Scum of the Brave TV Anime Casts Kenjirō Tsuda, Shinichirō Miki

The official X/Twitter account for the television anime of writer Rocket Shokai and artist Nakashima723's Scum of the Brave (Yūsha no Kuzu) manga revealed two more cast members on Friday.

Kenjirō Tsuda as Lord "Amber Thorn," a demon lord who participates in selling narcotics and in human trafficking.
— 『勇者のクズ』アニメ公式 (@yushanokuzu) January 16, 2026 Shinichirō Miki as Kiyoto Takamiya, Yashiro's master
— 『勇者のクズ』アニメ公式 (@yushanokuzu) January 16, 2026

Image via Scum of the Brave anime's website

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The anime debuted on NTV and its affiliated channels on January 10 at 24:55 (effectively, January 11 at 12:55 am.) It will stream the dAnime and Hulu services before other streaming services, as well as on the AT-X channel. The anime will air for two cours (quarter of a year) without a break. Crunchyroll is streaming the anime as it airs.

The anime stars:

• Ryōta Suzuki as Shinigami Yashiro
• Akari Kitō as Aki Jogamine
• Momo Harumi as Yukine Indō
• Yumiri Hanamori as Sara Kashiwagi Pendragon
• Hinata Tadokoro as Salt Joe
• Daisuke Hirakawa as Ongakuya Ishinō
• Yasuhiro Takato as Moguri no Maruta

Shinji Ushiro is directing the anime at OLM. Yoichi Kato is writing and overseeing the series scripts, Rika Murakami is designing the characters, and Kenichiro Suehiro is composing the music.

Other staff members include:

• Color Key Artist: Naoto Kondō
• Art Director: Kazuhiro Inoue
• Compositing Director of Photography: Tsunetaka Ema
• Editing: Naoki Watanabe
• Sound Director: Takahiro Enomoto

Singer TOOBOE is performing the opening theme song "Gun Powder," and singer Mulasaki Ima is performing the ending theme song "Mental Rental."

The manga launched in 2018 and runs on LEED Publishing's Comic Border service. The manga's eighth volume shipped on December 18.

Manga Planet is publishing the manga in English digitally, and it describes the story:

In an alternate 21st century, rich mafia members can turn into "Demon Kings" through increasingly popular ether-enhancement surgery, and the bounty hunters called "Braves" are the ones called upon to take them down. Yashiro only wants the simple pleasures in life - pizza, beer, and card games. When three young Braves offer him a majestic sum to be their private tutor, he agrees solely for the money - but is it worth what he's getting himself into?

Rocket Shokai (Sentenced to Be a Hero: The Prison Records of Penal Hero Unit 9004) launched the story on the Kakuyomu website in February 2016. The series is getting re-published into novel format with revisions, and the new publication will feature illustrations by toi8. The first volume will ship on January 23 and the second volume will ship on February 20.

Sources: Scum of the Brave anime's X/Twitter account (link 2), Comic Natalie