The previously announced Undead Unluck 1-hour anime special will feature an original story and a new UMA creature called Balance, which was created by original series author Yoshifumi Tozuka. The anime special will be released in winter 2025.
The details were confirmed during the Jump Festa ’25 event, where an illustration by Totsuka of the Balance UMA was also released.
The anime’s two cour first season aired for 24 total episodes. The first cour premiered on October 7, 2023 in Japan until December 23, 2023. The second cour aired from January 6, 2024 to March 23, 2024. The anime is streamed internationally on Hulu and Disney+.
Some of the first season’s main production staff consisted of Yuki Yase (Fire Force Season 1, Mekaku City Actors) as director, Hideyuki Morioka (Fire Force) as character designer and chief animation director, and Kenichiro Suehiro (Fire Force, The Eminence in Shadow) as music composer. David Production handled the animation production for the series.
Meanwhile, the main voice cast of Undead Unluck stars:
- • Moe Kahara as Fuuko Izumo
- • Yuichi Nakamura as Andy
- • Natsuki Hanae as Shen xiang
- • Mariya Ise as Juiz d’Arc
- • Ayumu Murase as Chikara Shigeno
- • Yuki Kaji as Rip Tristan
- • Ikumi Hasegawa as Latla Mirah
The anime is based on Tozuka’s action manga series, which began serialization in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump on January 20, 2020 and has released 23 tankobon volumes as of October 2024. A 24th volume will be released on January 4, 2025 and a 25th volume on February 4th 2025. The manga has also inspired the release of two novels in 2023, respectively.
Viz Media releases the Undead Unluck manga in English for North America, describing the main synopsis as:
What happens when an unlucky girl meets an undead guy? Pure chaos!
Tired of inadvertently killing people with her special ability Unluck, Fuuko Izumo sets out to end it all. But when she meets Andy, a man who longs for death but can’t die, she finds a reason to live — and he finds someone capable of giving him the death he’s been longing for.
