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Tasūketsu Anime's Full Promo Video Announces More Cast, July 2 Debut

The official website for the anime of Taiga Miyakawa's Tasūketsu manga posted on Tuesday the anime's full promotional video, more cast members, ending theme song and artist, and July 2 premiere. The video also previews the "Emperor Time" opening theme song by Vivarush.

The newly announced cast members are (image above from left to right):

• Kotomi Aihara as Bōrinmaru Gokokuhōtenji
• Shiki Aoki as Rika Suzuki
• Kentarō Kumagai as Hayato Sōma

The anime will premiere on NTV on July 2 at 25:59 JST (effectively, July 3 at 1:59 a.m. JST). It will then run on the BS NTV and RAB Aomori Broadcasting Corporation channels on July 3.

Musical artist issey performs the ending theme song "GAME OVER."

• Yūto Uemura as Saneatsu Narita
• Anna Nagase as Saaya Fujishiro
• Kazuki Ura as Ryūta Ichinose
• Kouki Ohsuzu as Kazuhiko Satō
• Shiori Mikami as Omi Jin
• Yuki Nakashima as Eren Kunashiri
• Daisuke Ono as Tōjūrō Yagihashi
• Jun Kasama as Ryōei Sudō
• Shūta Morishima as Sōtarō Shinozaki
• KENN as Ren Iruga
• Kenjirō Tsuda as Hisoka Midō
• Yuka Terasaki as the Emperor

Tatsuo Satō (Martian Successor Nadesico, Lagrange - The Flower of Rin-ne) is directing the anime and overseeing the series scripts at Satelight. Tōru Hamazaki (episode director for JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean, Katana Maidens: Toji no Miko) is the assistant director, Nami Hayashi (Black Clover chief animation director) is designing the characters, and R.O.N (FLCL Alternative, The Slime Diaries) is composing the music

Other staff members include:

• Background Art: Katsuhisa Takiguchi (Studio Tulip)
• Art Director: Daisuke Suzuki (Studio Tulip)
• Color Design: Miho Hasegawa (Hiwa)
• Director of Photography: Tsuyoshi Shimura (T2 Studio)
• Editing: Shūji Matsumoto
• Design Works: Yūjirō Yamane (Inaho)
• Sound Director: Yayoi Tateishi
• Sound Effects: Noriko Izumo
• Sound Production: Team Kawadon

The manga ranked in the top 10 on the "manga we want to see animated" ranking at the AnimeJapan 2019 and AnimeJapan 2020 events.

The Tasūketsu manga's first part premiered in 2013 and ended in 2014. The manga's second part Tasūketsu: FINAL KEQ debuted in 2015 and ended in 2017. Tasūketsu: Judgement Assizes, the manga's third part, premiered on GANMA! in November 2017.

The manga's story follows a group of five in a world where people have suddenly disappeared. A mysterious self-proclaimed "Emperor" gathers five people together through anonymous messages and has them participate in a game. Participants answer the question "Do you want to live or die?" The game has only one rule: "Majority dies."

The manga previously inspired the Tasūketsu: Judgement Assizes anime short that was funded through a Campfire crowdfunding campaign in 2020. The anime short released in January 2021 and had a different cast from this new project.

Sources: Tasūketsu anime's website, Comic Natalie