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Dropkick on My Devil! Anime Listed With 12 Episodes
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Amazon began listing a two-volume Blu-ray Disc and DVD home video release for the Jashin-chan Dropkick (Dropkick on My Devil!) anime on Thursday. The releases list 12 episodes for the anime. The first volume is slated for release on October 29, an the second volume for November 26.
The anime premiered on July 9. The anime is streaming exclusively on Amazon Prime Video inside and outside of Japan.
Hikaru Sato (Chronicles of the Going Home Club) is directing the series at Nomad (Chronicles of the Going Home Club, School-Live!). Kazuyuki Fudeyasu (Tantei Opera Milky Holmes, Is the order a rabbit?) is overseeing the series scripts, and is also writing the scripts alongside Momoko Murakami (Muromi-san, Mahou Shoujo Nante Mouiidesukara). Makoto Koga (Aria the Animation, Blessing of the Campanella) is serving as both character designer and chief animation director, and Yuki Kurihara and Yuzuru Jinma are composing the music. Kouichirou Natsume (Naruto Shippuden the Movie: Bonds, anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day film) is the executive producer.
Aina Suzuki, Nichika Omori, Miyu Kubota, Yurie Kozakai, Chiaki Omigawa, Rico Sasaki, and Riho Iida are performing the opening theme song "Ano Ko ni Dropkick" (Dropkick to that Girl) as their respective characters. Yutaro Miura is performing the ending theme song "Home Sweet Home!" for the show. The song is Miura's first time performing a theme song for an anime.
The original comedy manga by Yukiwo centers on Yurine Hanazono, a college student who summons Jashin-chan, a demon from the underworld. Now they must live together in a run-down apartment in Tokyo's Jinbōchō district. If Yurine dies, Jashin-chan gets to go back to the underworld, so she constantly plots to kill Yurine.
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