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Goro Taniguchi's Estab-Life TV Anime Reveals Main Cast in Teaser
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The official website for the Estab-Life original anime project by Goro Taniguchi (Code Geass, Planetes, Back Arrow) posted a teaser promotional video for the project's television anime on Thursday. The video debuts the character voices for the first time, and thus announces the main cast:
The main cast members are (in the order they appear in the teaser above):
- Tomomi Mineuchi as Ekua, the Nigashiya leader
- Rie Takahashi as Feresu, the superbly athletic, quick-firing "gun wizard"
- Maria Naganawa as Maruteese, a slime-human
- Shō Hayami as Aruga, an old fogey of an AI robot
- Shinichirō Miki as Urura, a wolfman who says nothing but "wan" (woof)
The project will have a television anime, smartphone game, and anime film, which have the themes of "escape," "records," and "variant," respectively. (The English subtitle for Estab-Life is "Establishment in Life.")
The story is set in the distant future when the world population has begun to shrink after reaching its peak. The "Supernatural Renovation Project" splits Tokyo with towering walls into several Cluster neighborhoods, each with its own unique genetically modified populations, governed by artificial intelligence.
Most people live their lives in their own unique Clusters, blissfully unconcerned with life beyond. However, there are some who seek to escape to the other Clusters. An outfit called Nigashiya helps those who wish to escape.
Taniguchi is credited for the original concept and creative supervision of the Estab-Life: Great Escape (working title) television anime, and SSF is credited with the original story. Hiroyuki Hashimoto (Is the order a rabbit?, Slow Start) is directing the anime at Polygon Pictures, and Shoji Gatoh (Full Metal Panic!, Hyou-ka, Cop Craft) is supervising and writing the scripts.
Yūsuke Kozaki (No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle, Fire Emblem Awakening, Bubuki Buranki) drafted the original character designs, and INEI's Kenichiro Tomiyasu (Harlock: Space Pirate, Human Lost, Night Head 2041, Resident Evil: Damnation) drafted the concept art. Yoshiaki Fujisawa (No Game, No Life Zero, A Place Further Than the Universe, Revue Starlight) is composing the music. Slow Curve developed and produced the project.
The television anime will premiere this April on the +Ultra anime programming block on Fuji TV and its affiliates, and Crunchyroll will stream the anime outside Asia.
Square Enix is developing the Estab-Life: Unity Memories smartphone game. Taniguchi is also credited for the original concept and creative supervision of the game, and SSF likewise is credited with the original story.
Taniguchi is also personally directing and writing Eiga Estab-Life: Revengers' Road (Estab-Life the Movie: Revengers' Road), in addition to conceiving the original concept. SSF is again credited with the original story, and Polygon Pictures is producing the animation.
Source: Comic Natalie
