Red River Anime Confirms Two-Cour Broadcast, More Cast

Fans waited more than 30 years for an anime adaptation of Red River, now they'll officially get to enjoy a second cour starting on September 29, which will bring the series' total number of episodes to 24. It was also revealed today that Soma Saito will voice User Ramses and Shun Horie will voice Juda Haspasrupi from Episode 8.Crunchyroll is currently streaming Red River as it airs.

Chie Shinohara's Red River manga was serialized in Shogakukan's Shojo Comic magazine from January 1995 to June 2002. Its chapters were collected into 28 published tankobon volumes, and it was reported in 2019 that the series had over 20 million copies in circulation.Kosuke Kobayashi (The Master of Ragnarök & Blesser of Einherjar) directs the anime adaptation at studio Tatsunoko Production, with series composition by Yoriko Tomita (The Elusive Samurai), character designs by Kenji Fujisaki (Blood Lad) and music by Yoshihisa Hirano (Ouran High School Host Club, Hunter x Hunter).Crunchyroll describes the story:

After a mysterious hand drags her beneath a puddle, modern Japanese teenager Yuri awakens in the Hittite Empire of the 14th century BCE. Thrust into a deadly struggle for the throne, she joins Prince Kail to battle assassins, outwit royal conspiracies, and survive a world at war. As her exploits earn her renown as the goddess Ishtar, Yuri must choose between her old life and an uncertain future.

Source: Red River anime website