The new issue of Jump Square magazine is landing and early nods out of it reveal some good stuff happening with the upcoming anime adaptation of Twin Star Exorcists. According to the magazine, the series has been scheduled for an April 2016 premiere as part of the spring season. In addition to that, two more actors have been revealed to be involved in the production. Yu Serizawa has joined as Mayura Otomi and Junichi Suwabe is on board as Seigen Amakawa.
The series is directed by Tomohisa Taguchi, who has worked on a lot of Persona works recently, with animation being done at Studio Pierrot as we previously knew. Shisho Igarashi is on board as the assistant director and they’re working off of the series composition from Naruhisa Arakawa. Character designs are handled by Kikuko Sadakata.
The cast announced so far includes:
- Natsuki Hanae as Roku Enmadou
- Megumi Han as Benio Adashino
- Ayumu Murase as Yuto Ijika
- Yu Serizawa as Mayura Otomi
- Junichi Suwabe as Seigen Amakawa
Wagakki Band will be doing the opening theme song for it.
Originally kicking off at the end of 2013, the title has produced six volumes so far. Six volumes gives it enough room to work with at least one season for the property.
Yoshiaki Sukeno’s previous series, the supernatural manga comedy Binbougami ga!, was adapted into the anime Good Luck Girl in 2012. Viz Media is releasing the manga in North America for Twin Star Exorcists.
Plot concept: Beings from the dark realm of Magano creep into our world and can only be expelled by talented exorcists. Rokuro is from a family of exorcists, but after a terrible disaster, he’d rather be a singer, a soccer player or anything else! He’s forced to own up to his incredible potential by the arrival of Benio, an exorcist who’s more than his match and stirs his competitive spirit. When neither can top the other in supernatural combat, they earn the title of “Twin Star Exorcists” – two supreme fighters fated to marry and birth the ultimate spiritual warrior. Will these rivals fall in love? The fate of two worlds hangs in the balance!
[Source: ANN]