Migi & Dali

Migi & Dali (ミギとダリ, Migi to Dari) is a Japanese manga series by Nami Sano. It was serialized in Enterbrain's seinen manga magazine Harta from July 2017 to November 2021 and was collected in seven tankōbon volumes. It was Sano's final work before she died of cancer in 2023. An anime television series adaptation by Geek Toys and CompTown premiered in October 2023.

Migi & Dali
Cover of Migi & Dali volume 1 by Enterbrain
ミギとダリ
(Migi to Dari)
GenreMystery[1]
Manga
Written byNami Sano
Published byEnterbrain
MagazineHarta
DemographicSeinen
Original runJuly 15, 2017 – November 15, 2021
Volumes7
Anime television series
Directed byMankyū
Written byMankyū
Music byHiroko Sebu
Studio
Licensed byCrunchyroll
Original networkAT-X, Tokyo MX, BS11
Original run October 2, 2023 – present
Episodes4

Characters
Migi (ミギ)
Voiced by: Shun Horie[2]
Together with his brother Dali, he was adopted by the Sonoyama family. He is the more emotional of the twins and unlike his more serious and manipulative twin brother Dali, he is gentle and sometimes tends to get distracted from the goal. He has a richer, smoother expression. His dominant hand is his right.
Dali (ダリ, Dari)
Voiced by: Ayumu Murase[2]
Together with his brother Migi, he was adopted by the Sonoyama family. He is the more rational of the twins and calmly weighs things up with his brother's feelings, but as the elder twin there are times when he is tough in front of Migi. His dominant hand is his left.
Shunpei Akiyama (秋山 俊平, Akiyama Shunpei)
Voiced by: Shintarō Asanuma[3]
Maruta Tsutsumi (堤 丸太, Tsutsumi Maruta)
Voiced by: Shunsuke Takeuchi[3]
Eiji Ichijō (一条 瑛二, Ichijō Eiji)
Voiced by: Kengo Kawanishi[3]
Yōko Sonoyama (園山 洋子, Sonoyama Yōko)
Voiced by: Kotono Mitsuishi[4]
Osamu Sonoyama (園山 修, Sonoyama Osamu)
Voiced by: Takashi Matsuyama[4]
Metry (メトリー, Metorī)
Voiced by: Sumire Morohoshi[4]
Micchan (みっちゃん)
Voiced by: Kimiko Saitō[4]
Reiko Ichijō (一条 怜子, Ichijō Reiko)
Voiced by: Romi Park[4]
Akira Ichijō (一条 瑛, Ichijō Akira)
Voiced by: Tokuyoshi Kawashima[4]
Karen Ichijō (一条 華怜, Ichijō Karen)
Voiced by: Akira Sekine[4]

Media

Manga

Migi & Dali is written and illustrated by Nami Sano. It was serialized in Enterbrain's Harta manga magazine from July 2017 to November 2021 and was collected in seven tankōbon volumes.[5][6]

No. Japanese release date Japanese ISBN
1 May 15, 2018[7]978-4-04-734836-3
2 September 15, 2018[8]978-4-04-735350-3
3 August 10, 2019[9]978-4-04-735623-8
4 February 15, 2020[10]978-4-04-736022-8
5 October 15, 2020[11]978-4-04-736112-6
6 July 15, 2021[12]978-4-04-736634-3
7 December 15, 2021[13]978-4-04-736846-0

Anime

On December 13, 2021, an anime adaptation was announced.[1] It was later revealed to be a television series produced by Geek Toys and CompTown, and directed and written by Mankyū, with Mamoru Enomoto serving as assistant director, Ayumi Nishibata designing the characters, and Hiroko Sebu composing the music.[14][15] It premiered on October 2, 2023, on AT-X and other networks.[16][4] Soraru and Rib will perform the opening theme song "Yūmaga Doki" (ユウマガドキ), while Nulbarich will perform the ending theme song "Skyline".[17][18] Crunchyroll licensed the series.[19] Plus Media Networks Asia has licensed the series in Southeast Asia.[20]

Episodes
No.Title [21]Directed by [lower-alpha 1]Written by [lower-alpha 1]Storyboarded by [lower-alpha 1]Original air date 
1"Migi and Dali"
Transcription: "Migi to Dali" (Japanese: ミギとダリ)		TBATBATBAOctober 2, 2023 (2023-10-02)
A woman is lying bleeding on the ground while holding a snowflake button during christmas times. December 1989, the elderly childless couple Osamu and Yoko Sonoyama visit an orphanage and wants to adopt a child, they meet a boy named Hitori and is charmed by his looks and good-hearted nature. February 1990, Hitori is adopted by the Sonoyamas. However, what they don't know is that Hitori has an identical twin brother and their real names is Migi and Dali. They pretend to be one person while switching places without the couple noticing. Migi and Dali grants the couple wishes they never got by baking a cherry pie and riding on the shoulders. Migi and Dali talk about they have won the Sonoyamas over and everything is going as they wanted. Going back in time at the orphanage, Migi and Dali hear about a couple from Origon Village and they want to adopt only one. They possess the snowflake button and plan to be one person and everything the couple saw was stage to give them a strong impression.
2"Welcome Party"
Transcription: "Werukamu Pātī" (Japanese: ウェルカムパーティー)		TBATBATBAOctober 9, 2023 (2023-10-09)
1983, young Migi and Dali are top off a cliff in Origon Village while holding the snowflake button. The Sonoyamas are planning something for Hitori, Migi and Dali talk they came to this home as base to investigate the people of Origon Village. While the couple is out they look around the house, they find strange things and the couple are hiding something from them they believe the couple is tricking them and decides to kill them during the welcome party. During the party they meet the Ichijo Family; the parents Akira and Reiko and the children Eiji and Karen, Mrs. Tsutsumi and her grandson Maruta, and Shunpei Akiyama. But Migi and Dali discover what the couple is hiding was a bike in a gift and the things they found was misunderstandings, during the evening Migi and Dali go to visit their mother. It is revealed seven years ago they and their mother lived in Origon Village, their mother disappeared one night and they went looking for her only to find her dead while holding the snowflake button they have now. They didn't understand back then that their mother was murdered by someone in Origon Village, the reason they returned back as adopted was to find and kill the murderer.
3"Let's Make Friends"
Transcription: "Tomodachi o Tsukurō" (Japanese: ともだちをつくろう)		TBATBATBAOctober 16, 2023 (2023-10-16)
Migi and Dali's earliest memory they were under a bed and making doodles on a wallpaper, back then in a room somewhere in a house somewhere they lived with their mother in hiding. December 1982, they one day left that place and their mother deeply loved Origon Village, after they found their mother dead they buried her and the snowflake button is their one lead. To find the one who killed their mother they begin with finding the room with the wallpaper they put doodles as might tell their origin and in order to easily enter houses they have to make friends with people so they get invited over. During the boy scouts they became friends with the lonely Akiyama and is invited over, Dali keeps Akiyama distracted while Migi searches the house, it has similar wallpaper but it's not the wallpaper they looking for so the house is not the one. They are invited by Maruta so this time Migi distracts Maruta while Dali searches the house, Maruta turns out to be a horrible friend and the house is not either because it has none of the wallpapers. Dali sees Maruta treats Migi horribly and says cruel things, Dali switches places and teaches Maruta a lesson but is stopped by Migi. They see someone talking to the Sonoyamas and is the maid Mrs. Mitsuyama, Mrs. Mitsuyama says to call her Micchan.

Notes
  1. Information is taken from the ending credits of each episode.

References
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