We learned back in May that the upcoming series Lance N’Masques would be arriving this October, but it’s been quiet otherwise for the project. Now that we’re hitting the halfway point of the summer season, more news is starting to flow. The latest for this series is a 37 second promo from Pony Canyon that has now arrived, giving us our first look at the series in actual motion ahead of its October 1st, 2015 debut. Pony Canyon announced in the spring of 2014 that Studio Gokumi was taking on a new project, adapting the light novel series Lance N’Masques by Hideaki Koyasu. Pony Canyon USA announced in early April that they would be bringing the series over as well for localization.

This series marked the first light novel from the Pony Can imprint to get an anime adaptation and that means higher expectations are likely. The known cast includes:

Daiki Yamashita as Yōtarō Hanafusa
Ari Ozawa as Makio Kidōin
Manami Numakura as Yoriko Sudo
Suzuko Mimori as Alice Cleveland

Kyohei Ishiguro is set to direct the series for Studio Gokumi with original writer Hideaki Koyasu handling the series composition and scripts for the show. Koyasu is no stranger to head writer duties for an anime as he served in that role for Akikan!, GJ Club and Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan.

The light novel series is a recent one with the first volume having landed in December of 2013 and the fourth volume being released earlier this month.

Synopsis: The battle action novel series revolves around Youtarou Hanafusa, a young man who is part of the last remaining order of knights in the 21st century, “Knights of the World.” As he fights as the mysterious Knight Lancer, he must hide his identity behind a mask.

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