The official website of the upcoming two part anime film adaptation of Inio Asano’s Dead Dead Demon’s Dededede Destruction revealed a brand new trailer previewing the theme songs of the films sung by the lead cast members voicing the two main characters on Jan 17, 2024.
ano feat. Lilas Ikuta of YOASOBI performed the theme song ‘ZeZeZeZettaiteki Seiiki’ for the first film, while Lilas Ikuta feat. ano performed the theme song ‘Seishun Ouka’ for the second film.
The first part of Dead Dead Demon’s Dededede Destruction film will release on March 22, 2024, and the second part on April 19, 2024.
Cast includes:
- YOASOBI’s Lilas Ikuta as Kadode Koyama
- ano as Ouran Nakagawa
- Atsumi Tanezaki as Kiho Kurihara
- Miyuri Shimabukuro as Ai Demoto
- Saeko Ooki as Rin Hirama
- Azumi Waki as Futaba Takemoto
- Ryoko Shiraishi as Makoto Tainuma
- Miyu Irino as Keita Oba
- Kouki Uchiyama as Kenichi Kohiruimaki
- Taito Ban as Naoki Watarase
- Junichi Suwabe as Hiroshi Nakagawa
- Kenjiro Tsuda as Nobuo Koyama
Tomoyuki Kurokawa will be directing the films, with Reiko Yoshida in charge of scripts. Nobutake Ito will serve as character designer and chief animation director, and Mika Nishimura as the art director. Taro Umebayashi will compose music.
As previously revealed, Production +h. will be producing the anime films. This will be the first ever anime adaptation of Inio Asano’s works.
Dead Dead Demon’s Dededede Destruction is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Inio Asano. It was serialized in Shogakukan’s seinen manga magazine Big Comic Spirits from April 2014 to February 2022, with its chapters collected in 12 tankōbon volumes. In North America, Viz Media licensed the manga for English release.
By March 2022, Dead Dead Demon’s Dededede Destruction had over 3 million copies in circulation. In 2021, the manga won the 66th Shogakukan Manga Award in the general category, as well as the Excellence Award of the 25th Japan Media Arts Festival in 2022.
Source: Official Website