Dead Dead Demon’s Dededede Destruction debuts with Vancouver-produced dub
Crunchyroll debuted the first episode (technically, episode 0) of Dead Dead Demon’s Dededede Destruction yesterday in both Japanese and with an English dub made in Vancouver by Ocean Productions. The series is an adaptation of Inio Asano’s manga of the same, which was serialized in Shogakukan’s Big Comic Spirits magazine between 2014 and 2022. Production +h. handled animation duties on the series, while Tomoyuki Kurokawa directed it from a script by Reiko Yoshida. Taro Umebayashi produced the score.
In Japan, the anime launched earlier this year as a duology of films, with the first part released on March 22nd and the second following on May 23rd. Internationally, it is being distributed as a greatly expanded 18-episode weekly series.
As the world is threatened by the sudden appearance of a mysterious alien mothership, best friends Koyama Kadode and Nakagawa “Ontan” Oran carry on about their high school life. But as they grow up, they face existential questions, learning adulthood’s complexities and that the true threat may not be from above.
The English cast and crew include:
- Nobuo voiced by Giles Panton
- Kimika voiced by Michelle Creber
- Hako voiced by Lexi Ly
- Kadode voiced by Elyse Maloway
- Kohiruimaki voiced by Graham Hamilton
- Futaba voiced by Chelsea Miller
- Makoto voiced by Travis Turner
- Hanazawa voiced by Bill Newton
- Editor voiced by Michael Dobson
Karl Willems directed the dub from scripts by Jack Cox and Paul Baldwin.
As of this writing it is not clear if the dub was commissioned by Crunchyroll or one of Dead Dead Demon’s Dededede Destruction’s production committee members. Over the last decade, the bulk of Ocean’s anime work has come directly from Japanese rights holders and their subsidiaries. Recent collaborators include Bushiroad, Nippon Animation, Toei Animation and TV Tokyo. The latter is listed as the publisher of this series on Crunchyroll, though, the dubs they’ve commissioned have historically consisted of titles that are either obscure or older. That said, things can change. If this was greenlit by Crunchyroll, it marks the first time the company has worked with Ocean since Kiznaiver in 2017. Work on that series predates the streaming service’s on-and-off partnership with Funimation and both’s eventual purchase and merger by Sony Pictures.
The only other Canadian anime dub to launch this year has been Cardfight!! Vanguard Divinez, the latest entry in Bushiroad’s long-running TCG franchise. New episodes, dubbed in Alberta at Blue Water Studios, debut weekly on YouTube. Canadian voice actors have been more prolific when it comes to Japanese video games, however. The crew behind Dragalia Lost’s English dub gave newer Vancouver talent a shot in Nintendo and Arc System Works’ Another Code: Recollection. Montreal’s Game On handled Square Enix’s SaGa: Emerald Beyond and seem to be on-tap to return for next month’s Monster Hunter Stories remaster.
Earlier this month, the first 50 episodes of Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai and the entirety of World Trigger became available to stream on Netflix across many markets, including Canada. Both feature their English dubs produced by Ocean.
I Miss Bionix 
No trackbacks yet.