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The Detective Is Already Dead TV Anime Confirmed With Cast, Staff

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The official website for the television anime of Nigojū and Umibōzu's The Detective Is Already Dead (Tantei wa Mō, Shindeiru.) light novel series opened on Wednesday and announced the main cast and staff.

The main cast members are:

Shin Nagai as Kimihiko Kimizuka

Saki Miyashita as Siesta

Ayana Taketatsu as Nagisa Natsunagi

Kanon Takao as Yui Saikawa

Saho Shirasu as Charlotte Arisaka Anderson

Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Kōmori (not pictured)

Takehito Koyasu as Chameleon (not pictured)

Manabu Kurihara (Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out! character designer/chief animation director) is directing the anime at ENGI, and Deko Akao (Arakawa Under the Bridge, Suppose a Kid From the Last Dungeon Boonies Moved to a Starter Town) is in charge of the series scripts. Yōsuke Itō (Hensuki, Holmes of Kyoto, King's Game The Animation) is designing the characters.

Umibōzu and manga artists Mugiko, poni, and Moyashi Ime drew illustrations to celebrate the anime news:

The novels center around Kimihiko Kimizuka, a third-year high school student and former assistant of a detective named Siesta. He made Siesta's acquaintance three years ago, 10,000 meters above the ground in a hijacked plane. The two went on one death-defying adventure after another for three years that eventually ended with Siesta's untimely death. Left alone, Kimihiko tries his best to reintegrate himself back into a normal life.

Nigojū published the first volume in the light novel series with illustrations by Umibōzu in November 2019 under Kadokawa's MF Bunko J imprint. The novel won the 15th MF Bunko J newcomer award in 2019. Kadokawa published the novels' fourth volume in November 2020. Mugiko launched a manga adaptation of the novels in Monthly Comic Alive in May 2020, and Kadokawa published the manga's first compiled book volume in November 2020.

Yen Press announced on January 16 that it will start publishing the novels in English in June.

Source: Moca News


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