While we usually see most simulcast pickup announcements happening just as the show is about to go live or a week or so beforehand, we’re getting more of them several months in advance now as there’s greater competition for the rights. The anime adaptation of the Nanbaka manga is the latest one to get an early pickup as Crunchyroll has grabbed the rights for it. They don’t have any regional availability for it yet as that will come closer to the launch this fall. The work is adapting Sho Futamata’s manga as it will be directed by Shinji Takamatsu, who has experience in comedy material with School Rumble and Gintama, and he’ll be working off of scripts from Mitsutaka Hirota.
The previously announced cast includes Yuuto Uemura as Jūgo, Tetsuya Kakihara as Uno, Airu Shiozaki as Rokku, Daiki Kobayashi as Niko, Tomokazu Seki as Hajime Sugoroku, Satomi Akesaka as Momoko Hyakushiki, Kenjirou Tsuda as Mitsuru Hitokoe, Kimeru as Kiji Mitsuba, Shouma Yamamoto as Kenshirou Yozakuro, Soichiro Hoshi as Samon Gokuu, Shunsuke Takeuchi as Yamato Godai, Keito Okuyama as Seitarou Tanabata, Toshiyuki Toyonaga as Tsukumo, Yuuki Fujiwara as Liang, Yuu Kobayashi as Upa, Genki Okawa as Qi, Yuto Adachi as Trois, Takao Mitsutomo as Honey, Yoshimasa Hosoya as Musashi and Eishin Fudemura as Hitoshi Sugoroku.
The manga began back in the PlayArt app back in 2013 and has two volumes to its name.
Plot concept: A super exciting action comedy starring the inmates and guards of the world’s most formidable prison; Uno, a man who likes to gamble with women; Rokku, a man who likes to get into fights; and Niko, a man who likes anime. Along with their warden Hajime, the high-tension action comedy story unfolds.
