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Crunchyroll debuted the English dub of the new television series version of the two-part anime adaptation of Inio Asano's Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction manga on Thursday. The first episode dubbed in English was released along with the first episode with English subtitles.
The English voice cast includes:
The English dubbing team includes Karl Willem as voice director, with a script adapted by Jack Cox and English translation by Paul Baldwin. Konrad Piasecszny was the recording engineer, while Keith Goddard and Derek Simson were the re-recording mixers. Marc Matsumoto, Brian Gamblin, Joshua Stevenson and Taylor Gervais are the dialogue editors.
Crunchyroll will air 18 episodes weekly. The episodes will feature new footage not found in the film version.
Theme song for the first movie”Zett-Zett-Zett-Zett-Zettai Seiiki”(Abababab Absolute Sanctuary) by ano feat. Lilas Ikuta is used in the television series.
The first film opened in Japan on March 22 and grossed 83,773,890 yen (about US$553,300) in the first three days.
The second part of the film premiered on Friday, after being delayed from April 19.
Lilas Ikuta (also known as “Ikura”) voices main character Kadode Koyama, while ano voices main character Ouran”Ontan”Nakagawa.
Other cast members include:
Production +h. is producing the anime film — the first full anime adaptation of any of Asano's works. Tomoyuki Kurokawa (Psychic Detective Yakumo, Break of Dawn, Dragonar Academy) will direct the film, and Reiko Yoshida (A Silent Voice, Violet Evergarden, Tamako Market) will write and supervise the film's script. Nobutake Ito (The Tatami Galaxy, Kaiba, Kemonozume) is the character designer and animation director, Mika Nishimura (assistant art director for Dorohedoro) is the art director, and Taro Umebayashi (Space Dandy both seasons , Yuri!!! on Ice) is composing music.
The theme song for the first movie is “Zett-Zett-Zett-Zett-Zettai Seiiki”(Abababab Absolute Sanctuary) by ano feat. Lilas Ikuta. The second film's theme song is “Seishun Ōka” (Hymn of Youth) by Lilas Ikuta feat. ano.
The manga revolves around the strange daily lives of very ordinary high school girl Kadode Koyama, her friend Ouran Nakagawa and others in a world where a giant mother ship has appeared over Tokyo. .
Asano launched the series in Shogakukan's Weekly Big Comic Spirits magazine in April 2014. The manga ended in February 2022, and the 12th and final volume of the manga was published in March 2022.
The manga inspired a 3D animated promotional video in September 2020. The series won the Best General Manga award at the 66th Shogakukan Manga Awards in January 2021 and was honored in the manga category of the 25th Japan Media Arts Festival Awards in 2022.
Viz Media is releasing the manga in English.
Source: Email Correspondence, Crunchyroll (Liam Dempsey)