The anime adaptation with the 86 – EIGHTY-SIX novels is underway and the lead-up to it must have been getting a good response as a new spinoff is in the works. Comic Alive has its June issue being listed online and that has revealed that a prequel manga to Asato Asato’s novel series is coming called 86 -Fragmental Neoteny-. It’s generally a good sign when the publisher provides more support for your main novel series not just with an anime but a prequel manga as well. No details regarding it are available in terms of story, or who is illustrating it yet.
Toshimasa Ishii is set to direct based on the series composition by Toshiya One. Tetsuya Kawakami is on board with character designs and animation production is being done by A-1 Pictures.
The initial casting has revealed Shōya Chiba as Shinei Nōzen and Ikumi Hasegawa as Vladilena Mirizé. The updated cast includes eighteen more reveals with:
- Ikumi Hasegawa as Vladilena Milizé
- Shōya Chiba as Shinei Nōzen
- Seiichirō Yamashita as Raiden Shuga
- Natsumi Fujiwara as Theoto Rikka
- Saori Hayami as Anju Emma
- Sayumi Suzushiro as Kurena Kukumila
- Haruka Shiraishi as Kaie Tanya
- Haruki Ishiya as Daiya Irma
- Daiki Yamashita as Haruto Keats
- Taishi Murata as Kujo Niko
- Shinei Ueki as Rui Kino
- Masamu Ono as Chise Osen
- Katsumi Fukuhara as Toma Sobi
- Taito Ban as Tozan Sasha
- Shizuka Ishigami as Rekka Rin
- Yuka Nukui as Mikuri Kairo
- Mayuko Kazama as Maina Atomika
- Riho Sugiyama as Henrietta Penrose
- Satoshi Mikami as Jerome Carlstahl
- Taiten Kusunoki as Reff Adleheit
Created by Asato Asato with illustrations by Shirabi, the light novel series has five volumes in Japan and is being released in English by Yen Press.
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Plot Concept: The Republic of San Magnolia has long been under attack from the neighboring Giadian Empire’s army of unmanned drones known as the Legion. After years of painstaking research, the Republic finally developed autonomous drones of their own, turning the one-sided struggle into a war without casualties—or at least, that’s what the government claims.
In truth, there is no such thing as a bloodless war. Beyond the fortified walls protecting the eighty-five Republic territories lies the “nonexistent” Eighty-Sixth Sector. The young men and women of this forsaken land are branded the Eighty-Six and, stripped of their humanity, pilot the “unmanned” weapons into battle…
