#deruru

The AnimeJapan stage about the new movie has concluded, and with it came the reveal of this movie’s original Keronians! On the left is Aruru and on the right is Deruru (romanizations tentative). Director Fukuda has said that they are siblings, and opening theme artist ano mentioned they will have an important role in the story. They were also originally designed by Mine Yoshizaki. That’s all we really know about them so far!

A few hours ago, the Keroro Anime Twitter account posted a short clip previewing what Movie 6 original characters Aruru and Deruru sound like for the first time!

Instead of revealing the voice actors outright just yet, they’ve asked Twitter users to guess who’s playing them!

I don’t have any particularly confident guesses of my own, though I will say my initial prediction—which is that this is how Fukuda would sneak in Tsuyoshi Muro and Jiro Sato—seems to be incorrect, since I don’t think either of them have high enough voices to match Deruru. One common guess I’m seeing in the replies/quotes is that it’s Shohei Osada and Shun Matsuo of comedian duo Chocolate Planet (ChocoPura). I think it’s a good guess; movie original characters usually have guest VAs, having a comedian duo is very on brand for Keroro, and both have had voice acting credits before. Assuming Osada is able to get his speaking voice a bit lower, you can sorta hear it:

By the way, here’s a translation of the lines in the preview clip:

Deruru: Awright! I can’t wait! We’re finally gettin’ to check out Pekopon?

Aruru: Don’t get carried away. Just keep your cool and get the mission done.

Director Fukuda also gave it a quote tweet where he invites users to leave their guesses and says “Aruru is very cool, while Deruru is very funny and cute.” I think people guessed their personalities pretty well from their reveal artwork!

my Orikero, finally made a more proper ref sheet for them.

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