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Stand My Heroes Anime's 1st Promo Reveals Misato Murai as Protagonist
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
The official website for Stand My Heroes: Piece of Truth, the television anime of the Stand My Heroes smartphone game, began streaming the first promotional video for the anime on Wednesday. The video, narrated by Tomokazu Sugita, reveals that Misato Murai will play main character Rei Izumi. The site also posted a new visual for the anime.
Previously announced cast members include:
Daisuke Namikawa as Shun Imaoji
Tomoaki Maeno as Daisuke Seki
Kousuke Toriumi as Satoru Watabe
Yuuki Kaji as Haru Natsume
Natsuki Hanae as Kōtarō Yui
Tomohito Takatsuka as Sōsei Arakida
Tetsuya Kakihara as Tsukasa Asagiri
Takuya Eguchi as Yō Hattori
Yoshitaka Yamaya as Natsuki Kanno
Yusuke Shirai as Takaomi Hiyama
Seiichirō Yamashita as Aki Kagura
Taku Yashiro as Keita Maki
Yūma Uchida as Hatori Ōtani
Kōtarō Nishiyama as Kyōsuke Tsuzuki
Shunsuke Takeuchi as Makoto Tsuzuki
Daiki Yamashita as Yamazaki Kaname
Yoshiki Nakajima as Kōya Kirishima
Chiharu Sawashiro as Sōma Kujō
Yuichiro Umehara as Gō Miyase
Toshiki Masuda as Kiyoshi Shindō
The otome puzzle game for female players is set in modern Tokyo at Matori, the narcotics control unit of investigators under the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. The protagonist, who has the unique trait of drugs having no effect on her, ends up working in the unit. She scouts personnel from investigators, idols, writers, genius high school students, top designers, butlers, underground doctors, and others to form teams of modern ikemen heroes for different missions.
Hideyo Yamamoto (Strike the Blood, The Prince of Tennis II OVA vs. Genius 10, Code:Realize -Guardian of Rebirth-) is directing the anime at M.S.C, with Sayaka Harada (STARMYU, Code:Realize -Guardian of Rebirth-) supervising the series scripts. Hajime Aida is credited as scenario adviser. Yuki Takayama (episode animation director on Code:Realize -Guardian of Rebirth-) is the character designer, and fox capture plan is composing the music.
The anime will premiere in October.
The game launched in 2016, and has since garnered 1 million downloads.
Sources: Stand My Heroes anime's website, Comic Natalie
