"Takuma Terashima Was Always Fiddling With It": Voice Actors Get Hooked on the Robot's Craftsmanship! DANDIVINE TV Anime Advance Screening Report

Good Smile Company's new project, the Gattaishin Series. Its first entry, the all-new TV anime DANDIVINE, begins airing on October 7.

Ahead of the broadcast, an advance screening with a stage greeting by cast and staff was held on October 4 at United Cinemas Aqua City Odaiba in Tokyo. Takuma Terashima (Gekiha Shijima), Haruka Shiraishi (Akane Kusumi), Saya Aizawa (Kirei Shijima), Director Cao Yi, and producer Tetsuro Satomi took the stage.

After the screening ended, the cast, Director Cao, and producer Tetsuro Satomi were welcomed onto the stage with loud applause from fans. Aizawa livened up the venue by playing on a line from the show, "I declare," with the greeting, "Saya Aizawa, the voice of Kirei Shijima, I declare."

Satomi, the producer of the series from LIDENFILMS, also appeared on stage wearing a T-shirt from the live-action tokusatsu series Avataro Sentai Donbrothers.

He said he had previously teamed up with Toshiki Inoue (the screenwriter of DANDIVINE) on the TV anime Galaxy Angel, and that their relationship began there. He explained why he wore the T-shirt, saying, "Donbrothers was so entertaining that I asked him to do this one."

He also revealed what led him to entrust the scripts to Inoue: "There was talk that, to revive the kind of classic shonen robot anime we haven't seen in a long time, it would be best to go with someone who worked on the Brave Series 20 or 30 years ago. When I looked it up on Wikipedia, I found that few people knew much about that era, so I asked Inoue."

Asked by the MC whether Inoue had agreed to the offer without any trouble, he replied, "We went out for a meal together, and he gladly accepted." He went on to say of Inoue, "He's famous as a gourmet, and he only ever talks about food in his essays."

When he goes out to eat with such a gourmet as Inoue, he said, "The restaurant is already decided, and you're told to show up at a certain time on a certain day. Then it's more like, 'What comes out is already decided, so don't worry.'" The MC quipped, "That sounds just like Yuzan Kaibara from Oishinbo."