The upcoming Digimon Universe: Appli Monsters anime project is coming this fall and the cast updates are hitting on a fairly regular basis. While we’ve had a few recently that were about the characters and their Buddy Appmon, the latest addition is for a trio of actors and just their human characters. Scheduled for an October 2016 debut on TV Tokyo, it’s being directed by Gou Koga based n the series composition from Youichi Katou. With Kenichi Oonuki on board for character designs, it’s being animated at Toei Animation.
The cast additions include:
- Makoto Furukawa as Yūjin Ōzora
- Mai Fuchigami as Aoi Kashiki
- Ryou Hirohashi as Watson
The previously announced cast includes:
- Yumi Uchiyama as Haru Shinkai
- Kokoro Kikuchi as Gatchmon
- Wataru Takagi as Appli Drive
- Umeka Shouji as Eri karan
- Motoko Kumai as Doamon
- Shiho Kokido as Asuka Torajiro
- Nao TAmura as Musimon
- Toshiyuki Toyonaga as Rei Katsura
- Daisuke Sakaguchi as Hackmon
Plot concept: Everyone in the world uses smartphone applications today. Unknown to them, creatures called Appli Monsters, also known as Appmon, reside in these applications. Appmon are artificially intelligent lifeforms with the ability to think and act for themselves, functioning in the space between the real and digital worlds and acting as intermediaries between man and system. However, lurking in the ocean of the Internet is a heinous artificially intelligent “last boss,” Leviathan, who uses a virus to control the Appmon and hack into the system in order to control the human world from the Internet.
Seventh-grader Haru Shinkai, acquires an Appli Drive and materializes Gatchmon, a search app, using an Appmon Chip. What is the mystery behind the Appli Drive, the presence of the mysterious field between the real and digital worlds where the Appmon reside, and the “App Gattai” which allows two Appmon to evolve into one? What exactly is Leviathan’s aim? The buddy story of the odd pairing of Haru and Gatchmon, who travel around the Internet in the present day, begins now!
[Source: ANN]