The official web site for the 2-half anime movie adaptation of Inio Asano‘s Dead Dead Demon’s Dededede (*19*) manga introduced the voice forged for the movies’ two most important leads, as properly as the movies’ March 22 and April 19 (for the primary and second movie, respectively) opening dates on Monday. YOASOBI singer Lilas Ikuta (additionally identified as “Ikura“) will voice most important character Kadode Koyama, whereas singer ano will voice most important character Ouran “Ontan” Nakagawa.

dedede_leads — Image through Dead Dead Demon’s Dededede Destruction anime’s website

cast — Image through Dead Dead Demon’s Dededede Destruction anime’s website

Other forged members embrace:
(Top row, left to proper in picture above)

(Bottom row, left to proper in picture above)

dead-dead — © 浅野いにお／小学館／DeDeDeDe Committee

The movies will open in spring 2024. (*22*) +h. is producing the anime — the primary full-fledged anime adaptation of any work by Asano.

Tomoyuki Kurokawa (Psychic Detective Yakumo, Break of Dawn, Dragonar Academy) is directing the movies, and Reiko Yoshida (A Silent Voice, Violet Evergarden, Tamako Market) is writing and overseeing the sequence scripts. Nobutake Ito (The Tatami Galaxy, Kaiba, Kemonozume) is the character designer and chief animation director, Mika Nishimura (assistant artwork director for Dorohedoro) is the artwork director, and Taro Umebayashi (Space Dandy each seasons, Yuri!!! on Ice) is composing the music.

The manga revolves across the unusual on a regular basis lifetime of the very odd highschool lady Kadode Koyama, her good friend Ouran Nakagawa, and others in a world the place an enormous mothership has appeared over Tokyo.

Asano launched the sequence in Shogakukan‘s Weekly Big Comic Spirits journal in April 2014. Asano put the manga on hiatus typically since July 2014. The manga led to February 2022, and the manga’s twelfth and remaining quantity shipped on March 2022.

The manga impressed a 3D animated promotional video in September 2020. The sequence received the Best General Manga award on the 66th Shogakukan Manga Awards in January 2021, and was honored within the manga class of the twenty fifth Japan Media Arts Festival Awards in 2022.

Viz Media is releasing the manga in English. Viz Media additionally revealed Asano’s earlier sequence Solanin, What a beautiful world!, Downfall, and Goodnight Punpun. Fantagraphics Books revealed Asano’s horror manga Nijigahara Holograph in 2014, and Vertical Comics revealed Asano’s A Girl on the Shore manga in 2016. Solanin, A Girl on the Shore, and Downfall all all impressed dwell-motion movies.