Dengeki Daisy lands a January 2027 anime and two cours
Kyousuke Motomi's shōjo thriller Dengeki Daisy is getting a January 2027 television anime that will run for two consecutive cours, with Studio DEEN animating.
The Dengeki Daisy anime has a start date, and it is a long one: January 2027, for two consecutive cours rather than the usual single-season trial run. The announcement came from a stage presentation at the KyoMAF event in Kyoto on Saturday, where the adaptation of Kyousuke Motomi's shōjo thriller showed its first main trailer and its first key visual.
The trailer opens on Teru and the phone that runs her life, which is the correct place to start. It confirms the January window in the title card and nothing more specific, so the exact premiere date and timeslot are still open.
What the announcement actually confirms
Studio DEEN is animating, with Sōta Ueno directing, Sawako Hirabayashi on series composition, Ayaka Murakami designing the characters and Masaru Yokoyama writing the score. Yoshino Aoyama plays Teru Kurebayashi and Taku Yashiro plays Tasuku Kurosaki, and the event added four names around them: Tomokazu Sugita as Sōichirō Kurebayashi, Yuka Terasaki as Riko Onizuka, Setsuji Satō as Masuda and Kōhei Amasaki as Akira. Crunchyroll has the streaming rights, though no territory or simulcast timetable has been published.
A 16-volume manga that finished in 2013
Motomi's manga ran in Shogakukan's Monthly Betsucomi from 2007 to 2013 and closed at 16 volumes, with more than five million copies in circulation worldwide. Viz Media's Shojo Beat imprint published it in English. Teru loses her older brother and holds herself together through messages that keep arriving on the phone he left behind, all signed DAISY. After she breaks a window at school she is put to work for the caretaker, Tasuku Kurosaki, who is rude, overworked and uncannily good at appearing when she is in trouble — which is either a coincidence or the entire plot.
Two cours is the part worth noticing
Commissioning a second cours before the first has aired is a statement. Shōjo adaptations are routinely given twelve episodes to prove themselves, and a half year is a bet that the source can carry the distance. It also forces a decision early: 16 volumes is far more story than 24-odd episodes will hold, so something is going to be cut or compressed, and that choice is being made now rather than after a season of ratings.
Our opinion
The most interesting thing about this announcement is the phone. A flip phone whose only messages come from a stranger with a flower for a name is a premise that only works if the audience accepts that one person's whole support network can fit on a two-inch screen, and that is exactly the kind of quiet, slightly obsolete detail a two-cours commission can afford to sit with instead of explaining away in episode one. The risk is not the romance; it is the length. Sixteen volumes of secrets compressed into two cours usually means the mystery gets solved faster than the characters earn the right to hear the answer, and Dengeki Daisy's whole hook is the slow reveal. Studio DEEN has the tone for this material, and committing to a half year is a rarer vote of confidence than any trailer card. Just remember that the last time a phone-based mystery was this loaded, everybody ended up arguing about the ending for a decade.