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Dimension High School Live-Action/Anime Hybrid Show Reveals More Cast
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
The official website for the Chōjigen Kakumei Anime: Dimension High School (Super-Dimensional Revolution Anime - Dimension High School) original live-action/anime television show revealed two more cast members and a teaser visual on Monday.
The new cast includes:
Takuya Eguchi as Spudio the 22nd, a talking meteorite who holds the key to the story
Junichi Suwabe as Sphinx, a god of destruction who aims to subjugate the 3D world
The show will have both live-action and anime parts, with Yuuichi Abe (Carino Coni, The Girl in Twilight) as director, and Izumi (Touken Ranbu) as character designer. Polygon Pictures is animating the 3DCG animation parts, and the actors themselves are performing motion capture for the animation.
The show will premiere in January on Tokyo MX.
The previously revealed cast includes: (left to right in image above)
- Takuma Zaiki as Tsuyoshi Kikawada
- Shōhei Hashimoto as Yurio Mizukami
- Takahide Ishii as Junpei Shiroyama
- Takeo Ōtsuka as Ryūsei Midorigaoka
- Toshiyuki Someya as Sōshi Momoya
The show's story centers on five high school boys who are taking remedial classes, when they are suddenly sent across dimensions to an anime world. The story develops as they cross between both the real and anime worlds.
Ai Nimoda will launch a manga adaptation on the pixiv Sylph website in December. The show also has a radio program titled Dimension High School - Hōkago Jishūshitsu (After School Private Study Room) that debuted on October 19 on Radio Osaka, Radio Cloud, and Nico Nico Channel, with Ishii and Ōtsuka as hosts.
Sources: Dimension High School project's website, Anime! Anime! (仲瀬 コウタロウ)
