Dance with Devils


Dance with Devils is a Japanese anime television series. It began airing in October 2015 and has been licensed in North America by Funimation. A manga began serialization in GFantasy in September 2015. It is often abbreviated as "DWD" or DanDevi.
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Plot

Ritsuka Tachibana, a second-year high school student who attends Shikō Academy, lives a peaceful and quiet life with her mother, Maria Tachibana in Shikō Town. One day, she is summoned to the "Third Library", which is not allowed for students to enter except the members of the student council, on suspicion of violating school rules. There she meets the head of the student council, Rem Kaginuki and its other members; Urie Sogami, Mage Nanashiro, and Shiki Natsumezaka. After claiming her innocence and leaving the library, Ritsuka returns home to find that her house has been ransacked and her mother has been kidnapped. In addition, she is attacked by mysterious men who are searching for the whereabouts of a mysterious magic book known as the "Forbidden Grimoire", which will enable anyone who possesses it to rule the world. As her normal life falls apart, Ritsuka becomes embroiled in the conflict between the devils and vampires seeking to obtain the Forbidden Grimoire...

Characters

;Ritsuka Tachibana
;Rem Kaginuki
;Lindo Tachibana
;Urie Sogami
;Mage Nanashiro
;Shiki Natsumezaka
;Maria Tachibana
;Azuna Kuzuha
;Loewen
;Jek
;Nesta
;Marta Tachibana
;Maksis

Media

Anime

The anime television series is produced as a collaboration between video game developer company Rejet, music studio Elements Garden, and music company Avex. The series is directed by Ai Yoshimura, with the animation studio Brain's Base producing the animation. The series is written by Tomoko Konparu, based on a concept by Daisuke Iwasaki and Grimoire Henshūshitsu. Hirotaka Maeda and Yuka Takashina provide the series character designs. Junpei Fujita and DIVE II Entertainment produce the series' music, which is composed by Elements Garden. The opening theme song is "Kakusei no Air" by Wataru Hatano, and the closing theme song is "Mademo★iselle" by Pentacle★, a group composed of Sōma Saitō, Wataru Hatano, Takashi Kondo, Subaru Kimura, and Daisuke Hirakawa. It aired on Tokyo MX, Sun TV, and BS Fuji starting on 7 October 2015. Funimation licensed the series for release and simulcast in North America. Funimation also offered a "broadcast dub" for the series, starting on 11 November 2015.
An anime theatrical film was announced at a Dance with Devils concert event on 29 January 2017, titled Dance with Devils: Fortuna. It was released on 4 November 2017, with the staff and cast from the anime series returning to reprise their roles in the film.

Manga

An original manga, written and illustrated by Samako Natsu and titled Dance with Devils -Blight-, began publishing in Square Enix's shōnen magazine GFantasy on 18 September 2015. Rika Nakase will collaborate on the story.

Stage plays

A series of 2.5D musical stage plays began in 2016. The visuals reveals Daiki Ise as Jek, Kōhei Norizuki as Noel, Ryūjirō Izaki as Holland. The previously announced cast includes Keisuke Kaminaga as Rem Kaginuki, Jin Hiramaki as Lindo Tachibana, Tsubasa Sakiyama as Urie Sogami, Yū Yoshioka as Mage Nanashiro, Junpei Yasukawa as Shiki Natsumezaka, and Taiki Naitō as Loewen. Kaori Miuchi began to direct the musical and writing the script. The play will have 14 performances between 3–13 March 2016 in Tokyo. The second musical plays were started at 21–27 December 2016 and the third stage plays were started on 15–25 March 2018.

Video game

Rejet released a Dance with Devils game for PlayStation Vita on 24 March 2016. The theme song, composed by Elements Garden, is performed by Wataru Hatano. A sequel titled Dance with Devils: My Carol was released 22 March 2018. The theme song was also composed by Elements Garden.