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Rokudo's Bad Girls Anime's 2nd Promo Video Previews Opening Theme Song
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The official website for the television anime of Yūji Nakamura's Rokudo's Bad Girls (Rokudō no Onna-tachi) manga began streaming the second promotional video on Wednesday. The video previews the opening theme song "ENDLESS LABYRINTH" by the newly formed rock vocal unit EverdreaM. EverdreaM is comprised of voice actresses Misato Matsuoka and Hitomi Sekine who portray Tsubaki and Mizue Tsuyukusa in the anime, respectively.
The anime will premiere on the TOKYO MX channel on April 7 at 25:35 JST (effectively April 8 at 1:35 a.m. or April 7 at 12:35 p.m. EDT), then on MBS, BS Asahi, AT-X, and Kumamoto Kenmin Televisions.
The cast includes:
- Gen Sato as Tо̄suke Rokudо̄
- Sumire Uesaka as Ranna Himawari
- Naomi Ōzora as Sayuri Osanada
- Yuki Yomichi as Azami Himeno
- Misato Matsuoka as Tsubaki
- Hitomi Sekine as Mizue Tsuyukusa
- Haruki Ishiya as Haruya Iinuma
- Daisuke Namikawa as Masaru Hinomoto
- Akira Ishida as Kota Kijima
- Mayuko Kazama as Yui Yashiya
- Yuri Komagata as Erika Otohime
- Hiroki Nanami as Aoi Furukawa
- Daiki Yamashita as Dо̄ji Matsugamiya
Reina Ueda will play three roles: Raino, Kazeno, and Amano, who are the Sumire triplets.
Keiya Saitō (Baki) is directing the anime at Satelight, and Yūichirō Momose (So I'm a Spider, So What?, Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer) is in charge of the series scripts. Shin'ya Segawa (Pastel Memories) is designing the characters. Hideaki Onishi is handling sub-character design, and Hiroyuki Taiga (Transformers: Robots in Disguise, FUUTO PI) is in charge of mechanical designs. Yasuyoshi Uetsu (Triage X) and Tomoaki Chishima are credited for prop design.
Kenichi Tajiri (The tale of outcasts) is the art director, and Yoshimi Kawakami (Fairy Tail) is the color key artist. Yūjirō Yamane (Bodacious Space Pirates) is the compositing director of photography, and Shūji Matsumoto (Girly Air Force) is editing. Hiroshi Yamamoto (Yu-Gi-Oh! Go Rush!!) is the sound director.
Nakamura launched the manga in Akita Shoten's Weekly Shōnen Champion magazine in June 2016, and ended it in April 2021. Akita Shoten published the manga's 26th and final compiled book volume in June 2021.
The manga follows Tо̄suke Rokudо̄, a timid high school boy who gets bullied by delinquents. He receives a scroll from his late grandfather, leaving a mark on his forehead. The mark's effect causes a delinquent girl named Ranna Himawari to fall in love with him.
Sources: Rokudo's Bad Girls anime's website, Comic Natalie
