A new PV trailer has been released for the upcoming Tohai – Ura Rate Mahjong Tohai Roku TV anime series, which previews the main theme song artists. The anime is scheduled to premiere in October 2024.
The English-subbed trailer features the main characters Kei, Amina, and Doujima, as well as recently revealed characters, Takatsu Noriyuki, the leader of the Takatsu-gumi, and Kei’s childhood friend, Yuu Katsuragi.
Singer-songwriter Masayoshi Oishi will be performing the main opening theme song, while idol group Taiyo to Odore, Tsukiyo ni Utae will perform the main ending theme.
Jun Hatori (Too Cute Crisis) is directing the anime series, with Mariko Kunisawa (Berserk of Gluttony) as series screenwriter, Sayaka Anesaki as character designer, and Yusuke Shirato and Yuki Kishida as music composers. EAST FISH STUDIO is handling the animation production for the series.
Meanwhile, the anime’s main voice cast includes:
- • Kohsuke Tanabe as Kei
- • Ai Fairouz as Amina
- • Shunsuke Takeuchi as Doujima
- • Chinatsu Akasaki as Yuu Katsuragi
- • Tsuyoshi Koyama as Noriyuki Takatsu
Koji Shinasaka‘s original mahjong suspense manga ran in Akita Shoten’s Young Champion magazine from June 27, 2006 to April 12, 2011. A total of 12 tankobon volumes were released in total.
The manga was later followed up with Tohai: Hitobashira-hen, Tohai: Minagoroshi-hen, and the ongoing Tohai: Cold Girl, which started in the same magazine on September 28, 2021 and features Amina as the main protagonist. Seven tankobon volumes of Cold Girl have been released as of June 2024.
The series has also inspired several spin-off works and a 2013 live-action film adaptation.
Pony Canyon describes the synopsis of Tohai as:
Money, women, organs. Kei, a high school boy, frequents the underground mahjong parlor teeming with desires, earning him the moniker “K of the ICE” in the underworld due to his cold-hearted strategy and stylish gameplay. Rumors also circulate that he keeps a girl at his home.
Source: Pony Canyon Anime Official Twitter, press release
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