Kodoani.com – Anime Official Website Phantom of the Idol (Kami Kuzu Idol) of Hijiki Isoflavone began teasing the anime’s teaser on Sunday. The video reveals the staff, five more members, and the anime’s summer premiere. The video also reveals the song “Koi no BANG” by ZINGS.
The website also revealed a key image.
Daisei Fukuoka is directing the anime at Studio Gokumi.
Yasuko Aoki is writing and supervising the series’ scripts, Saori Hosoda is designing the characters, and myu is composing the music.
The new voice cast includes:
Eri Kitamura voices Hitomi Shinano Hitomi Ueda voices Kasenjiki Yō Taichi voices Tsugiko Manaka Iwami voices Shigutaro Sho Hayami Voices Narrator The previously announced cast includes: Fumiya Imai as Yuuya Niyodo Nao Tōyama as Asahi Mogami Shun Horie as Kazuki Yoshino
Imai and Horie also formed a new idol group called ZINGS. In the manga and anime, the characters Yuuya Niyodo (voiced by Imai) and Kazuki Yoshino (voiced by Horie) also form the pop duo ZINGS.
Kodansha Comics licensed the manga and it describes the story:
Yuuya, one half of the male pop duo ZINGS, may be the laziest performer in the Japanese music industry. The guy’s partner out there gives out 110% a night (and luckily, he’s pretty popular), but Yuuya’s lame, sloppy dancing and his outspoken hostility towards the audience fake, causing fans to hate him and his agent to find all sorts of excuses. The career of a pop idol is not the easy path of comfort and popularity that Yuuya expects…
After a particularly lifeless performance, Yuuya meets a girl backstage. She wears colorful clothes, she is full of energy and vitality, and all she wants from life is to perform. There’s only one problem: She’s been dead for a year. This is the ghost of Asahi Mogami, the beloved singer whose stage time is tragically cut short, unless… If ghosts are real, does soul possession really last. to that?
Isoflavone launched the manga in Comic Zero Sum in December 2017. Ichijinsha published the manga’s fifth compiled book volume on January 25. Kodansha Comics will publish the first volume in English on May 22.
