The official website and Twitter account for the TV anime adaptation of Nigojū and Umibōzu's The Detective Is Already Dead (Tantei wa Mō, Shindeiru.) light novel series has the “true” version of the anime’s fifth key visual after the twist revealed in Episode 8. The visual shows a happier time where Siesta, Alicia, and Kimizuka walk together side-by-side in the daylight of London's streets.
MARY x jon-YAKITORY will be performing the opening song "Koko de Ikiteru." (We're Alive Here.). Vocaloid producer jon-YAKITORY also wrote the lyrics and composed and arranged the music.
Virtual YouTuber Kagura Nana is performing the ending theme song titled, "Kodō" (Heartbeat).
The anime is set to premiere in July 4, 2021.
TRUE VERSION:
ORIGINAL VERSION:
3RD PV:
MAIN CAST:
Shin Nagai as Kimihiko Kimizuka
Saki Miyashita as Siesta
Ayana Taketatsu as Nagisa Natsunagi
Kanon Takao as Yui Saikawa
Saho Shirasu as Charlotte Arisaka Anderson
The cast also includes:
Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Kōmori
Takehito Koyasu as Chameleon
Maria Naganawa as Alicia
Mai Fuchigami as Fūbi Kase
Manabu Kurihara is directing the anime at ENGI, and Deko Akao is in charge of the series scripts. Yōsuke Itō is desiging the characters.
Yen Press will start publishing the novels in English in June 2021.
The novels center around Kimihiko Kimizuka, a third-year high school student and former assistant of a detective named Siesta. He made Siesta's acquaintance three years ago, 10,000 meters above the ground in a hijacked plane. The two went on one death-defying adventure after another for three years that eventually ended with Siesta's untimely death. Left alone, Kimihiko tries his best to reintegrate himself back into a normal life.