The second PV introduces the main cast and the opening theme song Sumire (Violet) by Maaya Sakamoto.
By: Nicole S. Castro on March 31, 2022 at 16:27 PHT
The upcoming Japanese sweets (wagashi) TV anime Deaimon has revealed its second promotional video (PV) which will air on April 6, 2022.
The series is animated by Encourage Films and is directed by Fumitoshi Oizaki.
Deaimon (であいもん) is a Japanese manga series by Rin Asano. It has been serialized in Kadokawa Shoten's seinen manga magazine Young Ace since May 2016.
The story is set in a wagashi (Japanese sweets) store in Kyoto with Nagomu Irino (CV: Nobunaga Shimazaki) as the protagonist. He is the son of a store owner but chose to flee home to pursue his dream of becoming a musician. However, upon learning of his father's hospitalization, he returns home to take over the business, only to find a young girl named Itsuka Yukihira (CV: Kozue Yuki) already working there.
The second PV introduces the main cast, such as Nagomu's family, his girlfriend Kanoko Matsukaze (CV: Minami Takahashi), and Itsuka's father Tomoe Yukihira (CV: Yoshitsugu Matsuoka). The featured song is opening theme Sumire (Violet) by Maaya Sakamoto.
Main Cast
Heigo Irino (CV: Rikiya Koyama)
Fuki Irino (CV: Sayaka Ohara)
Saki Seto (CV: Takuma Nagatsuka)
Mitsuru Horikawa (CV: Minori Suzuki)
Kanoko Matsukaze (CV: Minami Takahashi)
Tomoe Yukihira (CV: Yoshitsugu Matsuoka)
Additional Supporting Cast
Masa Tatsumi (CV: Hiroshi Iwasaki)
Crane/Otsuru-san (CV: Satsuki Yukino)
Hiiro Kisaichi (CV: Saori Hayami)
Ikkō Irino (CV: Izo Oikawa)
Masayo Irino (Cv: Miho Yoshida)
Staff
Original work: Rin Asano (serialized in "Young Ace", published by Kadokawa)
Director: Fumitoshi Oizaki
Series composition: Reiko Yoshida
Character design and chief animation director: Sakai Shibuya
Props design/Japanese sweets drawing: Fumiaki Sato
2D/Costume design: Yuki Houda
Art Director: Yumiko Sora (Studio Jack)
CG Director: Yukie Yamamoto (Inaho)
Cinematographer: Nogo Matsumoto (Inaho)
Editing: Akari Saito (Mishima Hensyu)
Music: Ren Takada
Sound Director: Hiroto Morishita
Animation production: Encourage Films
Production: Midorimatsu
Source: Deaimon official Twitter, official website, Comic Natalie
NICOLE S. CASTRO
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Nicole is based in the Philippines and works as a freelance Japanese Translator/Interpreter and copywriter (English). She is a JLPT N2 passer who watches anime to "study" for N1. She has a long career history on LinkedIn (with primary focus on media and translation), but her anime watchlist is much, much longer.
