Buddy Daddies Original Anime To Premiere Next January, Main Staff Revealed

October 22, 2022

The previously teased P.A.Works-produced “buddy anime” is titled Buddy Daddies and will premiere in January 2023. The show has the tagline, “Family Story of Two Killers and a Girl.”

Those two killers are played by the previously announced main cast of Toshiyuki Toyonaga and Kouki Uchiyama. Their co-habitating characters are named Kazuki Kurusu and Rei Suwa respectively.

The girl they are protecting, Miri Unasaka, is voiced by Hina Kino. Miri’s character profile describes her as the four-year-old daughter of a mafia boss-slash-human trafficking broker and his lover, who gets caught up in a gun fight while searching for her father.

As for Buddy Daddies‘s staff, it was revealed that Yoshiyuki Asai (The Day I Became a God, Fate/Apocrypha) is directing the original anime with Katsumi Enami (Baccano! illustrator, The Legend of Heroes: Kuro no Kiseki character illustrator) as original character designer. Other staff include Nitroplus’ Vio Shimokura (You, Me, and Her: A Love Story scenario writer) as story draft writer, Yuko Kakihara (The Aquatope on White Sand) and Shimokura as series composers, and Round Table’s Katsutoshi Kitagawa as music composer.