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Onmyo Kaiten Re:Birth Verse Anime Casts Tomoaki Maeno
posted on by Joanna Cayanan
The staff for Onmyo Kaiten Re:Birth Verse, david production's first original television anime, revealed a new cast member on Tuesday. Tomoaki Maeno will voice the character Kunihito, a passionate man who lived as a public order official in Heian-kyō 1,000 years ago. The character will appear in the series' 10th episode on Wednesday.
Previously announced cast members include:
- Taihi Kimura as Takeru Narehira
- Maaya Uchida as Tsukimiya
- Ryōhei Kimura as Abe no Seimei
- Kaito Ishikawa as Atsunaga
- Anna Nagase as Yura
- Marina Inoue as Kazura
- Chihaya Yoshitake as Shino
The anime is set in an alternate version of Heian-kyō, the old name of Kyoto and the capital during Japan's Heian era. This alternate version of the city is named Denji Heian-kyō (The Tranquil Capital of Divine Lightning). A delinquent high schooler named Takeru Narehira resides in our world, but after an unfortunate accident, is transported to Denji Heian-kyō. Here, he immediately meets Tsukimiya, a woman he has seen many times before in his dreams before. Hardly a moment passes after that encounter when Takeru and Tsukimiya encounter an oni monster, and lose their lives. Takeru awakens, stunned to find himself again at Denji Heian-kyō. He puts together that he has the power to go back in time. Now he resolves to learn this world's version of mystical onmyōjutsu techniques, and become an onmyōji sorcerer to save Tsukimiya.
Fujiko Sakuno and Kyūjō Matsumoto launched the anime's manga adaptation in Kodansha's Morning two magazine on February 6. The manga's first compiled book volume shipped on June 23, and the second volume will release on October 23.
Hideya Takahashi (Keijo!!!!!!!!, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind, Urusei Yatsura) is directing the anime at david production, and is also credited with the original story concept. Light novel author Akutō Satō is credited for the original plot concept. Hayashi Mori (Cells at Work! Code Black, Sand Land: The Series) is in charge of the series scripts. Kazuaki Morita (Tsuki ga Kirei, Classroom of the Elite, Carnival Phantasm) is designing the characters. Katsuie Shibata is credited for worldbuilding and research. Kitsuneiro is credited for concept art. Masahiro Tokuda is composing the music.
Who-ya Extended performs the opening theme song "Cry Out Cry Over," and 9Lana performs the ending theme song "Turn Over."
Sources: Onmyō Kaiten Re:verse anime's X/Twitter account, Comic Natalie
