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DAN DA DAN Anime Casts Masako Isobe

The official website for the television anime of Yukinobu Tatsu's DAN DA DAN "paranormal mystery battle & romantic comedy" manga revealed on Tuesday that Masako Isobe will voice the character Naki Kitō, the strongest old lady of the Kitō family, the landowners who manage the village where Jiji and his family has moved to. The character will appear in the anime's final episode on Thursday.

The anime's staff also revealed the character Jashi (Evil Eye), the brief-wearing spirit that shows itself to Jiji even in his dreams. The character will also appear in the final episode.

The series premiered in Japan on October 3 on TBS and MBS's Super Animeism TURBO programming block. Netflix began streaming the anime worldwide on October 3 at 25:00 JST (effectively, October 4 at 1:00 a.m. JST).

The anime stars:

• Shion Wakayama as Momo Ayase
• Natsuki Hanae as Okarun
• Mayumi Tanaka as Turbo Granny
• Kazuya Nakai as Serpoian
• Nana Mizuki as Seiko
• Ayane Sakura as Aira Shiratori
• Kaito Ishikawa as Jiji (Jin Enjо̄ji)
• Ryūzaburō Ōtomo as Flatwoods Monster
• Kikuko Inoue as Acrobatic Silky (or Acrobatic Sarasara)
• Tomokazu Seki as Dover Demon
• Tomokazu Sugita as Taro
• Fumi Hirano as Hana

Fūga Yamashiro (Tatami Time Machine Blues assistant director) is directing the anime at Science SARU, and Hiroshi Seko (Attack on Titan The Final Season, Chainsaw Man, Jujutsu Kaisen, Mob Psycho 100) is supervising and writing the series scripts. Composer kensuke ushio (Chainsaw Man, DEVILMAN crybaby, Liz and the Blue Bird) is scoring the music. Naoyuki Onda (Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway, Berserk: The Golden Age Arc) is designing the characters, and Yoshimichi Kameda (Mob Psycho 100) is designing the aliens and supernatural entities.

Hip-hop duo Creepy Nuts perform the opening theme song "Otokone," and ZUTOMAYO perform the ending theme song "TAIDADA."

Crunchyroll describes the story:

This is a story about Momo, a high school girl who comes from a family of spirit mediums, and her classmate Okarun, an occult fanatic. After Momo rescues Okarun from being bullied, they begin talking. However, an argument ensues between them since Momo believes in ghosts but denies aliens exist, and Okarun believes in aliens but denies ghosts exist.

To prove to each other what they believe in is real, Momo goes to an abandoned hospital where a UFO has been spotted and Okarun goes to a tunnel rumored to be haunted. To their surprise, they each encounter overwhelming paranormal activities that transcend comprehension. Amid these predicaments, Momo awakens her hidden power and Okarun gains the power of a curse to overcome these new dangers! Their fateful love begins as well!?

The story of the occult battle and adolescence starts!

Tatsu serializes the manga on Shueisha's Shonen Jump+ service, and Shueisha published the 16th compiled book volume on October 4. Viz Media publishes the manga in English and released the ninth volume on October 15.

Sources: DAN DA DAN anime's website, Comic Natalie