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Dog Days 3rd Season Commercial Features Kuberu, Rebecca

The official website for for Dog Days'' (Dog Days'' Double Dash), the third anime season based on Masaki Tsuzuki's (Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha) original work, began streaming its first character introduction commercial on Friday. The video introduces returning characters Kuberu and Rebecca.

The text in the video reads: Three heroes coming back to Flonyard for the third time. A new generation of heroes entertainment repeat! This time the stage is autumn.

The anime will take place two to three months after the second season during fall vacation. Shinku and his team will show up every episode, but the regular members on the show will change every episode. Director Junji Nishimura admitted that although there are already approximately 20 major characters, two or three more will be added. The series will go into depth about the details behind the world of Flonyard, as well as delving deeper into what a hero is.

Sumire Uesaka (Gonna be the Twin-Tail!!, Hōzuki no Reitetsu) will join the cast as the new character, Sharu. Returning cast members include:

Mamoru Miyano as Shinku Izumi
Yui Horie as Millhiore F. Biscotti
Nana Mizuki as Ricotta Elmar
Ami Koshimizu as Leonmitchelli Galette Des Rois
Mikako Takahashi as Rebecca Anderson
Aoi Yūki as Kuberu E. Pastillage
Ayana Taketatsu as Eclair Martinozzi

Junji Nishimura will direct the series at Seven Arcs Pictures. Osamu Sakata will design the characters, while Susumu Akizuki and Yui Isshiki will provide the music.

The anime will premiere next January.

The studio Seven Arcs (Asura Cryin', Sekirei, Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha) animated the first two seasons that premiered in 2011 and 2012. In the story, Princess Millhiore (Yui Horie) of the Biscotti Republic decides to summon a brave warrior from an alternate world to defend her country from the neighboring fiefdom of Galette. The "brave warrior" turns out to be a boy named Shinku (Mamoru Miyano) from modern-day Japan.

Thanks to Kagayaki for the embedded video.