It’s time to meet the monster girls! No… we didn’t already meet them in 2015.
Yesterday, the official Interviews with Monster Girls (Demi-chan wa Kataritai) anime website updated with a new promotional video. The feature, which introduces the main characters, features the first actual voice acted performance for the major cast members.
As of press time, the female cast members remain unnamed. The show’s staff is hosting a contest on Twitter, in which fans can try to guess the actors.
Interviews with Monster Girls will hit Japanese TV in January. Tokyo MX, MBS, and BS11 are confirmed to be carrying the series.
The show is based on Petosu’s manga of the same name. Ryo Ando will direct the project at A-1 Pictures, with Tetsuya Kawakami (The Asterisk War, Nanana’s Buried Treasure) providing character designs. Takao Yoshioka (Elfen Lied, High School DxD) is in charge of series composition. Other crew members include:
- Screenplay: Takao Yoshioka
- Art Director: Katsufumi Hariu
- Color Design: Misako Akama
- Director of Photography: Yohei Miyawaki
- CG Director: Shinji Nasu
- Editing: Shigeru Nishiyama
- Sound Director: Jin Aketagawa
- Music: Masaru Yokoyama
- Production: Interviews with Monster Girls Production Committee
Kodansha comics currently holds the domestic rights to the Interviews with Monster Girls manga, which will begin publication on November 1. They describe the series as:
Monsters of legend walk among us, going by the name “demi-humans.” Ever since he’s discovered the “demis,” one young man has become obsessed with them. So when he gets a job as a teacher at a high school for demi-girls, it’s a dream come true! But these demis, who include a rambunctious vampire, a bashful headless girl, and a succubus, have all the problems normal teenagers have, on top of their supernatural conditions. How to handle a classroom full of them?!
Character designs for the major cast members were unveiled in September. You can check these out below:
Sources: Twitter (pKjd)