A new key visual and additional cast members have been revealed for the upcoming Tasuketsu TV anime series. The anime will begin broadcasting in Japan on July 2, 2024 will adapt the first two parts of the original manga in two consecutive cours.
The new visual showcases the anime’s main protagonist, as well as the new additional cast that includes:
- • Toshiki Kumagai as Raion Ono
- • Satoshi Niwa as Shuuji Nihon’yanagi
- • 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 new cast members join a main cast that stars:
- • Yuuto Uemura as Saneatsu Narita
- • Anna Nagase as Saya Fujishiro
- • Kazuki Ura as Ryuta Ichinose
- • Kouki Ohsuzu as Kazuhiko Sato
- • Shiori Mikami as Omi Jin
- • Yuki Nakashima as Eren Kunashiri
- • Daisuke Ono as Tojuro Yagihashi
- • Jun Kasama as Ryoei Sudo
- • Shuta Morishima as Sotaro Shinozaki
- • KENN as Ren Iruga
- • Kenjiro Tsuda as Hisoka Midō
- • Yuka Terasaki as the Emperor
- • Kotomi Aihara as Borinmaru Gokokuhotenji
- • Shiki Aoki as Rika Suzuki
- • Kentaro Kumagai as Hayato Soma
Tatsuo Sato (Helck director) is directing and writing the screenplay for the anime series, with Nami Hayashi (Helck co-sub character designer) as character designer, Tooru Hamazaki (Helck Episode 8 and 14 director) as assistant director, and R・O・N (Hypnosis Mic: Division Rap Battle – Rhyme Anima) as music composer. Satelight is in charge of the animation production. Crunchyroll will stream Tasuketsu worldwide, outside of Japan.
The original manga series is written and illustrated by Taiga Miyakawa, and was first serialized on Comics Mart’s GANMA website on September 1, 2013. Six tankobon volumes have been published by Micro Magazine as of December 2020. The series was republished under Comics Mart in December 2023, with the second volume releasing on January 26, 2024.
The manga has been split into three parts during its publication run. The first part ran from September 11, 2013 to November 28, 2014, while part two was released from April 30, 2015 to November 10, 2017 and part three has been serialized since November 17, 2017.
The story follows a group of five people in a world where a mysterious self-proclaimed “Emperor” gathers five people together through anonymous messages. The emperor forces them to participate in a game where they are first asked if they want to live or die. The game has only one rule: the majority of them will die.
Source: Tasuketsu Official Anime Twitter
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