Fool Night Unveils Theme Songs and Five More Characters Ahead of Netflix Debut
Netflix will release the full series on November 26, with Sunrise and SHAFT handling animation.
Bandai Namco Filmworks released a new Fool Night trailer and visual on Thursday. Tempalay performs the opening song, while Nowlu sings the ending theme.
Bandai Namco Filmworks shared a new trailer and visual on Thursday for the television anime adapting Kasumi Yasuda's Fool Night manga. It also announced the theme song artists and additional cast.
The main trailer previews the opening song, “Shake! spit out,” performed by the band Tempalay. Nowlu sings the ending theme, “Iki” (Breath).
Netflix will release the entire series on November 26.
The additional cast announcement featured these characters:
- Sumi
- Ken
- Nishi
- Meg
- Ivy
The previously announced voice cast includes:
- Kōki Uchiyama as Toshiro Kamiya
- Minako Kotobuki as Yomiko Horai
- Junya Enoki as Akira Yatsuka
- Aya Endō as Saeko Kanaeno
- Kiyomitsu Mizuuchi as Jin Hiragishi
The anime's main production staff includes:
- Director: Atsuyuki Yukawa, a unit director on Suzume, working at Sunrise and SHAFT
- Script: Jin Tanaka (Oshi no Ko)
- Character Design: Robert Satō
- Music: Tatsuya Katō (Dr. Stone)
Other staff members are:
- Assistant Director: Ryō Shimura
- Visual Development: Ryō Kikuchi
- Art Director: Maki Takano (J.C. Staff)
- Color Design: Jin Hibino
- Directors of Photography: Mana Ishikawa (animocaramel), Chiaki Tokuda (Tera Effect), and Takayuki Aizu (SHAFT)
- CG Directors: Naoki Yamamoto and Junya Hirano
- Editing: Rie Matsubara (Seyama Editing Room)
- Sound Director: Yōta Tsuruoka
Viz Media licensed the manga. Its synopsis follows Kamiya, whose wages barely cover his sick mother's medication, leaving little for food.
Running out of options, he considers transfloration, a process that would change his life. Prepared to surrender his body for money, Kamiya faces the limits of a society whose humanity is fading.
Yasuda began the manga in Shogakukan's Big Comic Superior magazine in November 2020. Shogakukan published its 13th collected volume on June 30.
The series placed 12th on the male readers' list in the 2023 edition of Takarajimasha's Kono Manga ga Sugoi! (This Manga Is Amazing!) guidebook.
Source: Press release
