The Undead Girl Murder Farce anime is set to premiere this July 5. A new trailer and visual have been released as part of the announcement. Studio Lapintrack is animating the series under the direction of Mamoru Hatakeyama.
Noboru Takagi is doing the series composition, while Noriko Ito and Naho Kozono serve as chief animation directors. Ito and Kozono are also character designers and sub-character designers respectively. Yuma Yamaguchi is doing the music. The cast for the anime includes:
- Makoto Koichi as Shizuku Hasei
- Taku Yashiro as Tsugaru Shinuchi
- Tomoyo Kurosawa as Aya Rindo
- Hiro Shimono as The Phantom
- Itaru Yamamoto as Victor
- Maaya Uchida as Nora
- Mamoru Miyano as Arsene Lupin
- Masaki Aizawa as John H. Watson
- Reina Kondo as Carmilla
- Saima Nakano as Kaya
- Sayumi Suzushiro as Annie Kerber
- Shinichiro Miki as Sherlock Holmes
- Soma Saitō as Jack the Ripper
- Tomokazu Sugita as Aleister Crowley
- Wataru Yokojima as James Moriarty
- Yumiri Hanamori as Vera
The anime is based on a currently ongoing novel series by Yugo Aosaku. Air Gear and Tenjo Tenge author (also known as Bakemonogatari artist), Oh! great did the cover illustrations. A manga adaptation by Haruka Tomoyama is also ongoing. Kodansha is publishing the manga in English and there are currently three volumes out: the last one came out in 2021.
Crunchyroll will be streaming the anime as part of their Fuji TV +Ultra partnership. The streaming platform describes the plot as:
The 19th century — a world inhabited by vampires, golems, werewolves and other paranormal creatures. Immortal beauty and disembodied head Aya Rindo, along with half-human-half-demon “Demon Killer” Tsugaru Shunichi and her loyal maid Shizuku Hasei, travels through Europe as supernatural detective “The Cage User,” solving supernatural mysteries while she searches for her lost body.
Source: Official Website
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