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Armed Girl’s Machiavellism Anime’s Cast & Staff Unveiled


Get ready for some duplicity folks. Things are about to get Machiavellian!

Earlier today, the official Armed Girl’s Machiavellism (Busō Shōjo Machiavellism) anime website opened its doors. The site contains a teaser visual, which features full body shots of Fudō Nomura (right) and Yūki Takada (left).

The site also unveiled the show’s core staff members. Hideki Tachibana (BlazBlue Alter Memory, H2O ~Footprints in the Sand~ ) will direct Armed Girl’s Machiavellism at Silver Link, with Shoko Takimoto (Chaos Dragon, Senran Kagura: Estival Versus – Festival Eve Full of Swimsuits) providing character designs. Kento Shimoyama (Good Luck Girl!, Servant × Service ) is in charge of series composition. Team-MAX’s Hiromi Mizutani () will score the soundtrack at studio Nippon Columbia.

The confirmed voice cast includes:

  • Fudō Nomura: Tasuku Hatanaka
  • Rin Onigawara: Yūki Takada

Armed Girl’s Machiavellism will première in the Spring 2017 broadcast season.

Karuna Kanzaki and illustrator Yūya Kurokami’s Armed Girl’s Machiavellism manga began publication in Kadokawa’s Monthly Shonen Ace magazien in March 2014. The series currently spans five collected volumes, the most recent of which hit Japanese bookstores on March 26.

Source: Otakomu

Editor’s Note: The show’s teaser visual is actually composed of two separate character designs. We’ve provided the separate images below:

 

Rin Onigawara
Fudō Nomura
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