Thoughts on The Vampire Dies in No Time Anime Staff and Cast

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The Vampire Dies in No Time has had an anime announcement a few months ago but we still had not received any news of the format, whether it would be a television series or an original video animation and the likes. But finally, after a long wait there has been news on the animation. It has been all but confirmed that the series is a TV series and also a normal length one at that. This however, is only part of the news the other and perhaps most excitingly is some of the staff that will be working in the anime have been announced as well. 

Firstly, we have the studio which has been has confirmed to be Studio Madhouse. Studio Madhouse is one of the older studios in Japan having been established in 1972 by formers Mushi Productions members. Throughout its life the studio animated a great variety of series many notables ones but also others that do not have the same recognition. However, studios themselves are a difficult to comment on as the animation work is often done by free lancers, only key staff positions tend to be done actual employees of the anime, in some cases and more frequently noways days the director and or other key positions are also free lancers hired to work for a particular series. In other words, a lot of the pool of directors, animators and other positions are shared between studios.

One significant aspect of Madhouse though is that it is majority owned by Nippon TV, one of the big television channels in Japan. This might mean the anime will air in NTV but this has not been exclusively the case for Madhouse works. However, the key cog in the machine here is the director.

Hiroshi Kojina is the director in charge of Vampire dies in No Time and his previous three directed series by Madhouse have aired in NTV. He has significant experience directing series but the last work he previously directed was Hunter x Hunter's 2011 adaptation, since then he has worked in many series, like Tada-kun Never Falls in Love and Blue Exorcist and many others, free lancing as a key animator like the type I previously mentioned. He only returned recently to directing at Sunrise the Mashin Hero Wataru original net animation series remake. He is clearly a very experienced and well rounded animator in the animation industry that has experienced working in almost all parts of the process throughout his career. It is therefore very good news for The Vampire Dies in No Time to have such a competent name heading the helm.

Accompanying him, the series composition is Suguwara Yukie. Her most recent work was at Madhouse with No Guns Life in which she had the same role. However,  her most known work is probably all the animated works of Overlord so far, which she has been the series composer for at Madhouse. She has done work in other series as well outside of Madhouse to other studios again probably as a free lancer. Her other works as a series composer have been Kino no Tabi: The Beautiful world and Hina Logi: From Luck to Logic for other studios. 

There is not much to comment on Suguware Yukie, she has experience but she has no experience in composing a gag comedy series like The Vampire Dies in No Time. But then again not many series in this genre are animated these days. However, I do not know if that matters too much and in the end of the day it might be easier to compose a gag series that does not really have an overarching plot. 

Moving onto character design, they will be handled by Nakano Mayuko. Once again, it is someone with previous experience in character design and a role in key animation in various series. One of the series she has design the characters for is Inazuma Eleven: Ares no Tenbin and Orion no Koukin and the two other series been Maiden Rose and WWW. WAGNARIA!!. One notable aspect of her works is that Inazuma Eleven is a series with a large female audience and Maiden Rose also seems like a work for the female audience. The importance of this is that The Vampire Dies in No Time has a notable female audience and appealing to this audience has been a key path to success for series like Osomatsu-kun. So, this is a rather good choice in my opinion. 

With the staff announcement, we also received the announcement for the voice actors for the main duo in The Vampire Dies in No Time. 

https://twitter.com/johnwakawaii/status/1324517845976297479

So we have Jun Fukuyama for the main character Draluc and Yoshikawa Makoto for Ronaldo. They also gave us a tease via a short twitter video with both voice actors voicing their characters. Both are experienced voice actors and the tease shows that they bounce each other very well. Of course, this is important since like many gag comedy series The Vampire Dies in No Time often has the boke-tsukomi comedy dynamic in which a character often Draluc but not always plays the boke and Ronaldo the tsukkomi. Because of this style of comedy it is rather important for the voice actors to play off each other well, but of course the tease puts me at rest and both have experience with comedy series as well. 

In general, The Vampire Dies in No Time has what it looks like a very competent staff that gives me hope that they can probably create a rather promising adaptation of the original work. I almost forgot but one last piece of news that came with announcement was that it will air in 2021. It seems too late for it to air in winter 2021, so it might possibly be in spring if not summer. 

We might get a visual next week and hopefully more news alongside it and if that is not the case, I at least hope news will not take as long as to come.