The official website of the television anime adaptation of Masahito Soda and Kuro Tomiyama’s Megumi no Daigo: Kyuukoku no Orange manga revealed on Wednesday the main cast and additional staff. The anime is set to broadcast in Fall 2023 on Yomiuri TV and Nippon TV-affiliated channels.

Cast

Daigo Toake: Junya Enoki (Jujutsu Kaisen)

Shun Onoda: Taku Yashiro (Fumetsu no Anata e)

Yuki Nakamura: Ayane Sakura (Shingeki no Kyojin: The Final Season)

Staff

Character Design: Hitomi Tsuruta (World Trigger), Kouji Yabuno (Fumetsu no Anata e)

Series Composition: Shinzou Fujita (Fumetsu no Anata e, Change!! Getter Robo: Sekai Saigo no Hi)

Masahiko Murata (Fumetsu no Anata e) is directing the anime at animation studio Brain’s Base.

Soda serialized the original action drama manga series in 20 volumes on the Shounen Sunday magazine from August 1995 to June 1999.

The sequel manga, Megumi no Daigo: Kyuukoku no Orange, began serialization on the Monthly Shounen Magazine in October 2020. Kodansha shipped the sixth volume in December 2022.

In 1996, Megumi no Daigo won the Shogakukan Manga Award in the shounen category, and in 1998, it won the Excellence Award in the manga category of the 2nd Japan Media Arts Festival. Both manga has a total cumulative 14 million copies of its volumes in circulation.

Source: Comic Natalie