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Aniplus HD Streams Kiznaiver Anime's English-Subtitled Character Intros

Regional anime channel Aniplus HD began streaming the English-subtitled character videos for Studio Trigger's Kiznaiver television anime on Wednesday. The videos introduce the anime's characters in pairs.

Kiznaiver premiered on the channel last Saturday, and new episodes air every Saturday at 11:00 p.m. in Jakarta and Bangkok, and 12:00 a.m. in Singapore, one hour after an episode airs in Japan.

Aniplus HD describes the series:

The story takes place in Sugomori, a city built upon reclaimed land that once prospered as a futuristic city. One high school boy living there, Agata Katsuhira, is somehow unable to feel any pain. One day just before the start of summer break, Katsuhira is called by a mysterious girl named Sonozaki Noriko and chosen to become one of a group of people who share one another's pain: a "Kiznaiver." Several of his classmates have also been chosen as part of this group, but they're all people from different circles who normally wouldn't associate with each other. Sonozaki calls this an experiment for the purpose of guiding their battle-ridden world toward peace. After learning all this, many trials befall them one after another. The story of the summer experienced by these students chosen to bear one another's pain begins here!

The anime's cast includes:

• Yuuki Kaji (Attack on Titan's Eren Jaeger) as Katsuhira Agata
• Hibiku Yamamura (Seraph of the End's Asuramaru) as Noriko Sonozaki
• Yuka Terasaki (Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans' Kudelia) as Chidori Takashiro
• Tomoaki Maeno (Yowamushi Pedal's Juichi Fukutomi) as Hajime Tenga
• Misaki Kuno (Durarara!!×2's Akane Awakusu) as Nico Niyama
• Nobunaga Shimazaki (Free! - Iwatobi Swim Club's Haruka Nanase) as Tsuguhito Yuta
• Rina Satou (Sailor Moon Crystal's Sailor Mars) as Honoka Maki
• Kōtarō Nishiyama (Cute High Earth Defense Club LOVE!'s Atsushi Kinugawa) as Yoshiharu Hisomu

Studio Trigger and Mari Okada are credited with the show's original work. Hiroshi Kobayashi (Rage of Bahamut: Genesis assistant director, Kill la Kill episode director) made his directorial debut with the anime at Studio Trigger, and Mari Okada (Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans, anohana, The Anthem of the Heart) is both writing and overseeing the scripts. Shirow Miwa (Dogs: Bullets & Carnage, supercell illustrator) is drawing the original character designs, while Mai Yoneyama (Japan Animator Expo "Hill Climb Girl," Kill la Kill animation director) is adapting those character designs for animation. Yuuki Hayashi (Haikyu!!, Robotics;Notes, Death Parade) is composing the show's music.