The website for the upcoming anime adaptation of Shizumu Watanabe’s Dead Account manga has released a new promotional video, along with a key visual and details on new staff members. The website also confirmed the Dead Account anime’s January 10 release date.
Check out the video below:
The video previews the opening theme song “Dead End,” which will be performed by Haru Igarashi, and the ending theme song “Raise wa Dōse” (In the Next Life Anyway) by Miyu Kaneko.
The cast of the Dead Account anime includes:
- Nobuhiko Okamoto as Soji Enishiro
- Kōki Uchiyama as Kukuru Kasubata
- Fairouz Ai as Kiyomi Urusugawa
- Natsuki Hanae as Renri Hasumi
- Machico as Hiyori Haijima
- Ryōta Suzuki as Maruhiko Emoto
- Takuya Satō as Yoimaru Azaki
- Fumiya Imai as Dei Surugi(new)
- Gen Sato as Minoru Wagari (new)
- Maaya Uchida as Eru Kusaba (new)
- Kentarō Kumagai as Ikko Owada (new)
- Masaya Miyazaki as Kiri Namekawa(new)
- Jun Fukuyama as Ban Ashina (new)
Keiya Saitō, known for his work on Rokudo’s Bad Girls, is directing the anime at Synergy SP. Mitsutaka Hirota is handling the series scripts, and Keiji Inai is composing the music at Nippon Columbia. Ryōsuke Naya will serve as the sound director while Haruka Serizawa joins as director of photography. Eitarō Ano is handling color design, and Yūsuke Ueno handles editing. Seika Fujii and Saho Yamane will serve as art directors.”
Kodansha’s K MANGA service publishes the series in English. It describes it as follows:
Always ready for a fight! Destruction for destruction’s sake! The online streamer Aoringo is a troll, making the worst of the worst of boundary-pushing flamebait content and raking in the revenue from the hate-watchers.
You may think he’s nothing more than a bottom feeder and a drain on society, but in reality, he’s high school dropout Soji Enishiro, a caring older brother with a sweet tooth who loves nothing more than his little sister. His viral videos?
Just a way to pay his sister’s medical bills. And even if all of humanity hates him, he doesn’t care, so long as his little sister gets better. But then, something very strange begins to happen… Don’t miss the debut of this modern-day occult exorcism battle manga!
