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High School DxD Hero Anime Casts Sora Tokui, Kousuke Toriumi
posted on by Jennifer Sherman
The staff of High School DxD Hero, the fourth season of the High School DxD television anime series, revealed two more cast members on Tuesday. Sora Tokui will play Kunō, and Kousuke Toriumi will play Sōsō. Media Factory also began streaming a new television commercial for the anime.
Sora Tokui as Kunō
Kousuke Toriumi as Sōsō
The anime will premiere on the AT-X channel on Tuesday, April 10 at 11:00 p.m., and then it will run on the Tokyo MX, Sun TV, KBS Kyoto, TV Aichi, and BS11 channels. It will also stream on the AbemaTV service from Tuesday, April 10 at 24:00 (effectively midnight the next day), followed by other streaming services.
Tokyo's Shinjuku Piccadilly theater will host a "Premium Party" advance screening of the first episode, along with a talk show with cast members Yuuki Kaji, Yōko Hikasa, Azumi Asakura, and Shizuka Itou, on March 30 at 8:00 p.m.
The series features a returning cast:
Yōko Hikasa as Rias Gremory
Azumi Asakura as Asia Argento
Shizuka Itou as Akeno Himejima
Ayana Taketatsu as Koneko Tōjō
Kenji Nojima as Yūto Kiba
Risa Taneda as Xenovia
Maaya Uchida as Irina Shidō
Ayane Sakura as Gasper Vlady
Ai Kakuma as Rossweisse
Yoshifumi Sueda (Rail Wars!, episode director for Gosick, MAOYU, So I Can't Play H) is directing the series at Passione (Haitai Nanafa, Hinako Note, Rail Wars!). Kenji Konuta (Blood Lad, Servamp, Library War) is handling the series composition, and Makoto Uno (The Qwaser of Stigmata, Rail Wars!, Love Hina) is the character designer.
Minami is performing the opening theme song "Switch," and Tapimiru is performing the ending theme song "Motenai Kuseni (';ω;´)" (Even Though I'm Not Popular).
Author Ichiei Ishibumi and illustrator Miyama-Zero's High School DxD light novel series previously inspired three television anime series. Tetsuya Yanagisawa had directed all three series at TNK.
The light novel series centers on Issei Hyōdō, a dim-witted, lecherous second-year high school student who is killed by a girl on his first date ever. Issei is reincarnated as a devil, and from that day forward, he serves as an underling of Rias, a high-level devil who is also the prettiest girl on Issei's campus.
Ishibumi and Miyama-Zero launched the series in 2008, and Kadokawa released the 25th volume on March 20.
The first anime adaptation premiered in Japan in 2012, and the second series, High School DxD New, premiered in July 2013. The third series, High School DxD BorN, premiered in April 2015. Funimation Entertainment released all three series on home video in North America.
[Via Ota-Suke]
