Assassins Pride


Assassin’s Pride is a Japanese fantasy light novel series written by Kei Amagi and illustrated by Nino Ninomoto. Fujimi Shobo have published the series since January 20, 2016 under their Fujimi Fantasia Bunko imprint. A manga adaptation with art by Yoshie Katō was serialized in Shueisha's seinen manga magazine Ultra Jump from May 2017 to August 2022. An anime television series adaptation by EMT Squared aired from October to December 2019.

Plot

Humanity has been brought to the edge of extinction and now exists solely in the last remaining city-state of Flandore, where individual city blocks are housed in separate glass domes. Travel between the domes is possible only via train lines running through glass tunnels. The world outside the domes has become one of eternal darkness and is completely infested with savage lycanthropes.
Within the domes, humanity is divided into the nobility and the commoner classes. Through their blood, members of noble families are able to manifest mana which grants them powerful superhuman abilities enabling them to fight and kill lycanthropes. Melida Angel was born to a noble father and a commoner mother but has never manifested mana and attends an elite academy to hone her skills with mana.

Characters

House Angel

;Kufa Vampir
;Melida Angel
;Elise Angel
;Rosetti Pricket

St. Friedeswiede

;Nerva Martillo
;Shenfa Zwitoque

St. d'Autriche

;Mule la More
;Salacha Schicksal
;Keira Espada

Others

;Father
;William Gin
;Black Madia
;Blosum Pricket
;Serge Schiksal

Media

Light novel

Assassins Pride is written by Kei Amagi and illustrated by Nino Ninomoto. Fujimi Shobo have published thirteen tankōbon volumes since January 20, 2016 under their Fujimi Fantasia Bunko imprint. Two short stories have been published, with the first being released on February 20, 2018, and the second on December 20, 2019.

Manga

A manga adaptation drawn by Yoshie Katō was serialized in Shueisha's seinen manga magazine Ultra Jump from May 2017 to August 2022. It has been collected in ten tankōbon volumes.

Anime

An anime adaptation was announced during the Fantasia Bunko Dai Kanshasai 2018 event on October 21, 2018, later revealed to be a television series animated by EMT Squared. It is directed by Kazuya Aiura, with Deko Akao handled the series composition, and Maho Yoshikawa designed the characters. It aired from October 10 to December 26, 2019, on AT-X, Tokyo MX, SUN, and BS NTV. Run Girls, Run! performed the series' opening theme song "Share the light", while Tomori Kusunoki performed the series' ending theme song "Time of Foreigners". Sentai Filmworks has licensed the series and streamed it on Hidive and Crunchyroll. The series ran for 12 episodes. On November 5, 2019, Hidive announced that the series will receive an English dub.