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Doreiku Anime Casts Katsuyuki Konishi as Ataru

posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
Survival game series premieres in April

The April issue of Dorei-ku: Boku to 23-nin no Dorei (Slave District: 23 Slaves and Me) manga.

The Seven Deadly Sins' Dreyfus) is ing the cast as Ataru Chūō (pictured bottom right in image below).

The previously announced cast includes:

Kiznaiver's Noriko Sonozaki) as Eia Arakawa


Recovery of an MMO Junkie's Hayashi) as Yūga Ōta


Girlish Number's Chitose) as Julia Katsushika


Blood Blockade Battlefront's Zed O'Brien) as Seiya Shinjuku


Ojisan to Marshmallow's Machida, King's Game The Animation's Mitsuki Yukimura) as Ayaka Toshima


High School DxD) is deg the characters and serving as chief animation director.

The anime will Netflix in Japan.

The story is a survival game between 24 people who each have a device called an SCM (slave control method), which can make their opponent into their slave. Each person has their own reason for participating in the game.

The manga is an adaptation of Okada's Boku to 23-nin no Dorei novels, which initially serialized on the novel submission site Everystar. Futabasha published three volumes for the main series, as well as the Doreiku 2nd Shinjuku Kikō Kai sequel and the Dorei-ku: Boku to 23-nin no Dorei.ex side story. Okada and Ōishi are publishing a new sequel titled Dai Doreiku: Kimi to 1-Oku 3-Senban no Dorei, and the second compiled book volume shipped on December 1. The Doreiku series' physical and digital volumes have a total of more than 3.3 million copies in circulation.

Ōishi launched the manga adaptation on Everystar in 2012, and Futabasha published the full series in 10 compiled volumes.

A live-action film adaptation starring Kanata Hongō opened in Japan in June 2014.


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