Daimajin Kanon
Overview
Misaki Kanon is a young woman who comes to the big city with dreams of becoming a singer. At first everything goes well, she falls in love and works towards her dream. But then her boyfriend betrays her and Kanon loses her faith in people and sight of her dream. Once upon a time, as a small child in a remote mountain village where the Daimajin rests, she sang the song of prayer. Now she has to regain her song to find herself and maybe save the world too. A mysterious man from the village is searching for her so that she may help him and his comrades when the time comes.
Top Cast
Yûka Rikuna
Kanon Mikazaki
Hiroyuki Nagato
Jūzō
Junko Minagawa
Buchinko (voice) / Narrator
Nozomi Sasaki
Tamakko (voice) / Kazahana (voice)
Cho
Tōbee (voice)
Natsuna Watanabe
Saki Uehara
Hidekazu Mashima
Taihei
Nao Nagasawa
Ikechiyo
Kiyoshi Kobayashi
Fukamatsu (voice)
Takashi Yamanaka
Tomosuke
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About Daimajin Kanon
Daimajin Kanon is a drama, sci-fi & fantasy series that first aired in 2010 exploring themes of kaiju, daimajin. Created by Shinichirou Inoue, it stars Yûka Rikuna, Hiroyuki Nagato, Junko Minagawa. Misaki Kanon is a young woman who comes to the big city with dreams of becoming a singer. At first everything goes well, she falls in love and works towards her dream. But then her boyfriend betrays her and Kanon loses her faith in people and sight of her dream. Once upon a time, as a small child in a remote mountain village where the Daimajin rests, she sang the song of prayer. Now she has to regain her song to find herself and maybe save the world too. A mysterious man from the village is searching for her so that she may help him and his comrades when the time comes.
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