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Funimation Licenses Tokyo ESP Anime

FUNimation Entertainment announced on Friday that it has acquired the streaming and home video rights for the anime of Hajime Segawa's Tokyo ESP manga. The episodes will stream on Fridays at 2:05 p.m. EDT starting on July 11.

In addition, Crunchyroll announced on Thursday that it will stream the series on Fridays at 2:15 p.m. EDT in Bahrain, Cyprus, Iran, Islamic Republic of, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syrian, Arab Republic, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Albania, Andorra, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Malta, Republic of Moldova, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Holy See (Vatican City State), Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Monaco, Montenegro, Poland, Portugal, San Marino, Slovakia, Serbia, Romania, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine, Algeria, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Mauritania, Morocco, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, and Western Sahara.

Funimation describes the story:

Rinka is a high school student in Tokyo trying to make ends meet while supporting herself and her father. Her ordinary life takes a turn for the extraordinary when she witnesses a penguin and a school of fish flying through the air. After catching up to one of the fish, she passes out and wakes up to find herself suddenly granted supernatural powers. With her newfound ability to walk through solid objects, Rinka is about to learn just how transparent the world can be.

The cast includes:

Ibuki Kido as Rinka Urushiba
Keisuke Kōmoto 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
Tesshō 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 tenth compiled book volume of Tokyo ESP in June.