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Kaiju Girls Short Anime Reveals 6 Additional Cast Members

The official website of the Kaijū Girls ~Ultra Kaijū Gijinka Keikaku~ series of anime shorts revealed more cast for the anime last Sunday. The additional cast includes:

Sora Tokui as Pigmon

Emiri Katō as Zetton

Hiromi Igarashi as Red King

Megumi Han as Eleking

Ayaka Suwa as Gomora/Mikazuki Kuroda

Kaede Yuasa as Zandrias

They will join the previously revealed main cast, which includes:

Riho Iida as Agira/Aki Miyashita

Aina Suzuki as Miclas/Miku Ushimaru

Yurika Endō as Windom/Reika Shiragane

Iida, Suzuki, and Endō will perform the series' theme song. The staff accepted suggestions for the trio's group name until July 15.

Minoru Ashina (Kōkaku Kidōtai Nyumon Arise, Spelunker Sensei) is directing the anime at Studio Puyukai and Medicrie. Yasuharu Takanashi (Boruto -Naruto the Movie-, Fairy Tail Zero) is composing the music, Junichi Inaba (Hotarubi no Mori e, Noragami Aragoto) is directing the sound, and Norimitsu Kaihō (School-Live!, Gunslinger Stratos: The Animation series composition) provided the original concept and is in charge of setting. The anime's original character designers include: Nekosuke Ōkuma (Nitroplus), Hiroshi Tani, CHOCO, Jirō Tomioka, Namaniku ATK (Nitroplus), Nekokan Masshigura (Nitroplus), Bakutendo, and minoa (Nitroplus).

Tsuburaya Productions previously streamed a trailer for the anime in March.

The shorts are slated to premiere on the d Anime Store (Docomo Anime Store) service this fall. The project's official website has also revealed that manga, novel, and other projects are in development.

The Ultra Kaijū Gijinka Keikaku project transforms kaijū (monsters) from the Ultraman live-action special-effects series into cute, female anthropomorphized monsters. The project already inspired the Ultra Kaijū Gijinka Keikaku Galaxy Days four-panel manga. Kadokawa released the second compiled book volume on June 24.

[Via Otakomu]