The production team for the Firefighter Daigo: Rescuer in Orange TV anime has revealed four new cast members that will be joining the series. The anime is scheduled to premiere sometime in Fall 2023.
The new voice cast members include Yuuichi Nakamura as Sadaie Matoi, Tetsu Inada as Kyosuke Yamagami, Youhei Azakami as Hasebe, and Ryouta Iwasaki as Watari. They join Junya Enoki as Daigo, Taku Yashiro as Shun, and Ayane Sakura as Yuki.
The production staff for the anime series includes Masahiko Murata (To Your Eternity Season 1) as director, Shinzou Fujita (To Your Eternity) as series screenwriter, and Hitomi Tsuruta (Futsal Boys!!!!! sub-character designer) and Kouji Yabuno (To Your Eternity) as character designers. Brain’s Base is in charge of the animation production for the series.
The anime is based on the manga series written by Masahito Soda and drawn by Kuro Tomiyama, which began serialization in Kodansha’s Monthly Shonen Magazine in October 6, 2020. Seven tankoubon volumes have been released as of May 2023.
Firefighter Daigo: Rescuer in Orange is a sequel to Soda’s original Firefighter! Daigo of Fire Company M manga, which was serialized in Shogakukan’s Weekly Shounen Sunday from September 6, 1995 to June 16, 1999. Twenty tankoubon volumes were released in total.
The original manga also inspired a 1999 anime film from Sunrise and an 11-episode live-action television drama series that ran on Fuji TV from January 6, 2004 to March 16, 2004.
Crunchyroll will stream the anime series and describes the story as:
Toake Daigo burns with remarkable talent and unparalleled determination. Onoda Shun struggles against the walls blocking his own path. Nakamura Yuki hopes to become one of the few female members of the special rescue corps known as “Orange.” When these three young firefighters who share the goal of becoming members of Orange come together, the story of how Japan will one day be saved begins… and what looms before them is a crisis that endangers the entire country!
Source: Firefighter Daigo: Rescuer in Orange Official Japanese Twitter
