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Detectives These Days Are Crazy! Anime's New Video Unveils More Staff, Ending Song, July 1 Debut

Kadokawa began streaming a new promotional video for the television anime of Masakuni Igarashi's Detectives These Days Are Crazy! (Mattaku Saikin no Tantei Tokitara) manga on Friday. The video announces more staff members, the ending theme song, and July 1 premiere date for the anime.

The newly announced staff members are:

• Art Director: Sōshi Kuwashima (Kusanagi)
• Art Setting: Hideyasu Narita (Kusanagi), Kana Arai
• Color Key Artist: Ayako Aihara
• Prop Design: Makoto Etō
• 2D Design: Misato Kuramochi, Saki Masuda (Asahi Production)
• 3D CG: SANZIGEN
• Compositing Director of Photography: Naho Hasegawa (Asahi Production)
• Editing: Misaki Enokids (EditZ)

The characters Mashiro and the "Jolly Old Men" (Yukai na Ojisan), as voiced by Kana Hanazawa and Tomokazu Sugita, are performing the ending theme song "GORI☆GORI Feez e-Girl!!"

The anime will premiere on the AT-X channel on July 1 at 11:30 p.m. (10:30 a.m. EDT), and it will also run on the Tokyo MX, Sun TV, KBS Kyoto, and BS11 channels as well as on the ABEMA streaming service (followed by other services).

Behold, a great detective who thrills the world solving impossible cases in no time! His name? Keiichiro Nagumo. …But all of that was over a decade ago. Now he's just your typical middle-aged dude. Nagumo is behind the times to the point that he doesn't even know what a smartphone is. But out of the blue, he is confronted by a high school girl named Mashiro who shows up wanting to be his assistant. Witness the miracles a gender-gap detective duo can make!

The anime will star:

• Junichi Suwabe as Keiichirō Nagumo
• Kana Hanazawa as Mashiro
• Tomohiro Yamaguchi as Yū Asunaro
• Aya Hirano as Hana Kazamaki
• Tomokazu Sugita as Nipple-Tasting Man, Cross Chest Hair Man, and Man Who Likes Ropes
• Chado Horii as Cerberus
• Kengo Kawanishi as Tarō Nezu
• Fairouz Ai as Azuha Hoshino
• Misaki Watada as Fū-chan
• Yasuyuki Kase as Sōya Mimasaka
• Hajime Iijima as Coach

Rion Kujo (Love Doll, Samurai Harem, Aesthetica of a Rogue Hero) is directing the anime at LIDEN FILMS. Rintarō Ikeda (The Seven Deadly Sins: Dragon's Judgement, Insomniacs After School) is overseeing the series scripts. Isoroku Koga (Call of the Night animation director) is the character designer and chief animation director. Yasunori Ebina is the sound director, Hiromune Kurahashi from Otonarium is in charge of the sound effects, and Tomoki Kikuya is composing the music at KADOKAWA.

Taiiku Okazaki performs the opening theme song "Suffer."

Igarashi (Senryū Girl, Tune In to the Midnight Heart) launched the manga in Kadokawa's Dengeki Maoh magazine in April 2016. Kadokawa published the manga's first volume in July 2016, and the 15th volume on August 27.

Source: Press release