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Devils' Line Anime Casts Hiro Shimono, Shōta Akimura, Daisuke Hirakawa

The official website for the anime of Ryo Hanada's Devils' Line manga revealed three more cast members on Friday. Hiro Shimono will play Tsukasa's college friend Shōta Akimura, Satoshi Hino will play the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Public Security Bureau doctor Ryūsei Yanagi, and Daisuke Hirakawa will play the Cross bar waiter Ryūnosuke Katagiri.

The anime will premiere on AT-X on April 7 at 23:30, and it will also air on Tokyo MX, BS11, Sun TV, and KBS Kyoto.

The previously announced cast members include:

• Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Yūki Anzai
• Yui Ishikawa as Tsukasa Taira
• Kazuyuki Okitsu as Yōsuke Asami
• Ryota Ohsaka as Naoya Ushio
• Akira Ishida as Megumi Ishimaru
• Mayumi Asano as Midori Anzai
• Mamoru Miyano as Tamaki Anzai
• Ryōhei Kimura as Hans Lee
• Yoshimasa Hosoya as Takashi Sawazaki
• Miyuki Sawashiro as Juliana Lloyd
• Takahiro Sakurai as Kirio Kikuhara
• Hiroshi Kamiya as Takeshi Makimura
• Nao Tōyama as Nanako Tenjō
• Shōta Aoi as Kenichi Yoshii

Yoshinobu Tokumoto (Nagasarete Airantou, Amanchu! unit director) is directing the anime at Platinum Vision, with Hideaki Nakano (Aoharu x Machinegun, Servamp) as assistant director. Kenji Konuta (Aoharu x Machinegun, Servamp), Ayumu Hisao (Gekijōban Servamp: Alice in the Garden) are credited for series composition and scripts. Senri Kawaguchi is drawing the character designs, and is also credited for chief animation director alongside Toshimitsu Kobayashi. Yasuhiro Saiki is the action animation director.

Other staff members include:

Prop Design: Tomokazu Sugimura
Art Director: Masaki Mayuzumi
Color Setting: Aiko Yamagami
Director of Photography: Shigeki Asakawa
Editing: Kashiko Kimura
Sound Director: Tōru Nakano
Sound Effects: Eiko Morikawa, Yuuki Hayashi
Sound Production: Pony Canyon Enterprises
Music: Kana Shibue
Music Production: King Records

Vertical Comics is publishing the manga in print in English, and Kodansha Advanced Media is releasing the manga digitally in North America. Vertical describes the series' story:

Tsukasa, a college student, is rescued from an attack by a devil, one of many vampires that can blend in among the human population. Anzai, her savior, is a half-devil who exploits his supernatural gifts as a member of a shadowy police task force that specializes in devil-related crime in Tokyo. As Anzai continues to keep guard over Tsukasa, the two quickly forge a tentative bond—one that Anzai fears will test his iron-clad rule of never drinking human blood...

Hanada launched the dark fantasy manga in Kodansha's Monthly Morning two magazine in 2013, and Kodansha published the 10th compiled book volume on July 21. The 11th volume, which will ship on March 23, will bundle a drama CD with the anime's cast featuring a story from the day before the first episode of the anime. Vertical published the tenth volume on March 6.

Source: MoCa News