The opening film of the trilogy with Ajin: Demi-Human – Compel landed last year and we previously knew that second feature, Collision, would be coming out in May 2016. The official site has now updated with a bit more information by revealing a May 6th, 2016 release date – one that times out well as the eighth volume of the manga arrives in Japan on May 6th, 2016. That release will have an anime bundled DVD release edition as well.
Additionally, the site has updated to reveal that the third film, Ajin: Demi-Human – Crash, will arrive on September 23rd, 2016, bringing th trilogy to a close.
The film is being directed by Hiroyuki Seshita as the general director while Hiroaki Ando is serving as the main director, working off of the script by Hiroshi Seko. Yuki Moriyama is on board as the character designer for it while Polygon Pictures is handling the animation production and TOHO will be distributing it.
The cast announced so far includes Mamoru Miyano as Kei Nagai, Yoshimasa Hosoya as Kaito, Houchu Ohtsuka as Satō, Takahiro Sakurai as Tosaki, Mikako Komatsu as Izumi Shimomura, Daisuke Hirakawa as Kōji Tanaka, Aya Suzaki as Eriko Nagai, Hiroyuki Kinoshita as Ikuya Ogura and Jun Fukuyama as Kou Nakano.
The manga has been doing well in Japan since it launched in 2012 and it’s gotten some solid acclaim here since Vertical began publishing it. The timing works well for them too as the fifth volume of the manga came out earlier this week, bringing them largely up to date. Crunchyroll is handling the digital presentation of the series, making it available to a large number of fans.
Plot concept: High school student Kei Nagai is struck dead in a grizzly traffic accident, but immediately revives to learn that he may not be like every other human. Instead, he may be a mysterious almost immortal being granted not only the powers of rejuvination but the abilities to see super-natural beings. Scared, he runs away, and is aided in his escape from society by his friend. Unfortunately for Kei, the manhunt is on and he will soon be caught within a conflict between mankind and others like him as they prepare to fight a new war based on terror.
