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Crunchyroll Streams Mysterious Disappearances Anime
posted on by Alex Mateo
Crunchyroll announced on Wednesday that it is streaming the television anime of Nujima's Mysterious Disappearances (Kaii to Otome to Kamikakushi) manga for the spring 2024 anime season. The series streams worldwide except for Japan and China on Wednesdays at 10:00 a.m. EDT.
The series premiered on Wednesday. The anime held a special online advance screening event in Japan on March 10.
The anime stars:
- Fairouz Ai as Sumireko Ogawa
- Daiki Yamashita as Ren Adashino
- Eri Yukimura as Oto Adashino
- Yui Horie as Manami Uname
- Rie Takahashi as Shizuku
- Saya Aizawa as Nodoka Ametsuchi
- Yūya Uchida as Jikū no Ossan
The modern-day bizarre Romanesque story follows Sumireko Ogawa, an aspiring novelist who loves mysteries and works at a bookstore with a boy named Ren Adashino. They witness strange occurrences and attempt to solve mysteries.
Tomomi Mochizuki (Battery the Animation, House of Five Leaves, Twin Spica) is directing the anime at Zero-G, and is also in charge of the series scripts. Takuya Tani (Muv-Luv Alternative, Kōkaku no Pandora) is designing the characters.
Yuyu performs the opening song "Hazard Symbol," and Nonoka Ōbuchi performs the ending theme song "Shuku Somete Shinzō" (Scarlet-Dyed Heart).
Nujima launched the manga in Shogakukan's Yawaraka Spirits web manga site in October 2019. Shogakukan published the manga's seventh compiled book volume on March 29.
Source: Crunchyroll (Kyle Cardine)
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