Dance with Devils promo image

Dance with Devils Key Art

Earlier this year otome game developers Rejet and music production studios Elements Garden and Avex announced that they would be collaborating with each other on a project called Dance with Devils. The project would include a new original TV anime of the same name. Now Rejet has begun streaming the first commercial for the new anime. The commercial can be seen below.

Prior to this Rejet streamed two other PVs providing information for the anime which included the main cast, the staff working on the project as well as previewing the anime’s opening theme. These two PVs can be seen below.

The Main Cast is as follows:

  • Himika Akaneya as Ritsuka Tachibana
  • Soma Saito as Rem Kaginuki
  • Wataru Hatano as Lindo Tachibana
  • Takashi Kondo as Urie Sogami
  • Subaru Kimura as Mage Nanashiro
  • Daisuke Hirakawa as Shiki Natsumezaka

The designs of the main characters can be seen below.

Dance with Devils Ritsuko Tachibana Dance with Devils Rem Kaginuki

 

Dance with Devils Lindo Tachibana Dance with Devils Urie Sogami

Dance with Devils Mage Nanashiro Dance with Devils Shiki Natsumezaka

Anime News Network provides a synopsis of the series:

Ritsuka Tachibana is a female second-year high school student who attends Shiko Academy in Shiko Town. She enjoyed her school life while living with her mother Maria, but one day, that balance fell into ruin when she discovers several of her attractive, male classmate are demons.  The anime is a story of Ritsuka being loved and being attracted to demons.

Dancing with Devils opening will be performed by Wataru Hatano and the ending will be performed by Pentacle★.Pentacle★is a unit composed of the main cast of the series. The opening will be named “Kakusei no Air” while the ending will be called “Mademo★iselle”.

Ai Yoshimura will be directing Dancing with Devils. Yoshimura has previously worked on Blue Spring Ride and My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU. Rejet’s Daisuke Iwasaki wrote the original concept for the anime and Grimoire Henshūshitsu wrote the original story. Tomoko Konparu is in charge of the series composition and will base the scripts off Iwasaki and Grimoire’s original concept and story. Konparu has previously worked on Blue Spring Ride with Yoshimura. Elements Garden will be composing the music and Junpei Fujita and DIVE II Entertainment will produce the music. The original character designs are by Rejet’s Hirotaka Maeda. Yuka Takashina will be adapting the designs for the anime. Brain’s Base will be producing the anime. They are known for anime such as Natsume’s Book of Friends and One Week Friends.

If the series interests you at all please visit the official website hereDance with Devils will be premiering in the fall in October.

SOURCES: 1, 2, 3, 4

Patrick Aguda
Patrick is an avid fan of both video games and anime. He has been a fan of anime since his older sister introduced him to the genre when he was younger. He grew up watching shows such as Cardcaptor Sakura, Digimon Adventure, Gundam Wing, Dragon Ball Z, Tenchi Muyo and Yu Yu Hakusho. His favorite games include Persona 3 Portable, Steambot Chronicles and the .hack//G.U. trilogy. He strongly believes that Sinon, Maki and Mash are best girls.