Rika Fukami and Daisuke Hirakawa are joining the voice cast of the ongoing Monogatari Series: Off & Monster Season anime series. The anime began streaming weekly in Japan on July 6, 2024 and is currently broadcasting its Wazamonogatari chapter, which first aired on August 24, 2024.
Fukami is voicing Deathtopia Virtuoso Suicide-Master, while Hirakawa is voicing Tropicalesque Home-awave Dogstrings.
Monogatari Series: Off & Monster Season adapts the Orokamonogatari and Nademonogatari arcs, along with Shinobumonogatari. The Wazamonogatari serves as a follow-up to the past extra Episode 6.5, “A Cruel Fairy Tale: The Beautiful Princess.”
Akiyuki Shinbo is credited as the chief director, with Midori Yoshizawa (Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story Season 2 assistant director) as director, Akio Watanabe (returning) as character designer, Fuyashi To (returning) and Shinbo as series screenwriter, Hisaharu Iijima (returning) as art director, Yasuko Watanabe (Zoku Owarimonogatari) as color designer, Hiyori Hashimoto (Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story, RWBY Ice Queendom assistant compositing director) and Mizuho Ishikawa (Zom 100 compositing staff) as compositing directors. Shaft is handling the animation production.
Meanwhile, the anime’s main voice cast includes:
- • Hiroshi Kamiya as Koyomi Araragi
- • Emiri Kato as Mayoi Hachikuji
- • Yui Horie as Tsubasa Hanekawa
- • Kana Hanazawa as Nadeko Sengoku
- • Saori Hayami as Yotsugi Ononoki
- • Yuka Iguchi as Tsukihi Araragi
- • Chiwa Saito as Hitagi Senjougahara
- • Kaori Mizuhashi as Ougi Oshino
- • Maaya Sakamoto as Shinobu Oshino
- • Marina Inoue as Sodachi Oikura
- • Miyuki Sawashiro as Suruga Kanbaru
The anime is based on the light novels written by Nisio Isin and illustrated by Vofan. The Off-Season books include several entries such as Orokamonogatari, Wazamonogatari, Nademonogatari, and Musubimonogatari, which were released from 2015 to 2017.
Meanwhile, the Monster Season titles include Shinobumonogatari, Yoimonogatari, Amarimonogatari, Ougimonogatari, and Shimonogatari Parts 1 and 2, which were published between 2017 and 2021. The Monogatari book series began with the release of Bakemonogatari Part 1 and 2 in 2006.
Monogatari Off & Monster Season is the latest entry in the Monogatari Series since 2019’s Zoku Owarimonogatari, excluding the Kizumonogatari: Koyomi Vamp compilation film. Crunchyroll is streaming the new series worldwide, outside of Japan, and is also streaming the previous seasons.
The anime began with Bakemonogatari in 2009, which was directed by Tatsuya Oishi, who also directed 2016 to 2017’s Kizumonogatari movie trilogy. The other previous Monogatari anime were directed by Tomoyuki Itamura (Call of the Night, The Case Study of Vanitas).
Kodansha USA releases the novel series in English, which describes the first part of Bakemonogatari as:
There’s a girl at their school who is always ill. She routinely arrives late, leaves early, or doesn’t show up at all, and skips gym as a matter of course. She’s pretty, and the boys take to whispering that’s a cloistered princess. As the self-described worst loser in her class soon finds out, they just don’t know what a monster she is.
So begins a tale of mysterious maladies that are supernatural in origin yet deeply revealing of the human psyche, a set of case files as given to unexpected feeling as it is to irreverent humor.
Source: Nisio Isin Anime Official Twitter
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