Crunchyroll Announces New Series, Clips, and a New Book

A number of announcements were made during Virtual Crunchyroll Expo. Among these are a number of new anime series coming to the streaming service, a new clip for Fena: Pirate Princess, a new book, and more. High Guardian Spice is a new Crunchyroll Original from Raye Rodriguez that is coming soon. You can find more information about all the announced series below with a new clip from Fena below that.

• High Guardan Spice Synopsis

  • The lives of four fierce girls converge at High Guardian Academy, the one place where they can stumble comically toward adulthood while becoming the heroes they’ve always admired. As they master the ways of battle and sorcery, the foursome form allegiances, uncover legacies, face betrayals and discover their true identities while preparing to protect the world from an ominous unknown threat.

  • Steaming info: Coming soon to Crunchyroll.

• Love of Kill Synopsis

  • Two assassins face off. The cool bounty hunter Chateau and the mysterious and powerful Ryang-ha. Chateau and Ryang-ha become enemies after this fight—at least, they should have, but for some reason Ryang-ha takes a liking to Cheateau and begins following her around.

  • Little by little, Chateau develops a cooperative partnership with Ryang-ha, which gets her caught up in the struggle against the organizations hunting him down. Furthermore, that battle is related to her past as well. Two mismatched assassins weave together a twisted "Assassin X Assassin" thriller. The strange gears of fate begin to move.

  • Steaming info: Coming to Crunchyroll in 2022

• Skeleton Knight in Another World Synopsis

  • When Arc wakes up, he discovers that he has been transported to another world in the body of the character he was playing in an MMO. Looking like a suit of armor on the outside and a skeleton on the inside, he is the Skeleton Knight. If his identity is discovered, he could be mistaken for a monster and become a target! Arc decides to spend his time as a mercenary so as not to attract attention to himself. However, he's not the kind of man who can stand idly by when he witnesses evil acts take place right before his eyes! This isekai fantasy series about the Skeleton Knight's unintentional quest to make the world a better place has arrived!!

  • Steaming info: Coming soon

• The Faraway Paladin Synopsis

  • In the ruined city of the dead far from human civilization lives a single human child named Will. He is raised by three undead: Blood the heroic skeleton warrior, Mary the ladylike mummy priestess, and Gus the crotchety ghost wizard. The three of them teach the boy what they know and pour their love into him.

  • One day, the boy begins to wonder, "Who am I?" Will uncovers the mysteries of the undead hidden in this faraway land. He learns of the love and mercy of good gods, as well as the paranoia and madness of evil gods. And once he learns it all, the boy embarks on the path to becoming a Paladin.

  • Steaming info: Coming to Crunchyroll Fall 2021!

• Muv-Luv Alternative Synopsis

  • A story of the bonds between those who fight, in a world pushed to its limits. On one of the countless parallel worlds that exist throughout spacetime, humanity has fought a decades long war against the BETA, hostile extraterrestrial invaders, using humanoid fighting machines called Tactical Surface Fighters. This is a story of how humanity lives and dies while on the brink of extinction…

  • Steaming info: Coming to Crunchyroll this fall!

• The Strongest Sage of Disqualified Crest Synopsis

  • His strength limited by the magical crest with which he was born, Mathias, the world’s most powerful sage, decides reincarnation is necessary to become the strongest of all. Upon his rebirth as a young boy, Mathias is thrilled to discover he’s been born with the optimal crest for magical combat on his first try! Unfortunately, the world he’s been born into has abysmally poor standards when it comes to magic, and everyone thinks he’s still marked for failure! Now it’s up to Mathias to prove everyone wrong…world’s strongest sage-style!

  • Steaming info: Coming to Crunchyroll January 2022

If you’re a fan of books and anime, you’ll want to check out the new Essential Anime. This book serves as a guide highlighting 50 classic anime series and films. It even provides a look into the history and impact of the anime industry on Japanese and Western pop culture. Essential Anime is being released by Running Press in April 2022 with pre-orders open now.