Get ready to hear a lot of one-liners in a super short time frame!
Last night, the official King’s Game The Animation anime website updated with a pair of promotional videos. The two trailers feature samples of all 48 major characters:
King’s Game The Animation is based on Nobuaki Kanazawa and illustrator Hitori Renda’s manga of the same name. Noriyoshi Sasaki (My Wife is the Student Council President+!, Ojisan to Marshmallow) is directing the project at studio Seven, with the team of Kan Soramoto and Yōsuke Itō providing character designs. Kenji Konuta (Blood Lad, Saiyuki Reload Blast) it in charge of series composition.
The confirmed voice cast includes:
- Nobuaki Kanazawa: Mamoru Miyano
- Natsuko Honda: Yui Horie
- Chiemi Honda: M.A.O
- Ria Iwamura: Pile
- Kenta Akamatsu: Yusuke Sasaki
- Naoya Hashimoto: Shinnosuke Tachibana
- Riona Matsumoto: Akari Uehara
- Shingo Adachi: Shinya Hamazoe
- Toshiyuki Abe: Yoshitsugu Matsuoka
- Satomi Ishii: Miyuu Tsuji
- Hirofumi Inoue: Suguru Narisawa
- Yosuke Ueda: Yuma Uchida
- Kana Ueda: Yui Makino
- Akira Ohno: Fukushi Ochiai
- Yusuke Kawakami: Kimito Totani
- Chia Kawano: Ami Fukushima
- Akemi Kinoshita: Konomi Yuuzaki
- Mami Shirokawa: Yuka Ohtsubo
- Daisuke Tasaki: Hisayoshi Suganuma
- Hideki Toyoda: Kenji Akabane
- Minako Nakao: Mirai Sasaki
- Misaki Nakajima: Risa Yuzuki
- Nami Hirano: Minori Suzuki
- Toshiyuki Fujioka: Koudai Sakai
- Kaori Maruoka: Mariko Honda
- Emi Miyazaki: Misaki Suzuki
- Shota Yashiro: Shuuta Morishima
- Hiroko Yamaguchi: Miya Amamiya
- Keita Yamashita: Yui Nagano
- Masatoshi: Yu Sanada
- Aya Kuramoto: Ooi Saki Fujita
- Daiki Kurosawa: Hitoshi Horinouchi
- Yuuna Kobayashi: Ai Nakajima
- Toshifumi Sakakibara: Hayato Horiuchi
- Takuya Sakamoto: Satoshi Hino
- Yuichi Sato: Tatsuhisa Suzuki
- Tatsuya Shinba: Yuusuke Tonozaki
- Ryo Sugisawa: Hiroyuki Kagura
- Shin Takada: Makoto Takada
- Nanami Takumi: Rie Hanafusa
- Teruaki Nagata: Ryota Suzuki
- Tsubasa Furusawa: Masashi Uchida
- Aya Matsuoka: Yuka Ozaki
- Rina Minami: Kana Yuki
- Aimi Murazumi: Ibuki Kido
- Haruka Momoki: Kazusa Aranami
- Mitsuki Yukimura: Suzuna Kinoshita
Crunchyroll will stream King’s Game The Animation as part of their Fall simulcast lineup. They describe the show as:
Kanazawa Nobuaki has transferred to a high school far from where he used to live. Due to an incident at his old school, Nobuaki is afraid of getting close to his new classmates and keeps himself at a distance, but he starts opening up because of a sports day inter-class relay. Then, a single text message from someone calling themselves the “King” is sent to everyone in class. Nobuaki’s classmates think it’s a simple prank, and don’t take it seriously–but Nobuaki knows that a death game is about to begin, and struggles to oppose it…
Source: Twitter (pKjd)
