After teasing an announcement recently, some of Yama Wayama’s manga works are getting anime adaptations at the same time. One of those is the Karaoke Iko! series that’s released in English through Yen Press as Let’s Go Karaoke!
While we knew it had July plans previously, it’s now been confirmed that the series will debut on July 24th, 2025, through TV Tokyo and others over the next few days in Japan.
The adaptation has Asami Nakatani directing it with Yukiko Tsuakahara as the assistant director. Yoshimi Narita is handling the scripts with Mai Matsuura as the character designer. Doga Kobo is handling the animation adaptation.
The Japanese cast includes:
- Shun Horie as Satomi Oka
- Daisuke Ono as Kyouji Narita
- Shinnosuke Tokudome will voice Wada
The manga for this began in 2019 and saw a live-action film in 2024.
Please note: We are doing separate pieces on the two Yama Wayama anime projects so people looking for information on one of them don’t have to look through a double-show article to find what they’re looking for and to highlight each project on its own.
Check out the official site and Twitter.
Plot Concept: Nothing worries Satomi Oka more than the upcoming final choir competition of his middle school career — right up until he is accosted by a stranger from the shadows who demands, “Let’s go karaoke!” As a yakuza, Kyouji Narita doesn’t scare easily, but a terrifying prospect has driven him to seek Satomi’s help. The boss is holding a karaoke contest, with the loser forced to get a tattoo to be selected and torturously applied by the boss himself! Oka has been to many vocal rehearsals over the years, but never one-on-one karaoke sessions with a gangster!!
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