Honō no Tōkyūjo: Dodge Danko Dodgeball Anime Announces 18 Cast Members
The staff for the television anime adaptation of Tetsuhiro Koshita's Honō no Tōkyūjo: Dodge Danko manga revealed on Sunday the anime's main visual and additional cast members. The cast members for each team are:
St. Arrows:
- Yūki Wakai as Peiko Nikaidō (center)
- Yuka Iguchi as Jyuri Igarashi (left from center)
- Azusa Tachibana as Moa Kusunoki (right from center)
- Rena Hasegawa as Akari Higashiyama (second left)
- Saya Hitomi as Sayo Sakakibara (second right)
- Ayasa Itō as Rin Kobayakawa (leftmost)
- Momoka Terasawa as Urara Mitamura (rightmost)
Tosa Attackers:
- Satomi Akesaka as Ruka Sakamoto (center)
- Serika Hiromatsu as Miho Harima (left from center)
- Kanae Oki as Marina (right from center)
- Miyu Hanasaki as Momoka (second from left)
- Nichika Ōmori as Riko (second from right)
- Madoka Asahina as Nanami Katsuragi (leftmost)
- Rarisa Tago Takeda as Natsumi Shisoma (rightmost)
US Buffaloes:
- Fairouz Ai as Zoe (left)
- Nozomi Mikajiri as Elda
Black Armors:
- Mariya Ise as Ran Midou (center)
- Marina Inoue as Satsuki Takayama (left from center)
- Yurie Kozakai as Kira Ogata (right from center)
- Shiori Izawa as Runa Usami (second left)
- Rika Hayashi as Hinata Fuwa (second right)
- Minori Fujidera as Iroha Yūki (leftmost)
- Misa Ishii as Arata Hattori (rightmost)
The anime stars:
- Manaka Nakayama as Danko Ichigeki
- Kaori Maeda as Chinko Kobotoke
- Akira Sekine as Mochiko Etai
- Yō Taichi as Susan Canon
- Yū Sasahara as Honey Otohana
- Katsuyuki Konishi as Danpei Ichigeki, Danko's father (as an adult)
- Tetsu Inada as Chinnen Kobotoke, Chinko's father
- Sumire Uesaka as Hako Mikasa
Noriko Hidaka, who voiced Danpei Ichigeki in the earlier Honō no Tōkyūji Dodge Danpei anime, is reprising the role of Danpei in the new anime's scenes set in the past, as well as narrating this sequel anime.
Hiroshi Ikehata is directing the anime at CUE, with Kazuho Hyōdō in charge of series scripts and Narihito Sekikawa designing the characters and serving as the chief animation director. Girl group Momoiro Clover Z performs the opening theme song "Kaishin no Ichigeki" (A Masterful Play), and voice acting idol unit i☆Ris performs the ending theme song "Welcome to Azatosa World."
The anime will premiere on July 6 on Tokyo MX and BS11 at 11:00 p.m. JST, then on MBS on July 7.
