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Tokyo ESP Anime's 1st TV Ad Streamed

The official website for the Tokyo ESP anime began streaming an ad for the series on Friday.

Hajime Segawa's original science fantasy manga begins with Rinka (Ibuki Kido), an extremely poor high school girl who lives with just her father in modern Tokyo. One day, she is going home from school when she chases a "flying penguin" to the top of New Tokyo Tower — only to have "fish swimming in the air" suddenly appear before her. One of the fish goes through Rinka and gives her extraordinary powers beyond those of normal humans, particularly the ability to slip through solid objects.

The singer Faylan will perform the opening theme song "Tokyo Zero Hearts," while the group Yousei Teikoku will perform the ending theme song, "Guze Άργυρóϛ."

The cast includes:

Ibuki Kido as Rinka Urushiba
Keisuke Koumoto as Kyōtarō Azuma
Sachika Misawa as Minami Azuma
Azusa Tadokoro as Murasaki Edoyama
Megumi Ogata as Ayumu Ohzora
Mai Aizawa as Kobushi Kuroi ("Black Fist")
Tetsu Inada as Rindō Urushiba
Kaoru Mizuhara as Peggi
Yoshihisa Kawahara as Professor
Hiromi Konno as Kozuki Kuroi
Yoshito Yasuhara as Nabeshima
Kazuhiko Inoue as Elder Yōdani
Jouji Nakata as Committee Head Edoyama
Tessho Genda as Hotokeda
Masashi Ebara as Shin Kakuno
Mugihito as Sukesaburō
Fuyuka Oura as Reia Ōzora

The staff list is as follows:

Planning: Takeshi Yasuda
Director: Shigehito Takayanagi (Galaxy Angel A, The World God Only Knows)
General Producer: Gō Kikuchi
Series Composition: Hideyuki Kurata (Dragon Crisis!)
Scripts: Hideyuki Kurata, Katsuhiko Takayama (And Yet the Town Moves), Yasuko Kamo
Character Design: Shintetsu Takiyama (Haiyore! Nyaruko-san W)
Chief Animation Director: Shintetsu Takiyama
Sub-character Design: Mitsuru Ishihara (MegaMan NT Warrior)
Prop Design: Takuya Matsumura (To Love-Ru)
Art Director: Ryouka Kinoshita
Art Setting: Saaya Kinjō
Color design: Yumi Aburaya (Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal)
Director of Photography: Tomoyuki Nakata
CGI Director: Tomoki Tsukamoto
Editing: Jin Nogawa
Sound Director: Yota Tsuruoka (Appleseed XIII, Cat Planet Cuties)
Sound Effects: Hiromune Kurahashi
Acoustics: Yoshimi Sugiyama
Sound Studio: Studio 2010
Sound Production: Rakuonsha
Music: Evan Call (Elements Garden)
Music Production: Lantis
Music Producer: Shigeru Saitō (Lantis), Terushige Yoshii (Lantis)
Executive producer: Takeshi Yasuda
Producer: Atsushi Itou
Animation producer: Takahiro Koyama
Animation Production: Xebec (Elemental Gelade, Haiyore! Nyaruko-san W)
Production: Tokyo ESP Production Committee

Segawa launched the "afterschool psychic action" series in Kadokawa's Monthly Shōnen Ace magazine in 2010, shortly after ending The Enchained Spiritual Beast Ga-Rei supernatural action series. Kadokawa published the ninth compiled book volume of Tokyo ESP last December.

The anime will premiere on July 11.

[Via xiarei ken]