The official website for the World Dai Star “theatrical girls” multimedia project debuted a new promotional video and key visual for the project’s television anime on Sunday. The video announces more of the anime’s main staff members and April 9 premiere. The website also posted the first promotional video for the project’s game and the official World Dai Star: Encore! title for the project’s manga..
The newly announced staff members include:
- Sub-Character Design: Yopi
- Chief Animation Directors: NoneKōji Yamagata
- Dramatization Script, Dramatization Supervision: Miss Ezaki
- Action Animation Supervision: Ryōko Amisaki
- Art Setting: Risa Iraha
- Art Direction: Hiroko Tanabe
- Color Key Artist: Saki Tada
- Compositing Director of Photography: Sena Nakagawa
- Editing: Yumika Okazaki
- Sound Director: Satoki Iida
- Music: Ryo Takahashi, Kenichi Kuroda, Tatsuya Yano
- Music Production: Lantis
- Produce: EGG FIRM
As previously announced, manga creator Takahiro drafted the story, and VTuber designer Mika Pikazo drafted the character designs. Yu Kinome (Pride idols) is directing the anime at Lercheand Yasuhiro Nakanishi (Kaguya-sama: Love is War, A Couple of Cuckoos, Pride idols episodes) is in charge of the series scripts. None (22/7, Macross Delta, Kabukibu!) designed the characters for animation.
The anime will premiere on the Tokyo MX channel on April 9 at 11:00 p.m. (10:00 a.m. EDT), and it will also run on BS11, TV Aichi, Hokkaido TV, MBSand Shizuoka Broadcasting System.
The project’s World Dai Star: Yume no Stellarium (World Dai Star: Dream Stellarium) game will launch this summer.
Nanafuji will launch the World Dai Star: Encore! manga in Kadokawa‘s Comic Alive+ manga website on April 2.
The story is set in a world after Dai Star stage performers exploded in worldwide popularity in the 20th century. 16-year-old Kokona Ōtori follows her dream of becoming a World Dai Star by auditioning for the Sirius theatrical troupe.
The cast members include::
- Sirius troupe
- Manaka Iwami as Kokona Otori
- Ikumi Hasegawa as Shizuka
- Sally Amaki as Kathrina Griebel
- Maria Naganawa as Yae Niizuma
- Naomi Ozora as Panda Snatched
- Rico Sasaki as Chisa Sasuga
- Nanako Mori as Noa Hiiragi
- Gingaza troop
- Minami Tanaka as Ramona Wolf
- Gekidan Denki troupe
- Reina Kondo as Mito Shiromaru
- Eden troupe
- Shuka Saitō as Nikako Toneri
The project’s game World Dai Star: Yume no Stellarium (World Dai Star: Dream Stellarium) will launch this summer.
The game includes three more cast members:
Mariko Toribe as Koyomi Senju (Gingaza troupe)
His Highness as Hatsumi Renjakuno (Eden Troupe)
Previously, Takahiro and arrow launched the Hinowa ga CRUSH! (HINOWA ga YUKU!) manga in Square Enix‘s Monthly Big Gangan magazine in June 2017, and ended the series in June 2022.
Takahiro and Tetsuya Tashiro ended their Akame ga KILL! manga in December 2017. The 15-volume manga launched in 2010 in Square Enix‘s Monthly Gangan Joker magazine. The prequel manga, Akame ga KILL! ZERO, launched in 2013 and ended with its 10th volume.
Takahiro and Yohei Takemura launched the Chained Soldier (Mato Seihei no Slave) manga on Shueisha‘s Shonen Jump+ manga website in January 2019. Shueisha published the manga’s 12th volume on January 4. The manga is inspiring a television anime.
Pikazo is best known for designing the Virtual YouTubers Kaguya Luna and Hakos Baelz, as well as Fate/Grand Order’s Sei Shounagon. Pikazo also designed the protagonists in Nintendo‘s Fire Emblem Engage game.
Sources: World Dai Star‘s website, Comic Natalie
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