The official website for Hataage! Kemonomichi ( Rise Up! Animal Road ), the television anime of Natsume Akatsuki 's Kemonomichi manga, began streaming a promotional video for the anime on Friday. The video shows the first footage of the anime. The site also revealed that No B and Katsuyuki Konishi (as his character Kemona Mask) is performing the opening song "Fight! Kemona Mask," while Momosumomosu is performing the ending song "Anecdote."

The anime's cast includes (Note: Character name romanizations are not official.):

Tetsu Inada as MAO (Macadamian Ogre)



Katsuyuki Konishi as Genzō Shibata/Kemona Mask



Arisa Sakuraba as Carmilla



Yuki Yagi as Hanako



Akira Sekine as Shigure





The anime will premiere on October 2 on Tokyo MX and Abema TV.

Kazuya Miura ( DRAMAtical Murder ) is directing the anime at ENGI . Touko Machida ( Lucky Star , DRAMAtical Murder , Harukana Receive ) is in charge of the series scripts. Tomoka Noumi (episode animation director for Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma , Sagrada Reset ) is designing the characters.

The manga follows masked wrestler Genzō Shibata, who likes all kinds of animals and creatures. One day he is summoned to another world, where a princess asks him to help kill magical beasts, but he gets mad and puts her in a German suplex. Instead, he begins life as a pet shop owner in the other world.

Akatsuki ( Konosuba ) writes the manga series and Baka & Test - Summon the Beasts artist team Mo-suke Mattaku and Yumeuta are providing the art. The duo launched the manga in Shōnen Ace in November 2016. The fourth compiled volume shipped on January 26.

