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Nine Cast Members Unveiled for “Dances with the Dragons” Anime


It looks like reinforcements are arriving for this series.

Earlier today, the official Saredo Tsumibito wa Ryū to Odoru: Dances with the Dragons anime website updated with nine new cast members. The series will add the following:

  • Genon: Go Inoue
  • Herodel: Atsushi Imaruoka
  • Arzel: Aya Suzaki
  • Largonquin: Rintarou Nishi
  • Javeira: Rica Matsumoto
  • Īgī: Hiro Shimono
  • Yākutō: Motomu Kiyokawa
  • Remedius: Tomokazu Sugita
  • Zuo rū: Akira Ishida

Saredo Tsumibito wa Ryū to Odoru: Dances with the Dragons will première in April. The show will launch on TBS on April 5, at 25:58 (4/6/2018 at 1:58AM). BS-TBS will carry the show two days later, on April 7 at 25:30 (4/8/2018 at 1:30AM).

Hiroshi Nishikiori (Azumanga Daioh, A Certain Magical Index) will serve as chief director for the project, with Hiroka Hanai taking the director’s chair at Seven Arcs Pictures. Masaru Kitao (Death NotePops) will produce character designs, while Takayo Ikami (Beautiful Bones: Sakurako’s Investigation, Penguindrum) tackles series composition.

Maon Kurosaki will perform ending theme décadence, while fripside handles opening theme song divine criminal.

The confirmed cast includes:

  • Gaius Levina Sorel: Nobunaga Shimazaki
  • Gigina Jardi Doruk Meleios Ashley-Bufh: Yoshimasa Hosoya
  • Jivunya Lorezzo: Yōko Hikasa
  • Nidvolk: Yuko Kaida
  • Mordin Orjes Gyunei: Takaya Hashi
  • Mutsumi Tamura: Yorkan
  • Curaso Opt Koga: Yoshino Nanjō
  • Jesper Livy Raki: Takanori Hoshino
  • Berdrit Livy Raki: Sora Tokui

Labo Asai’s Saredo Tsumibito wa Ryū to Odoru: Dances with the Dragons light novels began publication in 2003 under Kadokawa’s Kadokawa Sneaker Bunko imprint, albeit without the “Dances With Dragons” subtitle. The series switched to Shogakukan’s Gagaga Bunko in 2008, and gained its new subtitle along with a total rewrite. Artist Miyagi illustrated all volumes under Kadokawa Sneaker Bunko, as well as th first thirteen installments under Gagaga Bunko. Volume 14 saw a switch to current illustrator Zain. To date, twenty volumes have been released by Gagaga Bunko, with the most recent hitting stores on September 20, 2017. The twenty-first volume will ship to stores on March 20.

A manga adaptation by Yaku Haibara launched in Kadokawa’s Beans Ace, which was published as a single volume in 2006.

Source: Comic Natalie

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