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Leviathan has just debuted its first look, along with a trailer and a release date. The series is now set to arrive on Netflix in full on Thursday, July 10, 2025.
Coming from the same anime production company as Netflix’s BEASTARS, we got our first glimpses of Leviathan back in June 2024, with a follow-up teaser trailer coming that September, with a confirmation that the series would debut sometime in 2025. In addition to the release date today, we have just received a brand new synopsis, which reads: “Set in an alternate steampunk past, an Austrian fugitive prince and a Scottish airman in disguise embark on an unexpected quest to prevent a world war.”
Late last year, upon the release of Uglies, we spoke to Scott Westerfeld about the upcoming adaptation. He told us, “I will say that Orange and Cubic Pictures are incredible, and are keeping my and Keith Thompson’s original vision in mind the whole way.”
As covered by Westerfeld in his blog, all three books are being covered in the series, which is all coming out this year, and he was involved from the get-go, saying that he was “sent the scripts, the designs, the episodes as they came together. It’s mostly super faithful! (And it’s really cool when it varies from the books.)”
The official voice cast for the series is expected to be revealed imminently. You can see the brand new trailer, featuring some of the score and action sequences you can expect from the new series, embedded below:
Who’s in the Voice Cast for Netflix’s Leviathan?
On June 6th, Netflix unveiled the Japanese voice cast for the new series:
- Ayumu Murase (Haikyuu!!) as Prince Aleksandar “Alek”
- Natsumi Fujiwara (The Promised Neverland) as Sharp
- Shunsuke Sakuya (Black Lagoon) as Count Volger
- Yasuhiro Mamiya (Fruits Basket) as Klopp
- Mie Sonozaki (Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex) as Dr. Nora Barlow
- Ivan Shibata (Blue Lock) as Newkirk
- Fairouz Ai (JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean) as Lilit
- Hiroki Touchi (Attack on Titan) as Nikola Tesla
- Ikuko Tani (One Piece) as Nene
- Genta Nakamura (Blue Lock) as Hoffman
- Daichi Hayashi (Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury) as Rigby
- Satoshi Niwa (Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai) as Matthews
- Naoto Kobayashi (Detective Conan) as Thomas
- Yukitaro Namura (Yowamushi Pedal) as Hirst
- Ryosuke Higa (Kamen Rider Zero-One) as Leviathan’s Captain
- Michio Hazama (Transformers) as George Darwin
- Takahiro Fujiwara (Vinland Saga) as Pavel
- Naomi Kusumi (One Piece) as Zaven
- Tessyo Genda (My Hero Academia) as Sultan
Additional Details for Leviathan
Director: Christophe Ferreira
Music by: Nobuko Toda & Kazuma Jinnouchi (Suzume, Ghost In The Shell SAC_2045, Metal Gear Solid 4)
Original Songs by: Joe Hisaishi (Spirited Away, Castle in the Sky)
Produced by: Qubic Pictures (Eden, Star Wars: Visions)
Production: Orange (Trigun Stampede, BEASTARS, Land of the Lustrous) and Cubic Pictures (Star Wars: Visions Seasons 1 & 3)
Netflix Rating: TV-14
For more on Netflix’s upcoming slate of anime coming in 2025 and beyond, keep it locked here on What’s on Netflix. Are you looking forward to checking out Leviathan? Let us know in the comments.
