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Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction Anime Premieres in India on May 24
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Crunchyroll will stream the 18 episodes weekly. Episodes will feature new footage not in the film versions.
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 May 24, 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
- Kōki Uchiyama as Kenichi Kohiruimaki
- Taito Ban as Naoki Watarase
- Junichi Suwabe as Hiroshi Nakagawa
- Kenjirō 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
The theme song for the first film "Zett-Zett-Zett-Zett- Zettai Seiiki" (Abababab Absolute Sanctuary) by ano feat. Lilas Ikuta will be used in the television series.
Production +h. produced the anime films — the first full-fledged anime adaptation of any work by Asano. Tomoyuki Kurokawa (Psychic Detective Yakumo, Break of Dawn, Dragonar Academy) directed the films, and Reiko Yoshida (A Silent Voice, Violet Evergarden, Tamako Market) wrote and oversaw the series scripts. Nobutake Ito (The Tatami Galaxy, Kaiba, Kemonozume) was the character designer and chief animation director, Mika Nishimura (assistant art director for Dorohedoro) was the art director, and Taro Umebayashi (Space Dandy both seasons, Yuri!!! on Ice) composed the music.
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.
Source: Press release
