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Netflix Debuts New Akuma Kun Anime Series in India on November 9

The anime will premiere on November 9.

Netflix describes the story:

Akuma Kun is the story of a boy trying create a society where humanity realizes it's true potential and lives happily, with the help of some unlikely allies

The new anime's story is set over three decades after the earlier 1989-1990 anime's story. Yūko Mita and Toshio Furukawa are returning from the previous anime to voice Akuma I / Shingo Umoregi and Mephisto II, respectively. Furukawa also plays Mephisto III. Yūki Kaji voices the protagonist, Akuma II / Ichirō Umoregi.

The cast includes:

• Ryoko Shiraishi as Sanae Kazama
• Yumiri Hanamori as Mio Kazama
• Fairouz Ai as Gremory
• Yukiyo Fujii as Hina Asanagi
• Hiro Shimono as Strofire
• Michiyo Yanagisawa as Etsuko Umoregi, Mephisto III's mother
• Yūsaku Yara as Satan

Junichi Satō (Aria franchise, Sailor Moon) is the Akuma Kun anime project's chief director at Encourage Films, while Fumitoshi Oizaki (A Centaur's Life, Romeo × Juliet) is the series director. Sato previously directed the Akuma-kun TV anime and its two films in 1989-1990. Hiroshi Ohnogi (2018 GeGeGe no Kitarō, Noein - to your other self) is overseeing the series scripts. Toei Animation is charge of production.

Additional staff members include:

• Character Design, Chief Animation Director: Sakae Shibuya (A Centaur's Life, Magical Girl Site)
• Art Director: Yumiko Kuga
• Color Key Artist: Kunio Tsujita
• Compositing Director of Photography: Takeo Ogiwara
• Magic Circle Design: Wataru Osakabe
• Music: Akio Izutsu (Phi-Brain - Kami no Puzzle)

The anime is part of four "big projects" commemorating the 100-year anniversary of Shigeru Mizuki's birth. Mizuki passed away in 2015 at 93 years old. Another project is the Kitarō Tanjō: Gegege no Nazo (Kintarō Birth: The Mystery of Gegege) anime film, which will open on November 17.

The manga previously inspired a television anime in 1989-1990. Two anime films premiered in 1989 and 1990. The new anime is the first new one in 33 years. The manga also inspired several live-action adaptations.

Mizuki drew the original manga in 1963-1964, and he drew several other series in the franchise in the 1970s and 1980s. The manga follows the titular "Akuma-kun," a boy who uses the powers of demons to help the world stay at peace.

Source: Netflix