Undead Unluck Anime To Debut In October!

On Thursday, TMS Entertainment announced that Hulu has acquired the rights to the Undead Unluck anime and will debut it in October.

It was revealed that the anime will be featured at Hulu’s interactive Entertainment Hall activation at Anime Expo 2023 this weekend. Voice actors Natsuki Hanae and Moe Kahara, manga editor Takumi Hashimoto, editor of the Undead Unluck manga, and producer Ryota Hasegawa will be present as guests.

Furthermore, there is an additional event scheduled for the anime at the convention on Sunday.

On Tuesday, TMS Entertainment and Bang Zoom! Studios will hold open auditions for a role in the English dub of the anime at the Anime Expo.

TWS Entertainment describes the anime as:

Tired of inadvertently killing people with her special ability Unluck, Fuuko Izumo sets out to end it all. But when she meets Andy, a man who longs for death but can’t die, she finds a reason to live—and he finds someone capable of giving him the death he’s been longing for.

The anime reunites the main staff of the Fire Force anime. Yuki Yase is directing the anime at david production (JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure). Hideyuki Morioka is designing the characters for animation, and Kenichiro Suehiro is composing the music. UNLIMITED PRODUCE by TMS is producing and planning the anime.

The anime will star Moe Kahara as Fuuko Izumo, Yūichi Nakamura as Andy, Kenji Nomura as Void, and Natsuki Hanae as Shen.

ozuka published the manga in Weekly Shonen Jump as a one-shot in January 2019, and then launched a serialized version in the magazine in January 2020. Viz Media began publishing the manga digitally in January 2020, and began publishing it in print in May 2021. Shueisha’s MANGA Plus service is also releasing the manga digitally.

The manga ranked at #14 on the Kono Manga ga Sugoi! 2021 list of manga for male readers. The manga also won the sixth “Tsugi ni Kuru Manga Taishō” (up-and-coming manga awards) in August 2020.

Source: TMS ENTERTAINMENT