A new anime adaptation is on track for a 2024 TV premiere with the manga series Tasuketsu getting the nod. The announcement revealed the main staff and cast along with a promotional video and the main cast list. The series has Tatsuo Sato directing it and overseeing the scripts with Toru Hamazaki as the assistant director. Nami Hayashi is handling the character designs and Satelight is handling the animation production.
With the main production information set earlier this year, the show was recently set with a July 2nd, 2024 premiere date and it looks like we’re getting a lot of it. It’s now revealed to be a two-cour continuous show when it arrives. That news comes with a new key visual and some new characters being cast below.
The Japanese cast includes:
- Yūto Uemura as Saneatsu Narita
- Anna Nagase as Saaya Fujishiro
- Kazuki Ura as Ryūta Ichinose
- Kouki Ohsuzu as Kazuhiko Satō
- Shiori Mikami as Omi Jin
- Yuki Nakashima as Eren Kunashiri
- Daisuke Ono as Tōjūrō Yagihashi
- Jun Kasama as Ryōei Sudō
- Shūta Morishima as Sōtarō Shinozaki
- KENN as Ren Iruga
- Kenjiro Tsuda as Hisoka Midō
- Yuka Terasaki as Emperor
- Kotomi Aihara as Bōrinmaru Gokokuhōtenji
- Shiki Aoki as Rika Suzuki
- Kentarō Kumagai as Hayato Sōma
The newly added cast includes:
- Toshiki Kumagai as Raion Ono
- Satoshi Niwa as Shuji Nihonyanagi
- Sayumi Suzushiro as Hikari Ebina
- Kaito Ishikawa as Ko Kirishima
- Noeru Kawashima as Kai Kasai
- Yusuke Shirai as Seraphiel
- Yoko Hikasa as Maria Kisaragi
The ending theme song is “GAME OVER” as performed by issey.
The manga from Taiga Miyakawa began in 2013 and has been released in multiple parts over the years. The third part began in 2017 and is ongoing.
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Plot Concept: All of a sudden, people all over the world die because of a majority decision started by the “Emperor.” Survivors have to take a majority decision at 00:00 am, then the majority of people will have to die. The protagonist high school boy Saneatsu Narita and his schoolmates decide to defeat the Emperor.
Previous promos and visuals:
[Source: ANN]
