Dropkick on My Devil! Anime's Crowdfunding Campaign Funds New OVA Episode Within 35 Minutes

The official Twitter account for the Dropkick on My Devil! (Jashin-chan Dropkick) television anime announced on Wednesday that its crowdfunding project met its initial goal of 30 million yen (about US$215,000) within its first 35 minutes. The first 30 million yen funds a new original video anime (OVA) episode for the franchise. The OVA is scheduled for December 2025, and backers of certain tiers will receive the anime on Blu-ray Disc.

The campaign launched on Wednesday at 9:00 p.m. JST (7:00 a.m. EST). It will end on January 13, 2023. As of press time, the campaign has raised 39,251,698 yen (about US$282,000).

The overall goal of the franchise is to crowdfund enough episodes to make an entire fourth season titled Dropkick on My Devil! NEXT (Jashin-chan Dropkick NEXT). The staff explained that to make a one-cours (quarter of a year) anime, the production cost is about 300 million yen (about US$2.153 million). The staff explained that they do not have "the power to raise that kind of capital," and so the first goal is to launch a crowdfunding campaign for a new OVA episode. The goal is 30 million yen (about US$215,000) to produce one episode. The crowdfunding campaign will add one more episode for every additional 30 million yen raised, with plans on screening the episodes at events and streaming the episodes. A "Jashin-chan Festival" event is planned for May 4, 2023.

If the campaign (or campaigns) manages to raise enough money to produce 12 episodes, the episodes will be compiled and will be broadcast as a fourth season of the overall anime.

The first anime season premiered in July 2018. The anime is streaming exclusively on Amazon Prime Video inside and outside of Japan. Amazon Prime Video premiered the final bonus episode in October 2018. The second season, Dropkick on My Devil!! Dash, premiered in April 2020 with 11 episodes. Crunchyroll streamed all 11 episodes of the season.

Dropkick on My Devil! X, the third season of the anime, premiered on July 5. Crunchyroll streamed the series as it aired.

The third season of the anime also had a successful crowdfunding campaign that launched in September 2020 and ended in December 2020. 2,880 backers raised 36,181,238 yen (about US$351,100) for that campaign. A campaign backer pledged 1.1 million yen (about US$10,000) to coin the title of the season, and explained the title expresses affection for the hope that "Yurine and Jashin-chan will continue to cross each other and fight forever."

Yukiwo launched the original manga in Flex Comix's web magazine Comic Meteor in April 2012, and the series is ongoing.

Source: Dropkick on My Devil! anime's Twitter account and campaign