A new anime adaptation has arrived after the January 2023 announcement that Nujima’s Kaii to Otome to Kamikakushi manga is in the works. The series had set an April 10th, 2024 premiere previously and Crunchyroll made their pickup of it with the first episode going live at 10:00 AM EDT on the service. It’s available to viewers worldwide excluding Japan and China.
The latest update has come in from the production itself with the first preview of the second episode ahead of the April 17th, 2024 premiere.
Tomomi Mochizuki is directing the show and working on the series composition. Takuya Tani is handling the character designs with studio Zero-G handling the animation production.
The Japanese cast includes:
- Fairouz Ai as Sumireko Ogawa
- Daiki Yamashita as Ren Adashino
- Eri Yukimura as Oto Adashino
- Yui Horie as Manami Uname
- Rie Takahashi as Shizuku
- Saya Aizawa as Nodoka Ametsuchi
- Yūya Uchida as Jikū no Ossan
- Naomi Ozara as Jormun Himeuo
- Masako Nozawa as an ekikakariin
The series features the opening theme song is “Hazard Symbol” performed by Yuyu and the ending theme song is “Shulu Somete Shinzo” as performed by Nonoka Obuchi.
The manga from Nujima began in 2019 as serialized in Yawaraka Spirits for Shogakukan and it has five volumes released so far and is ongoing in Japan. It has not been picked up for release in English.
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Plot Concept: Mysterious incidents in a city, one after the other. A demonic being is challenged to resolve them. Sumireko, seemingly a plain store clerk, aspires to be a novelist and rocks an alluring body with some ardent admirers. One such admirer, Adashino, is a bookstore clerk. He’s steeped in mystery, however, until the path of challenges revealed that he and his sister must face in the city in order to win their ticket back home, outside this world. A story of modern mysteries and city romantic aspirations begins!
