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Fool Night Anime Sets November 26 Netflix Debut, Adds Cast

The production is the first-ever joint project between Sunrise and Shaft, two studios with distinct visual identities, and the English dub cast includes Adam McArthur and Olivia Liang, signaling Netflix's push for a global audience.

Key Facts

  • Fool Night anime will stream worldwide on Netflix starting November 26, 2026, with all episodes released at once.
  • The anime is the first collaboration between Sunrise and Shaft, directed by Atsuyuki Yukawa.
  • New cast includes Junya Enoki as Akira Yatsuki, Aya Endo as Saeko Kano, and Kiyomitsu Mizuuchi as Jin Hiragishi.
  • The English dub cast includes Adam McArthur and Olivia Liang.
  • The original Fool Night manga by Kasumi Yasuda has been serialized in Big Comic Superior since November 2020, with 13 volumes released.

Reporting from 6 sources: Anime News Network, Denfaminicogamer, Anime Anime, Anime Corner, and 2 more.

Fool Night Anime Sets November 26 Netflix Debut, Adds Cast

Bandai Namco Filmworks announced at Anime NYC 2026 that the Fool Night anime will stream worldwide on Netflix starting November 26, with all episodes released at once. The series is the first collaboration between Sunrise and Shaft, directed by Atsuyuki Yukawa, who previously worked as a unit director on Suzume. The second teaser trailer and new cast were revealed alongside the date. Junya Enoki voices Akira Yatsuki, deputy head of the personnel department at the Fourth Tenka Institute; Aya Endo voices Saeko Kano, a former soldier and Akira's bodyguard; and Kiyomitsu Mizuuchi voices Jin Hiragishi, head of the 'Nashi Division' who hires protagonist Toshiro Kamiya. Previously announced cast includes Kouki Uchiyama as Toshiro Kamiya and Minako Kotobuki as Yomiko Horai. The staff includes series composer Jin Tanaka of Oshi no Ko, character designer Robert Sato, sound director Yota Tsuruoka, and music composer Tatsuya Kato of Dr. Stone. The manga by Kasumi Yasuda has been serialized in Shogakukan's Big Comic Superior since November 2020, with 13 volumes released.

Director Atsuyuki Yukawa said the team was "conscious of making 'the crueler parts more beautiful.'" Animation producers Takahiro Iwata and Ryusuke Suzuki described the production in an interview video released alongside the second teaser, saying that if the two studios "can create a good chemical reaction, we can take this work to two or three times the effect through synergy."

Yukawa's interview marks his directorial debut. Robert Sato, in a comment, said he had considered character design "unrelated to my life" until Yukawa offered him the project. Sound director Yota Tsuruoka said the goal was a soundtrack built on "thoroughly stripping away ornamentation."

The manga has cumulative domestic and international print runs of roughly 800,000 copies, with volumes released in 17 countries and regions. It won the Best Suspense Award at the 2023 Japan Expo Awards and was nominated for France's Angoulême International Comics Festival. The manga ranked #12 in the male reader list of the 2023 edition of Takarajimasha's Kono Manga ga Sugoi! guidebook.

Viz Media licensed the manga in English, and Shogakukan Asia handles Southeast Asia. The story follows Toshiro Kamiya, a young man who chooses transfloration, the process of being transformed into a plant, and gains the ability to hear plants, leading him into work connecting humans with their transformed loved ones.

Synthesized by Yomimono from the 6 cited sources below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.

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