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Double Decker Anime Reveals More Cast, Fall Debut
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
The official website for Double Decker! Doug & Kirill, an anime series that is "one part" of the "new Tiger & Bunny animation project," revealed four more cast members on Thursday. The site also revealed that the show will premiere this fall.
The new cast includes: (character name spellings aren't official)
Saori Hayami as Dina del Rio
Chika Anzai as Katherine "K" Roshfall
Yō Taichi as Maxine "Max" Silverstone
Atsumi Tanezaki as Yuri Fujishiro
Dina and K are partners and Max and Yuri are partners.
The anime will star:
Satoshi Mikami as Douglas "Doug" Bilingam
Kōhei Amasaki as Kirill Vrubel
The series will follow a two-man detective team: one who is a veteran and one who is a rookie.
Jōji Furuta (Utano☆Princesama Legend Star, The Seven Deadly Sins: Revival of The Commandments director, episode director and storyboarder on original Tiger & Bunny series) is directing the series at Sunrise. Ryo Ando (Interviews with Monster Girls) is in charge of series production, and Tomohiro Suzuki (Tiger & Bunny, One-Punch Man, ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Dept.) is returning to oversee the series scripts. Manga creator Masakazu Katsura (Zetman) is returning to design the main characters, and Norihiro Itagaki is returning from the Tiger & Bunny The Movie -The Rising- and Tiger & Bunny the Movie: The Beginning films to handle the animation character design. Yuki Hayashi (My Hero Academia, Haikyu!!, Death Parade) is composing the music.
Keiichi Satō, the director of the original Tiger & Bunny television anime, confirmed in January that he is not involved in the project. Yoshitomo Yonetani, director of the Tiger & Bunny anime films, also confirmed in January that he is not involved.
The original television anime series centers around heroes for hire — super powered beings known as NEXT who wear sponsor logos while fighting crime on live television. The 2011 anime series spawned two anime movies: Tiger & Bunny the Movie: The Beginning in 2012 and Tiger & Bunny The Movie -The Rising- in 2014. Viz Media released the television series, the films, and the tie-in manga in North America.
Sources: Double Decker official website, Comic Natalie
