Retailer Amazon is listing nine Blu-ray and DVD volumes for the Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- anime with a total of 25 episodes. Only the first episode is listed with a runtime that is twice as long as the other episodes.

The series premiered on Crunchyroll on Sunday at 2:35 p.m. EDT.

The anime is inspired by Tappei Nagatsuki and illustrator Shinichirou Otsuka's light novel series of the same name, which Yen Press will publish in North America along with a manga adaptation. Crunchyroll describes the story:

Natsuki Subaru, an ordinary high school student, encounters a beautiful silver-haired girl from another world. Subaru wants to stay by her side and help her, but the burden she carries is far beyond anything Subaru imagined. They're faced with one attacking monster after another, betrayal, irrational violence... and finally death. Subaru doesn't want to see her get hurt, so he vows to take down any enemy, any fate that comes his way, to protect her. And so this powerless boy obtains "Return by Death," a unique ability that allows him to turn back time by dying. It becomes the potential to guide all people to a world where everyone can always be smiling, dependent on Subaru's life and loneliness. By using his power, the past can be lost, and memories can be rewritten. Subaru must now fight the fate that dooms him to keep all those forgotten memories hidden within, to be perpetually beaten, to see his own heart wearing down, to wager his life... all to protect the people he cares about. To get back the precious times that he's sure must have happened. "Even if you forget me, I will never forget you."

The anime's cast and character designs include:



Yūsuke Kobayashi as Subaru Natsuki



Rie Takahashi as Emilia



Yumi Uchiyama as Puck



Chinatsu Akazaki as Felt



Inori Minase as Rem



Rie Murakawa as Rum



Satomi Arai as Beatrice



Yūichi Nakamura as Reinhardt





Takehito Koyasu as Roswaal L Mathers

Mamiko Noto as Erza Granhill (not pictured)

Masaharu Watanabe (Wakaba Girl director, episode director for The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya) is directing the anime at studio WHITE FOX. Masahiro Yokotani (Maria Holic, both seasons of Free!, SHIMONETA: A Boring World Where the Concept of Dirty Jokes Doesn't Exist) is handling the series composition, and Kyuta Sakai (Steins;Gate, Sankarea: Undying Love, Humanity Has Declined) is designing the characters and serving as chief animation director.

Konomi Suzuki will perform the show's opening theme song "Redo" and MYTH&ROID will perform the ending theme song "STYX HELIX."

[Via WTK]