Announced this summer as part of the fall anime season, we now have some new material for the upcoming Comet Lucifer anime series. The production now has Bandai Visual releaseing a three minute promo for the show that has been revealed to premiere n October 4th, 2015. it’ll get its start on Tokyo MX before rolling on to other networks and satellite services. Fans can get an early look at it if they visit one of thirty anime shops in Japan where they can get the official smartphone app for it and then download the entire episode beginning on September 19th until the day of the premiere.
The original series will be directed by Yasuhiyo Kikuchi based off of the script and composition by Yuuichi Nomura, who came up with the overall plan for the show. Atsushi Nakayama is serving as the series director while Yuuichi Takahashi is handling character design and chief animation director duties. The series is being animated at studio 8bit.
The series stars Yuusuke Kobayashi as Sougo Amagi, Ayaka Ohashi as Felia, Rie Takahashi as Kaon Lanchester, Takuma Terashima as Roman Valov, Ayaka Suwa as Otto Motou and Inori Minase as Mo Litica Tzetzes Ura,
Plot concept: Gift, a world covered in glittering blue crystals called gifdium. Sougo Amagi is a boy who lives in the town of Garden Indigo, which has prospered from the mining of these crystals. Sougo, whose hobby is collecting rare crystals, one day becomes involved in a dispute between classmates Kaon, Roman, and Otto. He wanders deep into the ruins of a mine and discovers an underground lake. There, Sougo meets a mysterious girl with blue hair and red eyes. Who is this girl, and what will their meeting bring? The door to an adventure opens with their newly formed bond.
That was a rather strange promotional video. It’s cool though. I can’t wait to watch this.