The production team includes director Masahiro Ando at Bones Film, series scriptwriter Noboru Takagi, character designer and chief animation director Nobuhiro Arai, and composer Kenichiro Suehiro. The Japanese cast features Kensho Ono as Yuru, Yume Miyamoto as Asa, Yuichi Nakamura as Dera, and Misaki Kuno as Gabu-chan. The English dub cast includes Ben Stegmair as Yuru and Molly Zhang as Asa. The supporting cast expanded through the first cour, with Shinichiro Miki joining as Ivan Yosano, Kappei Yamaguchi as Hikaru Kagemori, Yoshiko Sakakibara as Kai, and Ako Mayama and Shigeru Chiba voicing the dual role of Tenaga Ashinaga.

Episode-by-episode coverage tracked the series' narrative progression. Episode 5 delivered the long-awaited meeting between Yuru and Asa, advancing the mystery of their parents' disappearance and revealing multiple factions pursuing the siblings. Episode 9 confirmed the attack on the village was an inside job, pointing to Higashi Village as the likely culprit. Episode 11 introduced Ken as Dera's half-brother, while episode 12 expanded world-building by showing how different demon-wielding factions react to recent events. A review of episode 10 criticized the fight choreography as contrived, particularly Dera's use of a sniper rifle, giving the episode a community score of 4.1. The manga, which Arakawa launched in Monthly Shonen Gangan in December 2021, has over three million copies in circulation, with the 13th volume releasing July 10.