The official website for the two-part anime film adaptation of Inio Asano’s Dededede Destruction manga has announced the voice actors for the film’s two main characters, as well as March 22 and April 19 dates (for the first time). and the second film) opens on Monday. YOASOBI singer Lilas Ikuta (also known as “Ikura”) will voice main character Kadode Koyama, while singer ano will voice main character Ouran”Ontan”Nakagawa.
Image via Dead Dead Demon’s Dededede Destruction anime website
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Image via Dead Dead Demon’s Dededede Destruction anime website
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Other cast members include: (Top row, left to right in image above)
(Bottom row, left to right in image above) 
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The films will open in spring 2024. Production +h. is producing an anime — the first full anime adaptation of any of Asano’s works.
Tomoyuki Kurokawa (Psychic Detective Yakumo, Break of Dawn, Dragonar Academy) will direct the films and Reiko Yoshida (A Silent Voice, Violet Evergarden, Tamako Market) is writing and supervising the series’ scripts. 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 manga revolves around the strange daily life 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. Asano has been on a regular hiatus since July 2014. The manga ended in February 2022, with the 12th and final volume of the manga. published in March 2022.
The manga was inspired by 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 at the Japanese manga category 25th 2022 Media Arts Festival Awards.
Viz Media is releasing the manga in English. Viz Media also published Asano Solanin’s previous series What a Wonderful World!, Downfall and Goodnight Punpun. Fantagraphics Books published Asano’s horror manga Nijigahara Holograph in 2014, and Vertical Comics published Asano’s A Girl on the Shore manga in 2016. Solanin, A Girl on the Shore, and Downfall are all live-action films. action inspired.
Source: Dead Demon anime website, Natalie Comics
