Tomb Raider King Korean-Animated Series Reveals New Character Videos, July 8 Debut

Kadokawa revealed the July 8 debut for the Korean-animated adaptation of artist 3B2S, storywriter Yuns (REDICE STUDIO), original storywriter SAN.G, and character designer P-crush's Tomb Raider King webtoon on Thursday. Kadokawa has also recently released two new character promotional videos for the series:

Saori Hayami as Irene Holton

Miyu Irino as Kōtarō Yanagi

The series will air in Japan with a Japanese dub starting on July 8 on Fuji TV's B8station programming block, at 25:15 JST (effectively July 9 at 1:15 a.m. JST). The Japanese title is Tōkutsuō.

The series will also hold a "world premiere" screening of its first 2 episodes on June 13. The screening will be held at the Science Hall of the Science Museum in Tokyo, an online pre-screening and livestream of the cast's stage greeting will stream on the Kadokawa Anime YouTube channel (streaming might only be available in Japan).

Image courtesy of Kadokawa

©3B2S, Yuns(REDICE STUDIO), SAN.G/Tomb Raider King Partners

The series' Japanese dub cast members include:

• Yoshimasa Hosoya as Ryōga Gōriki (Japanese localized name for Jooheon Suh)
• Saori Hayami as Irene Holton
• Junichi Suwabe as Taisei Ōgawara (Japanese localized name of Tae Joon Kwon)
• Miyu Irino as Kōtarō Yanagi (Japanese localized name for Jae-Ha Yoo)
• Nobuhiko Okamoto as Noboru Kureha (Japanese localized name for Seug-Woo Oh)

Seung Wook Woo is directing the animated series at STUDIO EEK, and is also overseeing the series scripts. Hyun-Jung Lee is the character designer and chief animation director, and Hyung Jun Heo is also the chief animation director. Ju Young Kim is composing the music.

Additional staff members include:

• Color Design: Jee Sun Hwang
• Art Director: Seung Chan Kang
• Background Art: Ha Gwon Bong, Ju Hyeon Jang, Sung Hee Kim
• Director of Photography: Ju Ri Jung, Kwan Hyeong Lee, Mi Youn Song
• Sound Director: Gun Yoon, Kisuke Koizumi

Korean girl group QWER will perform the opening theme song "Show Down." The song will be the first anime tie-up for the group, and will have Japanese lyrics.

Keigo Fukuda at IMAGICA EMS is editing the Japanese dub, and dugout is the sound producer.

Tapas is releasing the webtoon in English digitally, and it describes the series:

Mysterious tombs appeared all over the world one day, each containing a relic which grants its owner supernatural abilities. Jooheon Suh is a tomb explorer, excavator, and raider. Betrayed by his employer, he's about to die at the hands of a powerful new relic when he suddenly finds himself 15 years in the past, before any relics or tombs made their debut. Driven by feelings of revenge, how will Jooheon use his knowledge of the future to become the Tomb Raider King?

Ize Press is also publishing the webtoon in print, and released the 14th volume on April 21.

The webtoon is based on SAN.G's web novel series. An English version of the novel series is available on Tapas, Wuxiaworld, and Wattapad.

Source: Press releases

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