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Dead Account TV Anime Reveals Main Staff, January 2026 Debut in 1st Promo Video
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The staff for the television anime adaptation of Shizumu Watanabe's Dead Account manga revealed the anime's January 2026 debut in its first promotional video on Thursday. The video also reveals more cast and staff.
The staff additionally revealed a key visual for the series.
The anime will debut in January 2026 and will air on TV Asahi and its affiliates in the "IMAnimation" programming block that airs on Saturdays at 11:30 p.m.
New cast members include:
Keiya Saitō (Rokudo's Bad Girls) is directing the anime at Synergy SP. Mitsutaka Hirota (Edens Zero, Rent-A-Girlfriend) is overseeing the series scripts, and Keiji Inai (Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?, Why Raeliana Ended Up at the Duke's Mansion) is composing the music at Nippon Columbia.
Other staff members include:
- Art Directors: Seika Fujii, Saho Yamane (Kusanagi)
- Director of Photography: Haruka Serizawa (Asahi Production)
- Color Design: Eitarō Ano
- Editing: Yūsuke Ueno (Yanagi Editing Room)
- Sound Director: Ryōsuke Naya
The anime will star:
- Nobuhiko Okamoto as Soji Enishiro
- Kōki Uchiyama as Kukuru Kasubata
- Fairouz Ai as Kiyomi Urusugawa
The manga is set in a world where ghosts have also inhabited the Internet, following the tradition that ghosts linger on in places where they have strong attachments. The story centers on a Sōji Enishiro, a 15-year-old boy who also streams under the handle "Aoringo." He streams deliberately violent, clickbaity, and provocative content to get reactions and earn money, but it is all for the cause of taking care of his younger sister's medical bills. In real life, he is a simple boy who only loves to eat pudding and loves his sister, whom he would go to hell and back for. One time, while online, he is attacked by a ghost who resides in the online world, and it leaves him spiritually awakened. He is recruited by Miden Academy, a school specializing in training exorcists who tackle the digital realm. The manga is unrelated to Watanabe and Okushō's earlier Real Account manga.
Watanabe launched the manga in Weekly Shōnen Magazine in January 2023. The series moved to Kodansha's Magazine Pocket app in October 2023. Kodansha published the manga's 11th volume on June 17.
Kodansha's K MANGA service is publishing the manga in English digitally.
Watanabe and Okushō launched their Real Account manga in Kodansha's Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine in the February 2014 issue, and ended it in November 2019. Watanabe (Kono Kanojo wa Fiction desu) drew the art for the manga, and Okushō wrote the story. The manga switched to Weekly Shōnen Magazine in January 2015, but switched back in June 2018. Kodansha shipped the manga's 24th and final volume in December 2019. Kodansha USA Publishing is releasing the manga in English. Ren Kanan penned a Real Account 0 novel based on the manga that shipped in June 2019.
The manga had a live-action film adaptation in the works that was announced in 2018, but Kodansha confirmed earlier this year in March the adaptation has been canceled "due to various circumstances."
Sources: Dead Account anime's website, Nippon Columbia's YouTube channel
