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Aniplus Asia Airs Simulcast of The Duke of Death, An Archdemon's Dilemma, Grandpa and Grandma Turn Young Again Anime

Aniplus-Asia announced last week that it will air a simulcast of the third season of The Duke of Death and His Maid, An Archdemon's Dilemma - How to Love Your Elf Bride, and Grandpa and Grandma Turn Young Again anime.

The third season of the anime of Koharu Inoue's The Duke of Death and His Maid (Shinigami Bocchan to Kuro Maid) manga will premiere in Japan on April 7.

Staff from the second season will return to produce the new season at J.C.STAFF. Natsuki Hanae and Ayumi Mano will reprise their starring roles as the Duke of Death and Alice, respectively.

Ayumi Mano performs the new season's ending theme song "Étoile Mémoire." Nasuo☆ will perform the opening theme song "Cinematic Parade."

The staff previously announced that the third season would conclude the story.

The second season debuted in July 2023, and ended in September 2023. Aniplus-Asia aired a simulcast of the second season as it aired in Japan.

The television anime's first season premiered in Japan in July 2021, and aired for 12 episodes. Aniplus-Asia also aired the anime as it aired in Japan.

The television anime of Fuminori Teshima's An Archdemon's Dilemma - How to Love Your Elf Bride light novel series will premiere in Japan on April 4.

Yūsuke Kobayashi will play the role of Zagan, a reclusive powerful sorcerer, and Kana Ichinose as Nephy, a beautiful elf girl.

Hiroshi Ishiodori (RIN-NE 3, Kiss Him, Not Me, Shijō Saikyō no Deshi Kenichi) is directing the anime at Brains Base, and Keiji Gotoh (In/Spectre, Kiddy Grade) is supervising the animation. Aya Yoshinaga (Crest of the Stars, Project ARMS, Kurau: Phantom Memory) is overseeing the scripts, and Mina Ōsawa (Given, The Strongest Sage With the Weakest Crest, School Babysitters) is designing the characters. Musician Yuma Yamaguchi (Metallic Rouge, Undead Murder Farce) is composing the soundtrack. The Brow Beat will perform the opening theme song "Wakaranai Ai" (A Love I Can't Understand). Sayaka Yamamoto performs the anime's ending theme song "Blue Star."

J-Novel Club is releasing the light novel in English. The company published the light novel's first volume in November 2019, and will publish the 16th volume on April 9. It describes the story:

Zagan is a super powerful sorcerer, but lives as a recluse. And now he faces his greatest test… falling in love!

Zagan is feared by the masses as an evil sorcerer. Both socially awkward and foulmouthed, he spends his days studying sorcery while beating down any trespassers within his domain. One day he's invited to a dark auction, and what he finds there is an elven slave girl of peerless beauty, Nephy. Having fallen in love at first sight, Zagan uses up his entire fortune to purchase her, but being a poor conversationalist, he has no idea how to properly interact with her. Thus, the awkward cohabitation of a sorcerer who has no idea how to convey his love and his slave who yearns for her master but has no idea how to appeal to him begins.

The television anime of Kagiri Araido's Jiisan Baasan Wakagaeru (Grandpa and Grandma Turn Young Again) manga will premiere in Japan on April 7.

The anime stars:

• Mamiko Noto as Ine / Grandma
• Shinichirō Miki as Shozo / Grandpa
• Shiori Mikami as Mino
• Nao Tōyama as Shiori
• Junta Terashima as Shōta
• Kazuyuki Okitsu as Yoshiaki
• Tomo Sakurai as Kaede

Masayoshi Nishida (Chikyū to no Yakusoku) is directing the anime at Gekkō. Yukie Sugawara (The Vampire Dies in No Time, Overlord, No Guns Life) is in charge of series composition, Nagisa Takahashi (key animator for Ensemble Stars!, FUUTO PI) is designing the characters, and Tomoki Hasegawa (NANA, Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?!) is composing the music.

The comedy manga centers on an old husband and wife who live a quiet life in Aomori harvesting apples. One day, they wake up and find their physical age restored to their 20s.

Source: Aniplus-Asia's Facebook page (link 2, link 3)