The staff for the television anime of Aito Aoyagi‘s Akazukin, Tabi no Tochū de Shitai to Deau (Red Riding Hood: A Detective Story, or literally Little Red Riding Hood Encounters a Dead Body During Her Journey.) novel revealed on Monday the anime’s first trailer, first key visual, additional cast and staff members, and January 2027 debut.
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The newly announced cast members are (image above from top left to bottom right):
- Takuya Satō as Jill
- Atsushi Tamaru as Antonio
- Motoko Kumai as Rodrigo
- Kōtarō Nishiyama as Paulo
- Sakiko Uran as Oyayubi-hime (Thumbelina)
- Ryōko Shiraishi as Narrator
Additional staff members include:
- Main Animator: Ryōta Tamura, Satoru Kiyomaru, Shunsuke Masuda, Yasuhiro Iwabuchi
- Prop Design: Jazzline Monteron
- Trick Design: Yoshinori Iwanaga
- Art: TOTONYAN
- Art Setting: Hiroshi Katō, Yuichi Asami
- Color Design Support: Yumi Toriyama
- Visual Effects: Tomomi Ishihara
- Sound Director: Itsurō Kawasaki
- Music: Jun Ichikawa
- Music Production: Pony Canyon
The anime will debut in January 2027 on the Tokyo MX, BS NTV, and Yomiuri TV channels. Crunchyroll also confirmed that it will stream the anime worldwide excluding Asia.
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The anime will have its world premiere at New York Comic Con on October 9.
Pony Canyon describes the story:
On the outskirts of town lived a girl called “Red Riding Hood.”
One day, she found herself forced to embark on a journey for a certain purpose.
Strangely enough, however, she kept getting swept up in incident after incident along the way.
Using her innate curiosity and clever mind, Red Riding Hood set about solving each mystery.“Why is your criminal plan so sloppy?”
This is the world of a fairy tale everyone knows—.
The anime will star Yume Miyamoto as Red Riding Hood, and Akira Sekine as Pinocchio.
Itsurō Kawasaki (Baban Baban Ban Vampire, Cardfight!! Vanguard, Lady Jewelpet) is directing the anime at Benten Film, and is also writing the script. Manami Minakata (Baban Baban Ban Vampire sub-character designer, Grendizer U episode animation director) and Yūko Yahiro (Aharen-san wa Hakarenai, Kaguya-sama: Love is War Season 2) are designing the characters. Izumi Hoki (Detective Conan: Zero’s Tea Time, MAO) and Hiroshi Katō (2003 Astro Boy, Barakamon) are the art directors, Tomoe Yoshimura (The Heike Story, Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt) is in charge of color setting, Rieko Koike (Baban Baban Ban Vampire, Diabolik Lovers) is the compositing director of photography, and Daisuke Hiraki (Backflip!!, Bocchi the Rock!) is the editor.
Futabasha published Aoyagi’s novel in August 2020.
Tanakanoka launched the novel’s manga adaptation in Futabasha‘s Monthly Action magazine in January 2023, where it serialized until the magazine ceased publication in February 2024. The manga then moved to Futabasha‘s Web Action manga website in April 2024. The manga ended with its fourth compiled book volume, which shipped in June 2025.
The novel also inspired a live-action movie adaptation that streamed worldwide on Netflix in 2023. Kanna Hashimoto starred in the movie as Little Red Riding Hood.
Sources: Red Riding Hood: A Detective Story anime’s website, Comic Natalie
