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Jellyfish Can't Swim in the Night Anime's Main Promo Video Reveals More Cast & Staff, Songs, April 6 Debut
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The official website for Doga Kobo's original television anime series Jellyfish Can't Swim in the Night (Yoru no Kurage wa Oyogenai) started streaming the anime's main promotional video on Wednesday. The video reveals more cast and staff members, the anime's opening and ending theme songs, and April 6 premiere.
The newly announced cast members are:
The anime also revealed new staff members:
- Sub-Character Design: Chiaki Nakajima, Shuri
- Costume Design: Shino Kuzuhara, Shōko Nagasawa
- Prop Design: Miyu Hattori
- Art Director: Yūji Kaneko
- Art Setting: Akihiro Hirasawa
- Color Design: Kei Ishiguro
- Compositing Director of Photography: Takafumi Kuwano
- Editing: Kashiko Kimura
The anime will premiere on April 6 on the TOKYO MX and BS11 channels at 25:00 JST (effectively, April 7 at 1:00 a.m. JST, or April 6 at 12:00 p.m. EDT). The anime will then air on Kansai TV and AT-X channels on April 7 and on HTB Hokkaido TV on April 8, with other venues planned. The anime celebrates the 50th anniversary of Doga Kobo.
KanoeRana performs the anime's opening theme song titled "Irodori" (coloring), and female singer Anna Tsurushima will perform the ending theme song "Ichi-nichi wa 25-jikan" (A Day Is 25 Hours). (The "Ichi-nichi wa 25-jikan" song plays first in the video above.) Musician 40mP produces an insert song for the anyonymous artist "JELEE" in the anime's story.
The anime will also have a live viewing of its advance screening and cast talk show in Japan on March 3.
- Miku Itō as Mahiru Kōzuki
- Rie Takahashi as Kano Yamanouchi
- Miyu Tomita as Kiwi Watase
- Miyuri Shimabukuro as Mei "Kim Anouk" Takanashi
The youth story about a group of girls exposed to creativity will take place in Shibuya. JELEE is credited with the original work, and Ryohei Takeshita (Eromanga Sensei) is directing the series at Doga Kobo. popman3580 is the original character designer, and Junichirō Taniguchi (Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story, Touken Ranbu: Hanamaru) is adapting those designs for animation. Yūki Yaku (Bottom-tier Character Tomozaki light novel author) is writing and overseeing the series scripts.
Other staff members include:
- Chief Animation Directors: Junichirō Taniguchi, Akiko Toyoda, Asuka Suzuki
- Main Animators: Shinnosuke Ota, Saurabh Singh, Kazuma Nakao
- Onscreen Illustrations' Rough Sketches: Hamunesugo
- Sound Director: Eriko Kimura
- Music: Masaru Yokoyama
- Music Production: King Records
A manga adaptation by Niko Fujii will launch on Kodansha's Magazine Pocket app in April.
Sources: Jellyfish Can't Swim in the Night anime's website, Comic Natalie
