We’ve known since last summer that an anime adaptation is in the works with Yoko Tamotsu’s series Mayonaka no Occult Komuin. After getting news recently that the manga will be getting a bundled OAD this fall, the official site has now updated with a new promotional video that has revealed an April 7th, 2019 debut on multiple networks for it. Tetsuya Watanabe is directing it and Higuchi Tatsumi handling the series composition. Yuko Ito is working on character designs.
The Japanese cast includes:
- Jun Fukuyama as Shim Miyako
- Tomoaki Maeno as Kyōichi Sakaki
- Miyu Irino as Theo Himezuka
- Koji Yusa as Reiji Senda
- Takahiro Sakurai as Satoru Kanoichi
- Shun’ichi Toki as Huehuecóyotl
- Kazutomi Yamamoto as Yuki
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH7v76sh9GE
The series kicked off back in the spring of 2015 in Monthly Asuka magazine and has eight volumes out as of this week. It’s also got a novelization that came out on July 25th, 2018.
Check out the official site and Twitter.
Plot Concept: Arata Miyako is a new government worker assigned to the Shinjuku Ward Office’s “Nighttime Regional Relations” department. Each of Tokyo’s 23 wards has one such department, which were established to solve paranormal and occult-related events. Arata can understand non-human speech that no one else understands, and he encounters a yōkai (supernatural entity) at Shinjuku Gyoen park that calls him Abe no Seimei — the name of a historical Japanese occultist and diviner.
