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Dead Mount Death Play Anime's 2nd Promo Video Reveals April 10 Premiere
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
The official website for the television anime adaptation of Ryohgo Narita and Shinta Fujimoto's Dead Mount Death Play manga revealed the show's April 10 premiere and a second promotional video on Friday. The show's staff also revealed that the show will air for two cours (quarters of a year), but the two cours will be split. The show's second half will premiere in October.
The anime stars:
- Yuki Sakakihara as Polka Shinoyama
- Inori Minase as Misaki Sakimiya
- Yūma Uchida as Takumi Kuruya
- Takuya Eguchi as Tsubaki Iwanome
- Nobuhiko Okamoto as Gōzaburō Arase
- Atsumi Tanezaki as Lisa Kuraki
- Misato Fukuen as Koyū Azuma
- Kazuhiro Yamaji as Rozan Shinoyama
- Yō Taichi as Saya Shinoyama
- Rumi Okubo as Izuna Ajishiro
- Ikumi Hasegawa as Furuto Ichinose
- Haruka Shiraishi as Saki Aikawa
Manabu Ono (Sword Art Online: Alicization, Saki, Sakura Wars the Animation) is directing the anime, and is also supervising the series' scripts while penning them alongside Yukie Sugawara (Overlord, The Vampire Dies in No Time) and Yoriko Tomita (My Dress-Up Darling, As Miss Beelzebub likes it.). Takaharu Ōkuma (Diary of Our Days at the Breakwater) is credited as "sub-director," while Yoshiki Kitai is credited as the assistant director. GEEK TOYS is animating the series. Hisashi Abe (Chobits, Gunslinger Girl, Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System) is designing the characters. Takayuki Yamaguchi is the sound director. HALF H·P STUDIO is credited for sound production. F.M.F (Yūki Nara, eba, Kana Utatane) is composing the music.
Sou performs the opening theme song "Nero," and Inori Minase performs the ending theme song "Aolite."
Yen Press publishes the manga in English as chapters are released in Japan. Yen Press describes the manga's story:
It's a showdown for the ages as the legendary hero takes on the corpse god necromancer, but when the dust settles, something isn't quite right... In the final moments of their epic confrontation, the corpse god's final gambit shot was wholly unexpected -- reincarnation magic! Across space and time, a boy named Polka Shinoyama awakens feeling...not quite himself...... Who could've expected that the climactic battle between good and evil would turn out like this??
Narita (Baccano!, Durarara!!) and Fujimoto (Red Raven) launched the ongoing manga in Square Enix's Young Gangan magazine in October 2017.
Sources: Dead Mount Death Play anime's website, MoCa News, Comic Natalie
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