The staff for the upcoming anime adaptation of Haruomi Tomotsuka’s Dara-san of Reiwa (Reiwa no Dara-san) manga revealed a new trailer, additional cast members, and the anime’s July 2 release date. The trailer also reveals and previews the ending theme song, “Hinatabocchi” by REIRIE.
Newly announced cast members include:
- Aoi Koga as Amane Hasegawa
- Tomokazu Sugita as Naomichi Fudeki
- Mai Aizawa as Miwa Ikago
- Saori Hayami as Older sister Shrine Maiden
- Hōchū Ōtsuka as Orochi
Previously announced cast members include Mutsumi Tamura as Dara-san, Minami Tsuda as Hinata Misogiya, and Momoka Terasawa as Kaoru Misogiya.
Tadato Suzuki, known for his work on Gushing Over Magical Girls, will be directing the Dara-san of Reiwa anime at Asahi Production. Koichi Kikuta is handling the character design, and Rei Ishizuka is composing the music. Lantis is credited for music production.
Additional staff members include:
- Series Script Supervisor: Noburo Kimura, Yasunori Yamada
- Costume Design: Yoshiko Takemoto, Yui Ushinohama, Ririka Yamazaki
- Ghost Design: Ryūji Watarai
- Prop Design: Rie Ikegami
- Color Key Artist: Hayato Yoshida
- Art Setting: Kayoko Tomono, Miho Norisue, Shūichi Ōkubo
- Art Directors: Yukiko Maruyama, Teruko Takekoshi
- Art: Atelier Musa
- Compositing Director of Photography: Wen Xin He
- Photography: Asahi Production
- Editing: Ami Ishii
- Sound Director: Kazuki Kuwahara
- Sound Production: INSPION Edge
Haruomi Tomotsuka started drawing the manga on X (formerly Twitter) in October 2019, and later released compiled book volumes of the manga at Comic Market (Comiket). Kadokawa releases the manga digitally on its ComicWalker website.
Lastly, here’s an overview of the series via Yen Press:
Two young children stand before the veil of life and death, and a many-armed terror opens a breach, stretches wide its many-fanged maw…and invites them in for a sleepover! And that’s not all, folks! Dara-san’s gonna have some fun in the sun at summer festivals, try toy-model making, and more! Somehow, an unknowable horror from beyond the black woods of untold history has ended up as the straight man in this silly spookfest!
