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Trickster TV Anime's 3rd Promo Video Previews Gackt's Opening Song

Bandai Visual began streaming the third promotional video for the Trickster - Edogawa Rampo 'Shōnen Tantei-dan' Yori (Trickster - From Rampo Edogawa's "The Boy Detectives Club") television anime on Saturday. This latest video had debuted during the early premiere showing of the first episode on Friday. It features the opening theme song "Kimi Dake no Boku de Iru" (Since There's Just You in Me) by musician Gackt.

The anime's website describes the story:

It is the 2030s. The Boy Detectives Club gathers under Kogorō Akechi, the mysterious detective. The group solves cases great and small using their unique skills. One day, a member of the club, Kensuke Hanazaki, meets the boy Yoshio Kobayashi. Kobayashi's body cannot die due to the effects of the "Unidentifiable Mist," but he yearns for death, and shirks from contact with other people. Taking an interest in him, Hanazaki invites him to join the Boy Detectives Club. Their meeting is connected to the fate tying together Kogorō Akechi, and the era's greatest villain, the Fiend With Twenty Faces.

The video introduces the two main characters through their fateful encounter (Hanazaki: "Do you wanna join the Boy Detectives Club? I swear I'll kill you one day." Kobayashi: "I just want to die."), along with the other characters (pictured below in the order they are introduced in the video):

Daiki Yamashita as Yoshio Kobayashi, a boy retrieved from the Unidentifiable Mist who possesses an immortal body. Because he knows the origins of his immortality involved hurting many people, he harbors a strong desire to commit suicide. He is often rebellious, uncooperative, and rude.

Ryota Ohsaka as Kensuke Hanazaki, a boy who, in his admiration of Akechi, has wanted to join the Boy Detectives Club since he was eight years old. Instead of mulling things over in his head, he is the type to move as his body tells him to naturally before thinking.

Yuichiro Umehara as Ryō Inoue, the former leader of the Boy Detectives Club, before leaving the position altogether and handing it to Hanazaki. He is smart, and even now continues to operate in the team's control tower.

Ibuki Kido as Makoto Noro, the sole female member of the Boy Detectives Club, and a technically-minded computer expert. She never leaves the house, so she communicates by mic, camera, and her owl Pippo-chan.

Takuya Masumoto as Masaharu Shōta, a former Boy Detectives Club member, and currently a member of the tennis club, gardening club, and judo club of Rurino Academy. He is a straightforward and comfortable person. After school and on holidays, he helps out at Shōta Flower Shop, his household shop.

Yoshitaka Yamaya as Tasuku Yamane, a member of the scientific experiment club whom Ōtomo always teases. He secretly admires Inoue. He is respectful and polite when speaking.

Makoto Furukawa as Tomohisa Ōtomo, the designer of the Boy Detectives Club's "seven tools," and the founder and member of his school's scientific experiment club. In Rurino Academy, which Hanazaki also attends, he works with his underclassman Yamane in the school's science lab. He is handsome, popular with girls, and has a free-wheeling personality.

Azusa Tadokoro as Nao Nakamura, a female detective in the police's public safety general affairs division who often visits Akechi's detective agency. She often makes calls to Akechi for help in solving cases.

Daisuke Ono as Kogorō Akechi, the detective who heads the Akechi detective agency. He is lazy and often gives off an air of being a failure. His mental and physical abilities are exceptional, and he gives the Boy Detectives Club free rein. He has a history of being a former mercenary.

Gackt as the Fiend With Twenty Faces, a criminal and master of disguise whose age, gender, and nationality are unknown. Few have seen the face beneath the mask. The Fiend With Twenty Faces is behind events that provoke Akechi, but does not personally kill people.

Masahiro Mukai (Hyperdimension Neptunia, episode director in Terror in Resonance, Blood Blockade Battlefront) is directing the anime at TMS Entertainment and Shin-Ei Animation. Erika Yoshida (Tiger & Bunny: The Comic) is supervising and writing the series' scripts. Peach-Pit (Di Gi Charat, Rozen Maiden, Shugo Chara!) is drawing the original character designs, and Shinya Yamada (key animation in Attack on Titan, Your Lie in April, Samurai Champloo) is adapting those character designs for animation. Yuuki Hayashi (Death Parade, My Hero Academia, Kiznaiver) is composing the music. Azusa Tadokoro is performing the anime's ending theme song "1Hope Sniper."

The anime will premiere on Tokyo MX on October 3 at 25:05 p.m. (effectively 1:05 a.m. on October 4), on Yomiuri TV on October 3 at 25:59 p.m. (1:59 a.m. October 4), and on BS11 on October 4 at 25:30 (1:30 a.m. October 5). The anime's official website notes that, aside from the anime and manga, the project will also include a stage play and a live-action film. The site also noted on Friday that the first of eight monthly three-episode Blu-ray Disc volumes will ship on January 27.

Shōnen Tantei-dan (The Boy Detectives Club) describes both the 1937 novel by renowned Japanese mystery novelist Edogawa Rampo, and the title of a series of Edogawa novels, of which the aforementioned titular novel is the second in the series (the first was The Fiend With Twenty Faces). The character of Yoshio Kobayashi appears in many of the novels as the leader of the club, and apprentice of Japan's greatest detective, Kogorō Akechi. Edogawa's novels have inspired numerous live-action and animated adaptations, and elements and references to his stories appear in even more works. 2015's Rampo Kitan: Game of Laplace television anime adapted many of Edogawa's stories.