The anime adaptation of Terra Formars is upping the game a bit this week as Warner Bros. Japan has released the first TV spot online. In addition to that, we know that the premiere date for the TV series is set for September 26th, 2014. All of this comes after a couple of waves of voice actor announcements that has helped to beef up the show as well as a look at the OVA series that’s being produced. The series, which Viz Media acquired the manga for back in October of 2013, is created by Yu Sasuga and Kenichi TAchibama. The anime adaptation was announced earlier this year which adapts the Annex 1 arc along with an OVA that will adapt the Bugs 2 arc that has gotten the green light. Originally starting publication back in 2011, it has nine volumes released so far.
The cast includes:
Yoshimasa Hosoya as Akari Hizamaru
Hidenobu Kiuchi as Shōkichi Komachi
Shizuka Itou as Michelle
Kaito Ishikawa as Marcos
KENN as Alex
Ai Kayano as Sheila
Daisuke Ono as Keiji Onizuka
Chiaki Takahashi as Kanako Sanjō
Aki Toyosaki as Yaeko Yanasegawa
Tomokazu Sugita as Ichirō Hiruma
Koji Yusa as Adolf Reinhard
Akira Ishida as Joseph
Unshou Ishizuka as Sylvester
Tetsuo Komura as Liu Yiwu
Ayane Sakura as Eva Frost
Kenji Akabane as Ivan Perepelkina
Romi Park as Elena Perepelkina
Toshiyuki Morikawa as Shichisei Hiruma
The anime adaptation is being produced at LIDEN FILMS with Hiroshi Hamasaki directing based on scripts by Shogo Ysukawa. Character designs are being done by Masanori Shino while Satoshi Kimura is doing secondary character design work.
Plot concept: With the space program attempting to travel to Mars, 21st century scientists were tasked with warming up the planet so that humans could survive on its surface. They came up with an efficient and cost effective plan of sending cockroaches and mold to the surface so that the mold would absorb the sunlight and the insect corpses would serve as a food source for the mold.
It is now the year 2577 and the first manned ship to Mars has landed on the planet and the six crew members are ready for their mission. But what they find are giant mutated humanoid cockroaches with incredible physical strength. The crew members are easily wiped out, but not before sending a transmission back to Earth. Now, humanity will send elite warriors to exterminate the mutated bugs and claim back Mars.
