The official website for the television anime of Yoshifumi Tozuka‘s Undead Unluck manga unveiled on Friday a teaser trailer and visual for the upcoming one-hour special, and they reveal the new director and studio.
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Sung Hoo Park (Jujutsu Kaisen) is directing the special and handling storyboards at his studio E&H production. Yamato Haishima (Fire Force) is returning for the screenplay. Hideyuki Morioka (D.Gray-man) is returning to design characters with Shun’ichi Ishimoto (Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan). Kenichiro Suehiro (Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-) is again composing the music. UNLIMITED PRODUCE by TMS is again producing and planning the anime. david production, the animation studio for the first season, is providing cooperation.
Other staff members include:
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The special will premiere in winter 2025.
The special will feature a completely original story written by Tozuka. Tozuka also designed a new UMA creature for the special.
The original announcement for the special as well as the new reveals coincide with the day that the series’ main characters Fuuko and Andy met, August 1.
The anime’s world premiere was held at Shinjuku Piccadilly in Tokyo before its television premiere in October 2023. The anime is streaming on Hulu. The series ended with its 24th episode in March 2024.
Moe Kahara stars as Fuuko Izumo and Yūichi Nakamura voices Andy.
TMS Entertainment describes the anime:
What happens when an unlucky girl meets an undead guy? Pure chaos!
Tired of inadvertently killing people with her special ability Unluck, Fuuko Izumo sets out to end it all. But when she meets Andy, a man who longs for death but can’t die, she finds a reason to live—and he finds someone capable of giving him the death he’s been longing for.
The anime reunited the main staff of the Fire Force anime. Yuki Yase directed the anime at david production (JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure). Morioka designed the characters for animation, and Suehiro composed the music. UNLIMITED PRODUCE by TMS produced and planned the anime.
Tozuka published the manga in Weekly Shonen Jump as a one-shot in January 2019, and then launched a serialized version in the magazine in January 2020. The manga ended its magazine serialization on January 27. Shueisha published the manga’s 27th and final compiled book volume on April 4, and it included five epilogue chapters.
Viz Media began publishing the manga digitally in January 2020, and began publishing it in print in May 2021. Shueisha‘s MANGA Plus service is also releasing the manga digitally.
The manga ranked at #14 on the Kono Manga ga Sugoi! 2021 list of manga for male readers. The manga also won the sixth “Tsugi ni Kuru Manga Taishō” (up-and-coming manga awards) in August 2020.
Sources: Undead Unluck anime’s website, Comic Natalie
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