The latest character visual from the upcoming Undead Girl Murder Farce anime series features James Moriarty (voiced by Wataru Yokojima), who is known as the archenemy of Sherlock Holmes. The anime is scheduled to premiere in July 2023.
Yokojima joins a main voice cast that includes Tomoyo Kurosawa as Aya Rindou, Taku Yashiro as Tsugaru Shinuchi, Makoto Koichi as Shizuku Hasei, Sayumi Suzushiro as Annie Keber, Shinichirou Miki as Sherlock Holmes, Masaki Aizawa as John H. Watson, Mamoru Miyano as Arsene Lupin, and Hiro Shimono as Phantom.
Mamoru Hatakeyama (Kaguya-sama: Love is War) is directing the anime with Noboru Takagi (In/Spectre) as series screenwriter, Noriko Itou (Kakegurui xx sub-character designer) as character designer and chief animation director, Naho Kozono (Shine On! Bakumatsu Bad Boys co-sub-character designer) as sub-character designer, and yuma yamaguchi as music composer. Lapin Track is in charge of the animation production for the series.
Undead Girl Murder Farce is based on Yuugo Aosaki’s supernatural novels of the same name. It was first published by Kodansha on December 17, 2015 under the Kodansha Taiga label. Three volumes have been released as of April 2021. A manga adaptation of the novel series was also launched by Haruka Tomoyama on June 25, 2016. Three tankoubon volumes have been released as of June 2018, with Kodansha USA releasing the manga series in English.
Crunchyroll will stream the anime worldwide, except in Japan. It describes the synopsis as:
The 19th century — a world inhabited by vampires, golems, werewolves and other paranormal creatures. Immortal beauty and disembodied head Aya Rindo, along with half-human-half-demon “Demon Killer” Tsugaru Shunichi and her loyal maid Shizuku Hasei, travels through Europe as supernatural detective “The Cage User,” solving supernatural mysteries while she searches for her lost body.
