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Divine Gate TV Anime's Promo Video Reveals January 8 Premiere

Marvelous began streaming a promotional video for its upcoming Divine Gate television anime series on Thursday. The video previews the anime's opening theme "One Me Two Hearts" by Hitorie, and reveals the show's premiere date of January 8.

The cast will host a preview screening of the first episode at TOHO Cinemas Shinjuku in Tokyo on December 26. In addition, the Marvelous company's booth will sell goods and hand out free shopper bags at Comic Market 89 from December 29 to December 31.

GungHo Online Entertainment and Acquire's original Divine Gate game is available for free download on iOS and Android. In the "panel RPG," players explore dungeons and solve puzzles to uncover panels and reveal treasure or monsters. The game has included more than 1,000 unique characters, including Steins;Gate characters as guest bosses.

The cast includes:

Tetsuya Kakihara as Akane, the boy who lights flames

Sōma Saitō as Aoto, the boy who controls water

Kanae Itō as Midori, the girl who tames wind

Ayana Taketatsu as Hikari, the girl who carries light

Sora Amamiya as Yukari, the girl who carries darkness

Hiroyuki Yoshino as Ginji, the boy who loves nothingness

Yūichi Nakamura as Arthur, the leader of "Kinghts of round"

Ami Koshimizu as Ifrit

Mai Fuchigami as Undine

Kana Asumi as Sylph

Yuri Yoshida as Metabon

Kōsuke Toriumi as Lancelot

Akira Ishida as Oz

Kōji Yusa as Loki

Noriyuki Abe (The Heroic Legend of Arslan, Bleach, GTO) is directing the anime at Studio Pierrot, and Natsuko Takahashi (My Love Story!!, Moyashimon, Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan) is in charge of series composition. Ichiro Uno (The World Is Still Beautiful) is designing the characters, and Takumi Ozawa (Aria the Scarlet Ammo, Okamikakushi - Masque of the Wolf) is composing the music. The group vistlip (Samurai Jam -Bakumatsu Rock-, Yona of the Dawn, Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's) is contributing the ending theme song "Contrust."