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Animax Asia Posts Ad for SukaSuka Anime's Airing

Animax Asia began streaming a commercial for its airing of the SukaSuka anime on Thursday. The anime premieres on February 14, and will air two episodes every Wednesday and Thursday at 8:00 p.m. GMT +8.

SukaSuka adapts writer Akira Kareno and illustrator ue's What do you do at the end of the world? Are you busy? Will you save us? (Shūmatsu Nani Shitemasu ka? Isogashii Desu ka? Sukutte Moratte Ii Desu ka?) light novel series. The 12-episode anime premiered last April.

The anime is set in a world where humans have long since died out in an apocalyptic war with god-like beings, with the aftermath of that war awakening "Beasts" that completed the desolation of the world. In desperation, the surviving demi-human races flee to floating islands to escape, occasionally venturing down to the surface in expeditions for lost magic and technology. In one of these expeditions, they find Willem, the last surviving human brave, frozen in time since the war. After awakening, Willem lives out an aimless life, until directed by a friend to a military desk job that entails the handling of "Leprechauns," individuals who wield long-forgotten weapons, born and bred to fight and give their lives to stave off any Beast incursion. Here, Willem meets Ctholly, the eldest of the Fairies, finding kinship in each other through a common life spent in violence.

Kareno personally handled series composition, and also penned 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) directed the series at C2C and Satelight. Tōru Imanishi (Ragnastrike Angels) designed the characters for animation based on ue's original character designs and also served as chief animation director.