A new key visual for the original TV anime Giant Beasts of Ars has been released, shortly after the broadcast of the series’ ninth episode. It features all of the main characters involved in the show. The 12-episode anime series first premiered on January 7, 2023. 

Akira Oguro (Namuamida Butsu! Rendai Utena, Final Fantasy Legends: Hikari to Yami no Senshi and Yuusha Shirei Dagwon character designer) is directing the anime, with Norimitsu Kaihou (Akudama Drive co-series composer) as series screenwriter and scriptwriter, Illustrator Ashito Ooyari as original character designer, and Hiroshi Shimizu (Megalo Box) and Masato Katou (Peach Boy Riverside co-character designer) as character designers. Shuuji Katayama and Akinari Suzuki are composing the music. Asahi Production is in charge of the animation production.

Meanwhile, the main voice cast includes Hina Youmiya as Kumi, Toshiyuki Morikawa as Jiro, Yuu Serizawa as Mia, Hiromu Mineta as Meran, and Youko Hikasa as Romana. Additional voice cast members include Asami Seto as Tsurugi, Wakana Kuramochi as Shalt, Ryouta Takeuchi as Fazade, Mayu Aoyagi as Touka, Kenichi Ogata as Zen, Atsushi Tamaru as Mezami, and Takayuki Sugou as Bakura. 

Other voice actors in the series include Akeno Watanabe as Kuumi Katsu, Takahiro Shimada as Baban, Mai Nakahara as Baban’s wife, Masaaki Mizunaka as Klunes, Motomu Kiyokawa as Gouza, Kenji Nomura as Guun, and Kanato Watai as Kiris. 

A manga adaptation by Toshinori Ito was launched on Koubunsha’s Comic Nettai manga website on January 27, 2023. 

HIDIVE is streaming the anime series as one of its first co-productions with DMM and describes the synopsis as:

The great beasts created the land, but humans stole it. Angered, the beasts began eating humans, who in turn called upon the gods to fight the beasts. In the age of the sword, heroes and mythology, giant beasts are hunted by humans for profit. Jiro, who makes his living hunting beasts, encounters Kuumi, who is being chased by someone, and in that moment decides to save her. As rumors spread regarding humanity and a mysterious experiment, together they seek to discover the world’s secrets.

Source: Giant Beasts of Ars Official Anime Twitter