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'SukaSuka' Anime Streams Live-Action Teaser Video

posted on by Karen Ressler
Fantasy anime premieres in April

Kadokawa began streaming an "overseas edition" promotional video for the anime adaptation of Akira Kareno and illustrator ue's Shūmatsu Nani Shitemasu ka? Isogashii Desu ka? Sukutte Moratte Ii Desu ka? (What do you do at the end of the world? Are you busy? Will you save us? or "SukaSuka" for short) light novel series on Friday. The video features live-action footage with English text that explains the story. The video also features Tamaru Yamada's performance of the Simon & Garfunkel song "Scarborough Fair."

The series will premiere on Tokyo MX and KBS Kyoto at 1:05 a.m. at night on Wednesday, April 12 (effectively Thursday morning). It will also air on TV Aichi, Sun TV, TVQ Kyushu Broadcasting, BS11, and AT-X. The d Anime Store (Docomo Anime Store) will begin streaming the series on April 13.

The anime's cast includes: (Note: character name spellings aren't official.)

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Original writer Kareno is personally handling series composition, and is also penning the scripts alongside Mariko Mochizuki (Aquarion Logos), Shingo Nagai (New Game!), and Toshizo Nemoto (Macross Delta). Jun'ichi Wada (The Disappearance of Nagato Yuki-chan, Ragnastrike Angels) is directing the series at C2C and Satelight. Tōru Imanishi (Ragnastrike Angels) is designing the characters for animation based on ue's original character designs and is also serving as chief animation director. Stanislas Brunet (Senki Zesshō Symphogear, Macross Delta) is credited for world concept design, while Hocchi, Shinya Asanuma, and Toshinari Tanaka are credited for concept design. Hiroyuki Taiga is credited for design works, and Junichi Fukunaga is credited for prop design.

Azusa Tadokoro will perform the anime's theme song "Dearest Drop." TRUE (Sound! Euphonium, Beautiful Bones -Sakurako's Investigation-) is performing the anime's ending theme song "From."

The series is set in a world where humans have been driven to extinction by "Beasts." The duty of fighting the Beasts fall to "Fairies," who are destined to use their powers to wield "Holy Swords" called "Kariyon" and eventually meet their destiny of death. A sole human being named Willem wakes up after several hundred years, and continues his fight against the Beasts. The series follows the everyday and transient lives of the leader Willem and the female fairy warriors.

Writer Kareno and illustrator ue launched the series in 2014, and published the fifth and final novel in April. Kareno and ue launched the first novel in a sequel series titled Shūmatsu Nani Shitemasu ka? Mō Ichido Dake Aemasu ka? (Do you have what THE END? May I meet you once again?) last April, and the third volume in the new series shipped in December.

New illustrator Kaname Seu launched a manga adaptation of the original novel series in Kadokawa's Comic Alive magazine last June.


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