The TV anime adaptation of Yuji Nakamura’s Rokudo’s Bad Girls comedy manga has revealed its first trailer, opening and ending theme songs, and additional cast. The anime will premiere on April 7.
The trailer highlights the unfortunate story of the protagonist, Tosuke Rokudo, played by Gen Sato, and his encounter with the mysterious scroll that grants him to superpower to be loved by bad women. As he navigates this new power, he is drawn into the dangerous world of the school’s bad girls, including gang leaders, delinquents, and gyarus.
It also reveals the anime’s additional cast members, including Daisuke Namikawa as Masaru Hinomoto, and Akira Ishida as Kota Kijima, both close friends of the protagonist.
The anime also revealed the opening and ending themes for the adaptation. The opening theme song “ENDLESS LABYRINTH” is performed by EverdreaM, a new Japanese band shrouded in mystery. The ending theme song “Love Will Find A Way” is performed by The Rampage From Exile Tribe.
▍Rokudo’s Bad Girls Anime Additional Characters
■ Masaru Hinomoto (a.k.a. Taisa) – CV: Daisuke Namikawa
A close friend of Tosuke. He cares for his friends and has excellent observation sense. He is a military geek.
■ Kota Kijima (a.k.a. Kachō) – CV: Akira Ishida
A close friend of Tosuke. He is a kind-hearted person but definitely does not look like a high school student.
▍About Rokudo’s Bad Girls
Yūji Nakamura started serializing Rokudo’s Bad Girls in Akita Shoten’s Weekly Shōnen Champion from June 2016 to April 2021, with its chapters collected into twenty-six tankōbon volumes.
Tosuke Rokudo, a timid first-year student at Amori High School, a school attended mainly by delinquents, just wants to live a peaceful life with his friends. But because his delinquent classmates constantly bully him, this seems impossible. One day, Tosuke receives a mysterious package from his long-deceased grandfather, inside he finds, a mysterious scroll passed down within his family since the Japanese Heian period, which is said to be able to exorcise demons.
With hopes of changing his current situation, he activates the scroll, initially thinking it seems of no use with the delinquents at his school, this changes when a delinquent girl rescues him from a bully who was tormenting him. After realizing the potential of his new ability, Rokudou vows to become stronger and use his power to achieve his dream of having a peaceful school life.
▍Rokudo’s Bad Girls Anime Staff & Production
Original Work: Rokudou no Onna-tachi by Yuji Nakamura (Serialized in Akita Shoten’s Weekly Shonen Champion)
Director: Keiya Saitou
Series Composition: Yuuichirou Momose
Character Design: Shinya Segawa
Sub-character Design: Hideaki Onishi
Mechanical Design: Hiroyuki Taiga
Prop Design: Yasuyoshi Uetsu, Tomoaki Chishima
Art Director: Kenichi Tajiri (Mukuo Studio)
Color Design: Yoshimi Kawakami
Director of Photography: Yujiro Yamane (Inaho)
Editing: Shuji Matsumoto
Sound Director: Kouji Yamamoto
Animation Production: Satelight
▍Rokudo’s Bad Girls Anime Cast
■ Tosuke Rokudo – CV: Gen Sato
■ Ranna Himawari – CV: Sumire Uesaka
■ Sayuri Osanada – CV: Naomi Ozora
■ Azami Himeno – CV: Yuki Yomichi
■ Tsubaki – CV: Misato Matsuoka
■ Mizue Tsuyukusa – CV: Hitomi Sekine
■ Haruya Iinuma – CV: Haruki Ishiya
■ Masaru Hinomoto – CV: Daisuke Namikawa
■ Kota Kijima – CV: Akira Ishida