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Ranpo Kitan: Game of Laplace Anime's 1st TV Ad Confirms July Debut
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The first television commercial for the Ranpo Kitan: Game of Laplace anime confirmed on Friday that the anime will begin airing in July. (The anime was previously announced as "premiering in July or later.")
Text: Original concept: Edogawa Rampo
Text: Director: Seiji Kishi
Text: Scripts: Makoto Uezu
Text: Animation production: Lerche
Text: "Destroy"
Text: "…I want to destroy"
Text: A project 50 years after Edogawa Rampo's passing
Text: Ranpo Kitan: Game of Laplace
Text: Starts airing in July 2015 on Fuji TV's "Noitamina" and other venues
The anime's official website also debuted a new key visual with the tagline, "Killed, by curiosity."
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The series is being produced for the 50th anniversary since Edogawa's passing. An earlier promotional video that unveiled the anime features the phrase, "The transient world is a dream. A night's dream is an illusion."
Seiji Kishi (Persona 4, Devil Survivor 2) is directing the anime at the studio Lerche (Re:␣Hamatora, Assassination Classroom). Makoto Uezu (Yumeria, Yuki Yuna Is a Hero) is writing the scripts.
Edogawa (born Taro Hirai) was a Japanese author whose work includes many mystery novels, such as Black Lizard, The Devil's CREST, and Dark Star. He passed away in 1965 at the age of 70.