A ghost-busting anime just announced itself for July — and it didn’t whisper.
Summer anime season looked dead quiet. Everyone was sweating it out, wondering where the chaos went.
Then Kamui: He’s Behind You (Ushiro no Shomen Kamui-san) dropped a promo video and said: We’re here. We’re July. Deal with it.
That’s the kind of move you respect.
The Trailer Gives You Everything
The new PV confirmed the July release and gave us a taste of the ending theme — “SAY-BYE!!” by KOTOKO.
If you know KOTOKO, you already know the energy. She doesn’t do mild. She does your ears will forgive you but your brain won’t.
The trailer also showed what to expect:
- Supernatural comedy
- Questionable methods
- A man who believes the best way to handle ghosts is not holy water and sacred seals
The Voice Cast Is Stacked
The production committee assembled a lineup that reads like a who’s who
of anime veterans and rising stars.
- Kamui — Tomokazu Sugita (Gintoki in Gintama, Kyon in Haruhi Suzumiya) — basically every sarcastic man in anime history
- Shizuka — Riko Aono — emerging talent playing the girl who can see ghosts and deeply regrets it
- Oichi — MAO (Pecorine in Princess Connect! Re:Dive, Shion in That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime)
- Kyoko — Yuka Aisaka (Narberal Gamma in Overlord) — she already knows how to do dramatic
- Inagawa — Shiori Izawa (Nanachi in Made in Abyss) — if you cried during that show, prepare to cry again for entirely different reasons
Sugita alone could carry a series on the strength of his deadpan delivery. Pair him with this premise? That’s not casting. That’s weaponisation.
The Production Side
Directed by Takumi Tsukumo (veteran of Divergence Eve), animated by Zero-G and ZG-R, and produced under WWWave Corporation‘s Deregulate label.
If you know anything about how this industry works, you already know what Deregulate
means on a label. It means someone looked at the rating guidelines and said: We’ll be over here.
They’ve even got a dedicated sound director for the uncensored “Deregula version.” A separate version. With its own sound team.
That’s not a subtle hint. That’s a neon sign.
What’s It Actually About
Shizuka Mimitsuka is a normal high school student. Except she can see ghosts. All the time. Every day. Like a cursed group chat she never opted into.
To cope, she becomes the assistant to Kamui — a self-proclaimed psychic exorcist who handles the supernatural not with rituals or sacred artefacts, but with methods that are physically creative and morally flexible.
Think of it as a workplace comedy where the office is haunted, the boss is unhinged, and the dress code is negotiable.
It’s Ghostbusters if Peter Venkman had zero boundaries and Ray Stantz just went along with it because the pay was decent.
The Bigger Picture
The anime industry is loud right now. Everyone’s chasing the same trends — isekai, mecha, more isekai.
And then something like this slips through. A supernatural comedy with a cast this strong, a production this unapologetic, and a release window that says we don’t need your permission.
That’s not an accident. That’s someone reading the audience and realising: people are bored of safe. They want weird. They want specific.
And this show? It’s specific.
So Here’s What I’d Ask You to Sit With
If a show openly tells you it’s going to be ridiculous, uncensored, and completely off-script — do you trust it more than the ones pretending to be something they’re not?
And when an entire production label names itself Deregulate
— is that a warning or an invitation?
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