Netflix announced the cast and November 28 premiere date for the first anime adaptation of Baku Yumemakura’s novel Onmyōji on Friday.
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The cast includes (left to right in the image above):
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Soubi Yamamoto (Meganebu!, This Boy/Kono Danshi series) is directing the anime, and Natsu Hashimoto (Oshiete Hokusai!: The Animation) and Yuiko Katō (Agū: Tensai Ningyō) are writing the script. Marvy Jack is producing the anime.
Yumemakura first wrote the series as a series of short stories starting in 1986. He then wrote three full-length novels for the series in 2000-2008. The series also includes several picture books.
The stories take place in a fictionalized version of Japan’s Heian period and focus on real-life onmyoji Abe no Seimei.
The novels inspired the live-action Onmyouji and Onmyoji II films in 2001 and 2003. Reiko Okano drew a 13-volume manga adaptation of the series starting in 1994. The books has also inspired several live-action series in Japan.
Source: Netflix anime Twitter accountComic Natalie