Kadokawa has announced that voice actor Tomokazu Sugita is joining the cast of the upcoming Detectives These Days Are Crazy! TV anime adaptation, where he’ll be in the role of three new characters.
A new visual and promo video were also released to commemorate the unofficial Japanese “holiday” Good Middle-Aged Man Day, and features members of “The Big Four of Yabee Ojisan” that includes protagonist Keiichiro Nagumo.
Sugita will be voicing three middle-aged men in the series: Nipple-Tasting Man, Cross Chest Hair Man, and the Man Who Likes Ropes.
He joins a main voice cast that stars:
- • Junichi Suwabe as Keiichiro Nagumo
- • Kana Hanazawa as Mashiro Nakanishi
- • Tomohiro Yamaguchi as Yu Asunaro
- • Aya Hirano as Hana Kazamaki
Rion Kujo (The Legendary Hero Is Dead!, Wanna be the Strongest in the World!) is directing the anime series. It is also known in Japan as Mattaku Saikin no Tantei Tokitara.
The original comedic mystery manga by Masakuni Igarashi began serialization in ASCII Media Works’ Dengeki Maoh magazine on April 27, 2016 and has released 15 tankobon volumes as of August 2024.
One Peace Books licensed the Detectives These Days Are Crazy! manga for English release, describing the synopsis as:
Behold, a great detective who thrills the world solving impossible cases in no time! His name? Keiichiro Nagumo. … But all of that was over a decade ago. Now he’s just your typical middle-aged dude. Nagumo is behind the times to the point that he doesn’t even know what a smartphone is. But out of the blue, he is confronted by a high school girl named Mashiro who shows up wanting to be his assistant. Witness the miracles a gender-gap detective duo can make!
Source: Detectives These Days Are Crazy! Official Anime Twitter
