Sugita Voices the Brother Who Is Already Gone
Sōichirō Kurebayashi never gets to be a present-tense character in Dengeki Daisy. He is Teru's only family, he dies, and he leaves behind a cell phone that connects her to a stranger signing off as DAISY. That is the role Tomokazu Sugita (Gintoki Sakata in Gintama, Joseph Joestar in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure) has taken.
In his comment on the casting, Sugita said he had narrated a voice comic version of the series before, so the material already meant something to him. He added that he is calibrating how much presence to give a character the story hinges on. Readers of Kyousuke Motomi's manga will know why that calibration matters: how much of Sōichirō the audience sees, and when, is part of how the story is built.
Three more names landed with him. Yuka Terasaki plays Riko Onizuka, whom she describes as a caring older sister who looks out for Teru and Kurosaki. Terasaki added that she grew up loving shojo manga of this era, which makes working on Dengeki Daisy across that gap of years a particular kind of pleasure.
Setsuji Satō voices Masuda, the dependable adult known as "Master." Satō noted that he has not often had the chance to play a role this grown-up, that he has been enjoying watching over the two young leads from the sidelines, and that he sometimes causes trouble with ad-libs. Kōhei Amasaki rounds out the group as Akira, and said he went into the audition set on that specific part. He called it a demanding one, praised leads Yoshino Aoyama and Taku Yashiro for keeping morale high in the studio, and mentioned he had worked with director Sōta Ueno before.
A Betsucomi Classic Finally Gets Its Anime
For readers coming in cold: Teru Kurebayashi is a high school girl who, after losing her brother, holds onto the emails arriving on the phone he gave her from a mystery sender called DAISY. Then she breaks a window at school and ends up working off the debt as the personal servant of the janitor, Tasuku Kurosaki. Kurosaki is sharp-tongued and works her into the ground, yet he somehow watches out for her too. That meeting is what reroutes her life.
Motomi serialized Dengeki Daisy in Shogakukan's shojo magazine Betsucomi from 2007 to 2013, running 16 volumes and passing 5 million copies in print worldwide. Aoyama, whose breakout was Hitori Gotoh in Bocchi the Rock!, voices Teru, with Yashiro as Kurosaki.
Studio Deen Gets Half a Year
The schedule is the other half of the announcement, and the more consequential half. Two consecutive cours starting January 2027 means a straight half-year run with no gap, which is a generous amount of runway for a 16-volume romance built on a slow reveal. Plenty of shojo adaptations get 12 episodes and a shrug.
Studio Deen is animating, with Ueno directing, Sawako Hirabayashi on series composition, Ayaka Murakami on character design and Masaru Yokoyama scoring. Jin Aketagawa is sound director, with sound production at Magic Capsule.
The first key visual places the four new characters alongside Teru and Kurosaki: Sōichirō, Riko, Masuda and Akira. The first main promo video, posted to the Aniplex Channel, is where those four voices debut. Japanese anime news site Anime Anime carries the full comments from all four cast members.
Looking Ahead
January 2027 is the date to mark, with the specific broadcast slot and streaming schedule still unannounced. Internationally, Crunchyroll is set to stream the series, so English-speaking viewers should not be waiting on a license announcement closer to the premiere.
The manga is already fully available in English. Viz Media published all 16 volumes under its Shojo Beat imprint, starting with volume 1 in July 2010, and the series is in Viz's digital library. Japan is also getting a new deluxe edition from Shogakukan, with the first volume already out. No word yet on theme song artists or the episode count for either cour.