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Zombie Land Saga Anime Film Reveals New Cast Member, 'Climax Promo Video'

The staff for the Zombie Land Saga: Yumeginga Paradise (Dream Galactic Paradise) anime film project started streaming its "climax promotional video" on Wednesday. The video features a new song of the in-story idol group Franchouchou titled "Yūkyū Never Die" (Eternal Never Die).

The film's staff also announced that Daisuke Ono voices the new character Naomasa Amabuki, a staff member at the Saga Prefectural Space and Science Museum Yumeginga, the father of Maria Amabuki, and the husband of Saki Nikaidō's best friend Reiko.

Takafumi Ishida and Takeru Satō (both Zombie Land Saga episode directors) are directing the film at MAPPA. Shigeru Murakoshi (The Seven Deadly Sins: Four Knights of the Apocalypse) is writing the screenplay. Fumihide Sai, Jinshichi Yamaguchi (both chief animation directors for Zombie Land Saga), and Kasumi Fukagawa (character designer for Zombie Land Saga) are credited as character designers. Yasuharu Takanashi is returning to compose the music. Yuriko Waki returns as an animation producer.

MAPPA, Avex Pictures, and Cygames' Zombie Land Saga anime premiered in October 2018. Crunchyroll streamed the 12-episode series as it aired, and Funimation streamed an English dub.

The Zombie Land Saga Revenge sequel anime premiered in Japan in April 2021, and aired for 12 episodes. Crunchyroll streamed the sequel as it aired in Japan. Funimation began streaming an English dub in July 2021.

The anime follows Sakura Minamoto, who dreams of being an idol, but is hit by a car and wakes up as a zombie. A man named Kōtarō Tatsumi appears and tells her he's recruiting her into an idol group made up of zombies, dead girls he has "recruited" from several eras of Japanese history.

The anime inspired a stage play titled Zombie Land Saga Stage de Do-n! at Sōgetsu Hall in Tokyo in September 2020 with four performances. The play was originally scheduled to run in March 2020 in Tokyo with seven performances.

The anime inspired its first side story manga titled Zombie Land Saga Gaiden: The First Zombie by character designer Kasumi Fukagawa. The manga launched in Shueisha's Ultra Jump magazine in May 2021. The series ended with its third compiled book volume in December 2022.

Sources: Zombie Land Saga: Yumeginga Paradise anime film's X/Twitter account, Comic Natalie