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To the Abandoned Sacred Beasts Anime Reveals Cast for 9 Incarnates

The official website for the television anime of Maybe's to the abandoned Sacred Beasts (Katsute Kami Datta Kemono-tachi e) manga announced nine more cast members for the anime on Thursday. While the site did not list the specific roles for each new cast member, it noted that all nine cast members are playing Hank and Cain's Incarnate soldier comrades. The newly announced cast members are:

• Kōki Uchiyama
• Tomokazu Sugita
• Tatsuhisa Suzuki
• Shinnosuke Tachibana
• Kenjiro Tsuda
• Saori Hayami
• Daisuke Hirakawa
• Jun Fukuyama
• Hiroki Yasumoto

The previously revealed cast includes:

• Katsuyuki Konishi as Hank
• Ai Kakuma as Nancy Schaal Bancroft
• Yūichi Nakamura as Cain
• Mamiko Noto as Elaine
• Kaito Ishikawa as Claude
• Yōko Hikasa as Liza
• Kana Ichinose as Miglieglia
• Maaya Sakamoto as Elizabeth

Vertical Comics is publishing the manga in English, and it describes the story:

During a protacted civil war that pitted the North against the South, the outnumbered Northerners used dark magic to create monsterous super-soldiers called Incarnates. Now that the war has ended, those Sacred Beasts must learn to make their way in a peaceful society, or face death at the hands of a Beast Hunter.

Nancy Schaal Bancroft, the daughter of an Incarnate, turns to hunting the hunter herself. But once she catches up with her quarry, she discovers hard truths about the lives of these Sacred Beasts.

Jun Shishido (storyboards and episode director for Yuri!!! on Ice, Death Parade, Banana Fish) is making his series directorial debut with this anime at MAPPA, and Shigeru Murakoshi (Zombie Land Saga) is in charge of the series scripts. Daisuke Niinuma (episode animation director for Banana Fish, Kids on the Slope) is designing the characters, and is also serving as the chief animation director. Takayuki Sano is credited for Incarnate design. Chikako Kamata (Yuri!!! on Ice, Banana Fish) is the color designer, while Hirofumi Morikawa (Banana Fish) is the art director. Momoko Mifune (Yuri!!! on Ice, Banana Fish) is the director of photography, and Satoshi Aihara is the editor.

The anime will premiere in July on Tokyo MX, MBS, and BS11. Many of the cast members, director Jun Shishido, and producer Manabu Ōtsuka will appear at a screening of the first two episodes in Tokyo on June 30.

Manga creator duo Maybe (Dusk maiden of Amnesia) launched the manga in Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine in June 2014, and Kodansha published the manga's ninth volume on February 8.

Sources: to the abandoned Sacred Beasts anime's website, MoCa News