The spring 2023 anime adaptation of the Dead Mount Death Play manga from Ryohgo Narita is getting its home video release in Japan handled by King Records. They’ve opted to go the box set route for this with the full twelve-episode run set for a September 20th, 2023 release where it’ll be priced at 25,000 yen.
The two-disc set will also come with an original soundtrack CD and the on-disc extras will be revealed later.
With the first cour set coming up in just over a month, we now have a preview of the cover artwork for it.
The adaptation has set Manabu Ono to direct it while also overseeing the scripts with Yuki Sugiwara and Yoriko Tomita. Hisashi Abe is on board as the character designer with GEEK TOYS handling the animation production.
The Japanese cast includes Yuki Sakakihara as Polka Shinoyama, Inori Minase as Misaki Sakimiya, Yūma Uchida as Takumi Kuruya, Takuya Eguchi as Tsubaki Iwanome, Nobuhiko Okamoto as Gōzaburō Arase, Atsumi Tanezaki as Lisa Kuraki, Misato Fukuen as Koyū Azuma, Kazuhiro Yamaji as Rozan Shinoyama, Yō Taichi as Saya Shinoyama, Rumi Okubo as Izuna Ajishiro, Ikumi Hasegawa as Furuto Ichinose, and Haruka Shiraishi as Saki Aikawa.
Sou is on board to perform the opening theme song “Nero” while Inori Minase performs the ending theme song “Aolite.”
The manga from Ryohgo Narita began in 2017 and has ten volumes out as of this month in Japan. Yen Press releases it in English with a simulpub.
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Plot Concept: It’s a showdown for the ages as the legendary hero takes on the corpse god necromancer, but when the dust settles, something isn’t quite right… In the final moments of their epic confrontation, the corpse god’s final gambit shot was wholly unexpected — reincarnation magic! Across space and time, a boy named Polka Shinoyama awakens feeling…not quite himself…… Who could’ve expected that the climactic battle between good and evil would turn out like this??
[Source: Dead Mount Death Play]
