It has been announced that "Dead Account", a manga by Shizumu Watanabe, which is currently being serialized on Kodansha's web manga service "Magapoke", will be adapted into a TV anime. The main cast has also been announced, with Nobuhiko Okamoto playing the protagonist, Enjo Souri. Koki Uchiyama will play Kasumi Ryūkaku and Fairouz Ai will play Urushigawa Kiyō. The anime will be produced by Synergy SP.
The work is a manga that began serialization in "Weekly Shonen Magazine" (Kodansha) in January 2023 and is currently being serialized in "Magapoke". It is a "modern-style exorcism" battle action set in a school that trains new-age spiritualists who exorcise ghosts that have become digital with the spread of the Internet. In order to earn money for the medical expenses of his younger sister, Hisari, Sori Enjo was streaming daily as a flame war streamer, Agaringo, but after a certain incident, Enjo opened his eyes to electricity and was taken to Miden Academy, which is always full of suspicious rumors.
Author Watanabe commented, "Dead Account will be made into a TV anime! A major theme of the work is the 'generational change between analog and digital,' and when you think about it, television is one of the things that has made the transition from analog to digital. I was reminded of my childhood, glued to my CRT TV watching anime, and it slowly dawned on me that it's going to be made into an anime. Thanks to the wonderful staff and actors, Dead Account has been made even more powerful than the original, so please look forward to it!"
Okamoto, who plays Enjo Souri, said, "In the internet society, I think there are various genres of streaming and ways of using SNS, but Enjo's streaming is of the 'flaming' genre. The fun of 'Dead Account' is that this genre becomes an ability itself. I hope you enjoy it, including finding out why this straightforward guy becomes a flaming person!"
Uchiyama, who plays Kasumi Ryūkaku, a student in Class B on the first floor of Yaden Academy, said, "Kasumi Ryūkaku, whom I voice, is a student at Yaden Academy and fights with a hammer. I often use foul language like, 'Damn it...!', but I reflect on it every time I do so. He has a basically cool personality, but he also has passionate emotions, so I am doing my best to express the various sides of Kasumi Ryūkaku. One after another unique characters will appear, and the action of the various fighting styles will be portrayed in a very fascinating way, so please be sure to watch it."
