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I'm Standing on a Million Lives Anime's Video Reveals Kanako Takatsuki's Song

The official website for the television anime of Naoki Yamakawa and Akinari Nao's I'm Standing on a Million Lives (100-Man no Inochi no Ue ni Ore wa Tatteiru) manga revealed on Sunday that Kanako Takatsuki is performing the opening song "Anti world." The song's single release will ship on October 14 as Takatsuki's solo artist debut. The website began streaming the anime's opening video that features the song.

The anime will premiere in October.

The cast includes:

• Yūto Uemura as Yūsuke Yotsuya
• Risa Kubota as Iu Shindo
• Azumi Waki as Kusue Hakozaki
• Makoto Koichi as Yuka Tokitate

Kumiko Habara (PriPri Chii-chan!!, Battle Spirits Burning Soul episode director) is directing the anime at Maho Film. Takao Yoshioka (High School DxD, Your Lie in April, Konohana Kitan) is in charge of the series scripts. Eri Kojima and Toshihide Masudate (In Another World With My Smartphone) are designing the characters, and Yūko Ōba is drawing the sub-character designs.

The other staff members include:

• Color Design: Aki Watanabe
• Art Director: Satoshi Shibata
• Director of Photography: Yukina Nomura
• Sound Director: Satoshi Yano
• Music: Ken Itō
• Music Production: Lantis

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

Ninth grader Yusuke Yotsuya is practical, friendless, and not active in any clubs. Then one day, he and two female classmates are suddenly sent to another world where they must work together to battle for their lives. Yotsuya is a lone wolf and has always lived his life according to his wants, but how will that work out now that he's supposed to be a hero?! Get ready for a one-of-a-kind fantasy story that will challenge everything you thought you knew about fantasy!

Yamakawa and Nao launched the manga in Kodansha's Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine in June 2016, and Kodansha will publish the manga's ninth compiled book volume on March 9. Kodansha Comics published the manga's sixth volume on March 17.

Nao's Trinity Seven manga inspired a 12-episode television anime series that premiered in October 2014, and Crunchyroll streamed the anime as it aired in Japan. Sentai Filmworks released the series with an English dub on Blu-ray Disc and DVD in August 2016. The Trinity Seven: Eternal Library & Alchemic Girl film opened in Japan in February 2017. Trinity Seven: Heavens Library & Crimson Lord (Trinity Seven: Tenkū Toshokan to Shinku no Maō), the second film in the franchise, opened in Japan in March 2019. Crunchyroll is streaming both films.

Sources: I'm Standing on a Million Lives anime's website, Comic Natalie