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Drifting Dragons TV Anime Reveals Teaser Video, 18 Cast Members

The official website for the television anime of Taku Kuwabara's Drifting Dragons (Kūtei Dragons) manga revealed the second teaser video, a key visual, 18 cast members, and ending theme song for the adaptation on Wednesday. The video previews the anime's ending theme song "Zettai Reido" (Absolute Zero," performed by four-member female rock band Red Park (Akai Kōen).

The main cast includes:
(Note: character name romanizations are not confirmed.)

Sora Amamiya as Takita

Tomoaki Maeno as Mika

Sōma Saitō as Giraud

Kana Hanazawa as Vanabelle

The cast also includes:

• Junichi Suwabe as Gibbs
• Tomokazu Seki as Crocco
• Takahiro Sakurai as Niko
• Kōsuke Toriumi as Berko
• Rie Kugimiya as Capella
• Kentarō Kumagai as Gaga
• Makoto Furukawa as Faye
• Takashi Matsuyama as Badakin
• Shunsuke Takeuchi as Oken
• Yūto Uemura as Soraya
• Chinatsu Akasaki as Mayne
• Junya Enoki as Hiro
• Kazuhiko Inoue as Yoshi
• Hiroo Sasaki as Lee

The anime will premiere in January 2020 on Fuji TV's [+Ultra] programming block. The show will stream exclusively on Netflix.

Tadahiro Yoshihira is directing the anime at Polygon Pictures, and Makoto Uezu is both writing and overseeing the series scripts. Yoshikazu Iwanami is the sound director.

Kodansha Comics began releasing the series digitally in December 2017, and released the third volume digitally in March 2018. The company describes the series:

The draking vessel Quin Zaza soars through the skies, hunting dragons that hide in the clouds. A single big catch means full coffers and all the meat they can eat, while failure means an empty wallet and an even emptier stomach. Join us as we log the crew's grand adventures, chasing dreams of the sky, dragons, and gourmet cooking!

Kodansha Comics announced on Wednesday that it will begin releasing the manga in print this holiday season.

Kuwabara launched the manga in Kodansha's Good! Afternoon magazine in June 2016, and Kodansha published the manga's sixth compiled volume will ship on May 7.

A serialized novel in the franchise debuted in the Da Vinci magazine on May 6. The novel focuses on Vanabelle and other original female characters. Kuwabara is drawing illustrations for the novel.

Update: Furukawa's first name corrected. Thanks, KutovoiAnton.

Sources: Drifiting Dragons anime's website, Comic Natalie