The first TV commercial for the Dance with Devils anime adaptation has begun streaming last Wednesday from Game developer Rejet.
The story revolves around Ritsuka Tachibana, a female second-year high school student who attends Shiko Academy in Shiko Town. She enjoyed her school life while living with her mother Maria, but one day, that balance fell into ruin. The anime is a story of Ritsuka being loved and being attracted to demons.
The project has been announced in February by game developer Rejet, music production studio Elements Garden, and the music production company Avex. The anime will start on October.
The characters and voice cast include:
- Himika Akaneya as Ritsuka Tachibana, 16-year-old second-year high school student. She is an utterly ordinary girl who lives with her mother.
- Sōma Saitō as Rem Kaginuki, a young man who is the president of Shikō Academy, but is in fact a devil. He has a hard-working personality, but also has a cool personality.
- Wataru Hatano as Lind Tachibana, a third-year in high school and the heroine Rikka’s elder brother. He is an exorcist who hunts devils, and has a cool and stoic personality.
- Takashi Kondo as Urie Sogami, a devil and the vice president of Shikō Academy. He is an elite dream devil who is known by people all throughout the devil world, and is very popular with the ladies.
- Subaru Kimura as Mage Nanashiro, a devil and the secretary of the Shikō Academy student council. A confident and self-centered young man, he lives impulsively.
- Daisuke Hirakawa as Shiki Natsumezaka, a fallen angel and the treasurer of the Shikō Academy student council. He is a strange person even within the academy, and is always aloof.
Directing the anime is Ai Yoshimura at Brains Base while Tomoko Konparu is the one handling the series scripts based on the original concept by Rejet’s Daisuke Iwasaki and the original story by Grimoire Henshūshitsu. Composing the music is Elements Garden and producing it are Elements Gardern’s Junpei Fujita and DIVE II Entertainment. Providing the original character designs is Hirotaka Maeda from Rejet while Yuka Takashina is adapting it into anime.
The opening theme song “Kakusei no Air” will be perform by Wataru Hatanoand Pentacle★, a unit composed of the main voice actors Sōma Saitō, Hatano, Takashi Kondo, Subaru Kimura, and Daisuke Hirakawa, is performing the ending theme song “Mademo★iselle.“
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