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HIDIVE Adds Devil’s Line, 3 More to Spring 2018 Simulcasts, Plans Devil’s Line DubCast


It looks like this line is tracking its way up to HIDIVE.

This week, HIDIVE unveiled four titles that will join their Spring 2018 Simulcast lineup. The company will stream the following:

  • Devils’ Line (4/7/2018 at 16:00 UTC)
  • Real Girl (4/3/2018 at 19:59 UTC)
  • Tada Never Falls In Love (4/5/2018 at 13:30 UTC)
  • Cutie Honey Universe (4/8/2018 at 13:30 UTC)

In addition, HIDIVE is planning a DubCast for Devil’s Line, which will hit within two weeks of the show’s premiere. All four titles are licensed by Sentai Filmworks

Devils’ Line

Devils’ Line will be available to users in North America, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Latin America, Scandinavia, South Africa, Spain, Portugal, and the Netherlands.

Yoshinobu Tokumoto (Comic Girls) was tapped to direct Devils’ Line at Platinum Vision, with Senri Kawaguchi providing character designs. Kenji Konuta (SerVamp, Blood Lad) and Ayumu Hisao are in charge of series composition for the project.

Sentai describes the title as:

Set in a shadowy, often violent world where vampires repress their bloodlust to survive alongside humanity, a chance encounter and unlikely entanglement risk exposing the darkness that lies in every heart.

Cutie Honey Universe

Cutie Honey Universe will be available to users in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, UK, Ireland, South Africa, the Netherlands, Scandinavia, Nordic, Spain, Portugal, Central America, and South America.

Akitoshi Yokoyama was tapped to direct Cutie Honey Universe at Production Reed, with Syūichi Iseki filling the dual role of character designer and chief animation director. Natsuko Takahashi (Love Tyrant, Urahara) is in charge of series composition.

Sentai describes the show as:

Based on the groundbreaking franchise that launched the “magical girl” genre and produced as part of the 50th anniversary commemorating the work of anime and manga wunderkind Go Nagai (Devilman Crybaby), Cutie Honey Universe follows Honey Kisaragi, an amazingly humanlike and fashion conscious android with the unique ability to transform her body into a wide range of outrageous yet stylish disguises, each of which comes with its own dazzling super ability. After a run-in with a sinister secret criminal cabal organization, Panther Claw, the luscious and law-abiding Honey makes it her mission to bring them down.

Tada Never Falls In Love

Tada Never Falls In Love will be available to users in North America, Australia, New Zealand, UK, Ireland, South Africa, the Netherlands, Scandinavia, Spain, Portugal, and Latin America.

Mitsue Yamazaki (Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-kun, Hakkenden: Eight Dogs of the East) was tapped to direct the project at Doga Kobo, with Junichiro Taniguchi (Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-kun, ) providing character designs. Yoshiko Nakamura (Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-kun, Super Lovers) is in charge of series compsition.

Sentai describes the show as:

One serendipitous day, Tada is taking pictures of cherry blossoms and unexpectedly meets Teresa, a transfer student from Luxembourg. Tada helps Teresa as she gets separated from her group and takes her to his grandfather’s coffee shop. As Tada and Teresa’s friendship begins to blossom, Tada starts to question his feelings.

Real Girl

Real Girl will be available to users in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, UK, Ireland, South Africa, Netherlands, Scandinavia, Nordics, Spain, Portugal, Central America, South America.

Takashi Naoya (Luck & Logic, Touken Ranbu: Hanamaru) was tapped to direct the project at Hoods Entertainment, with Satomi Kurita (Hina Logic – from Luck & Logic) providing character designs. Deko Akao (Noragami, Flying Witch) is in charge of series composition for the project.

Sentai describes the show as:

The character-driven story follows the reclusive Hikari Tsutsui as he accidentally falls in love with the popular Iroha Igarashi, despite his aversion to real-world girls. The couple begins to develop a close bond neither expected which challenges their preconceived notions of who people truly are.

Source: HIDIVE (Press Release) [1] [2] [3] [4]

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