As part of the 25th-anniversary celebration of Dengeki, the upcoming anime adaptation of the Hakata Pig Bone Ramen novel series has some new details. We knew it was part of the winter 2018 season previously and now have a firm date of January 12th, 2018 with a new promotional video arriving. While it’s free of dialogue we do get a taste of the opening theme song that definitely sets the mood. Kenji Yasuda is directing it based on the series composition by Shogo Yasukawa. Hideki Inoue is on board for the character designs and Satelight will be animating it.
The Japanese cast includes:
- Daisuke Ono as Zenji Banba
- Yuuki Kaji as Lin Xianming
- Yūsuke Kobayashi as Saitoh
- Yūichi Nakamura as Shunsuke Saruwatari
- Daisuke Namikawa as Jirō
- Kensho Ono as Enokida
- Aoi Yūki as Misaki
- Tomoaki Maeno as José Martínez
- Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Yamato
- Daisuke Hirakawa as Saeki
- Kenji Hamada as Shigematsu
- Kousei Hirota as Genzō Gohda
- Masaya Matsukaze as Kyoya Nitta
The series comes from writer Chiaki Kisaki with artwork by Hako Ichiiro with seven volumes out as of the end of this month. A manga adaptation kicked off last summer from Kisara Akino with it set to complete with the second volume out last month.
Plot Concept: In a city known as Fukuoka, crime exists in the underworld from a seemingly peaceful surface. In the Hataka ward of the city, there are various individuals with special talent that consists of professional killers, detectives, informants, and professional revenge seekers. Furthermore, according to an urban legend, an individual known as “killer of professional killers” has shown up in the city.
