Sentai Filmworks has added another feather to their cap for shows acquired as part of the fall 2015 anime season as they now have the rights to The Perfect Insider. The distributor will be bringing it to a variety of streaming services in the near future and have plans for a home video release down the line as well.
This series is based on the original work by Hiroshi Mori and will be directed by Mamoru Kanbe based on scripts by Toshiya Oono. It’ll be animated at A-1 Pictures. Character designs are being done by Inio Asano while Kenji Kawai will be handling the music.
The cast includes Yasuyuki Kase as Sōhei Saikawa, Atsumi Tanezaki as Moe Nishinosono, Ibuki Kido as Shiki Magata, Shunsuke Sakuya as Seiji Shindō, Sayaka Kobayashi as Yumiko Shindō, Tatsuhisa Suzuki as Yukihiro Yamane, Bin Sasaki as Tomihiko Yuminaga, Kentarou Itou as Chikara Mizutani, Yōko Hikasa as Ayako Shimada, Hiroshi Shimozaki as Toshiki Mochiduki, Atsushi Imaruoka as Satoshi Hasebe, Yuko Kaida as Miki Magata, Houko Kuwashima as Momoko Kunieda, Taishi Murata as Fukashi Hamanaka, Yui Horie as Setsuko Gidō and Katsumi Chou as Suwano.
Plot concept: The story of the original novel revolves around Souhei Saikawa, a member of the Saikawa Research Lab. On a vacation held for the lab, he meets Moe Nishinosono, the daughter of his mentor, who joins the group on their vacation despite not being a part of the lab. After meeting each other, the two end up finding a corpse. The two work together to solve the mysteries of what becomes a serial murder case.
