Crunchyroll has announced that the TV anime adaptation of Ryohgo Narita and Shinta Fujimoto's Dead Mount Death Play manga will be joining their Spring 2023 season lineup.
Yen Press publishes the manga in English and describes the story as:
It's a showdown for the ages as the legendary hero takes on the corpse god necromancer, but when the dust settles, something isn't quite right... In the final moments of their epic confrontation, the corpse god's final gambit shot was wholly unexpected -- reincarnation magic! Across space and time, a boy named Polka Shinoyama awakens feeling...not quite himself...... Who could've expected that the climactic battle between good and evil would turn out like this??
Dead Mount Death Play is set to premiere in April 2023.
Manabu Ono is directing the anime, and is also supervising the series' scripts while penning them alongside Yukie Sugiwara and Yoriko Tomita. Takaharu Ōkuma is credited as "sub-director," while Yoshiki Kitai is credited as the assistant director. GEEK TOYS is animating the series. Hisashi Abe is designing the characters. Takayuki Yamaguchi is the sound director. HALF H·P STUDIO is credited for sound production. F.M.F (Yūki Nara, eba, Kana Utatane) is composing the music.
OFFICIAL TRAILER:
The main cast includes:
Yuki Sakakihara as Polka Shinoyama
Inori Minase as Misaki Sakimiya
Yūma Uchida as Takumi Kuruya
Yuki Sakakihara as Polka Shinoyama
Inori Minase as Misaki Sakimiya
Yūma Uchida as Takumi Kuruya
TEASER VISUAL:
It's a showdown for the ages as the legendary hero takes on the corpse god necromancer, but when the dust settles, something isn't quite right... In the final moments of their epic confrontation, the corpse god's final gambit shot was wholly unexpected -- reincarnation magic! Across space and time, a boy named Polka Shinoyama awakens feeling...not quite himself...... Who could've expected that the climactic battle between good and evil would turn out like this??