A new key visual has been released for the upcoming anime Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer. The series will premiere sometime this summer in July 2022.
The visual highlights the anime’s two main characters in the center, with the supporting cast spotlighted as well. News of the highly anticipated anime adaptation was first announced in January. Information about the main cast and production staff was released a few months later in March.
Junya Enoki is voicing the main protagonist Yuuhi Amamiya and Naomi Ohzora is voicing the heroine Samidare Asahina. Kenjirou Tsuda voices Noi Crezant while Azusa Tadokoro is playing Hisame Asahina.
Nobuaki Nakanishi (Mangirl!) is directing the anime series and Yuuichirou Momose (So I’m a Spider, So What?) is the screenwriter. Original manga creator Satoshi Mizukami is helping Momose write the series’ scripts.
The original Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer manga series ran from 2005 to 2010. 10 tankoubon volumes have been released in total under Shounen Gahosha’s Young King Comics label.
Seven Seas Entertainment, which publishes the manga in North America, describes the story as:
Everything about college student Amamiya Yuuhi is average: grades, looks and his blasé outlook on life. So what happens when he awakens one day to a talking lizard, who informs him that there is a gigantic hammer in outer space, poised to split the Earth into pieces, and requests his allegiance in the fight against the forces of evil? Pretend it never happened! Unfortunately for Yuuhi, a little bit of coercion in the form of a super-powered princess prevents him from returning to his mediocre life-as-usual.
In the adventure of his lifetime, Yuuhi will join forces with the unpredictable princess and seek out a motley crew of companions to fight back against an evil mage and his horrifyingly powerful homunculus before the Biscuit Hammer destroys the planet!
Source: Biscuit Hammer Official Twitter