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Crunchyroll Also Debuts Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction Series' English Dub
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The English dub cast includes:
- Giles Panton as Nobuo
- Michelle Creber as Kimika
- Lexi Ly as Hako
- Elyse Maloway as Kadode
- Graham Hamilton as Kohiruimaki
- Chelsea Miller as Futaba
- Travis Turner as Makoto
- Bill Newton as Hanazawa
- Michael Dobson as Editor
The English dub staff includes Karl Willem as voice director, with scripts adapted by Jack Cox, and English translation by Paul Baldwin. Konrad Piasecszny is the recording engineer, while Keith Goddard and Derek Simson are the re-recording mixers. Marc Matsumoto, Brian Gamblin, Joshua Stevenson, and Taylor Gervais are dialogue editors.
Crunchyroll will stream the 18 episodes weekly. Episodes will feature new footage not in the film versions.
The theme song for the first film "Zett-Zett-Zett-Zett- Zettai Seiiki" (Abababab Absolute Sanctuary) by ano feat. Lilas Ikuta is used in the television series.
The first film opened in Japan on March 22, and earned 83,773,890 yen (about US$553,300) in its first three days.
The second film opened on Friday, after it was delayed from April 19.
Lilas Ikuta (also known as "Ikura") voices main character Kadode Koyama, while ano voices main character Ouran "Ontan" Nakagawa.
Other cast members include:
- Atsumi Tanezaki as Kiho Kurihara
- Miyuri Shimabukuro as Ai Demoto
- Saeko Ooki as Rin Hirama
- Azumi Waki as Futaba Takemoto
- Ryoko Shiraishi as Makoto Tainuma
- Miyu Irino as Keita Ōba
- Kouki Uchiyama as Kenichi Kohiruimaki
- Taito Ban as Naoki Watarase
- Junichi Suwabe as Hiroshi Nakagawa
- Kenjiro Tsuda as Nobuo Koyama
- Tomokazu Sugita as Isobeyan
- The late TARAKO as Debeko
- Naoto Takenaka as head of the invaders
- Chiharu Sawashiro as Ojiro-senpai
- Saori Ōnishi as Hikari Sumaru
- Kenichirō Matsuda as Takarada
- Kengo Kawanishi as Tarō Miura
- Masafumi Kobatake as Ogino
Production +h. is producing the anime film — the first full-fledged anime adaptation of any work by Asano. Tomoyuki Kurokawa (Psychic Detective Yakumo, Break of Dawn, Dragonar Academy) is directing the films, and Reiko Yoshida (A Silent Voice, Violet Evergarden, Tamako Market) is writing and overseeing the series scripts. Nobutake Ito (The Tatami Galaxy, Kaiba, Kemonozume) is the character designer and chief animation director, Mika Nishimura (assistant art director for Dorohedoro) is the art director, and Taro Umebayashi (Space Dandy both seasons, Yuri!!! on Ice) is composing the music.
The theme song for the first film is "Zett-Zett-Zett-Zett- Zettai Seiiki" (Abababab Absolute Sanctuary) by ano feat. Lilas Ikuta. The theme song for the second film is "Seishun Ōka" (Adolescence Hymn) by Lilas Ikuta feat. ano.
The manga revolves around the strange everyday life of the very ordinary high school girl Kadode Koyama, her friend Ouran Nakagawa, and others in a world where a giant mothership has appeared over Tokyo.
Asano launched the series in Shogakukan's Weekly Big Comic Spirits magazine in April 2014. The manga ended in February 2022, and the manga's 12th and final compiled book volume shipped in March 2022.
The manga inspired a 3D animated promotional video in September 2020. The series won the Best General Manga award at the 66th Shogakukan Manga Awards in January 2021, and was honored in the manga category of the 25th Japan Media Arts Festival Awards in 2022.
Viz Media is releasing the manga in English.
Sources: Email correspondence, Crunchyroll (Liam Dempsey)
