So, can we call this 50 Shades of Anime?

Earlier today, the official Doreiku: The Animation anime website updated with a new key visual, as well as several cast reveals. We break the details down below:

Key Visual

The image features the six main characters, arranged around the show’s tagline. Each is standing before a concrete background.

Cast Members

The series will add the following:

  • Ayaka Toyoshima: Suzuna Kinoshita
  • Seiya Shinjuku: Hikaru Midorikawa
  • Julia Katsushika: Sayaka Senbongi

Visuals for the three characters were also released, which you can check out below.

Julia Katsushika
Seiya Shinjuku
Ayaka Toyoshima

Doreiku: The Animation will air on Tokyo MX and BS11 in April 2018. Netflix will stream the series as a Netflix Original in Japan.

Ryōichi Kuraya (Tsugumomo) is directing the project and writing the scripts at studios TNK and Zero-G. Junji Goto (High School DxD, School Days) will fill the dual role of character designer and chief animation director.

Doreiku: The Animation is based on Shinichi Okada and artist Hiroto Ōishi’s Doreiku: Boku to 23-nin no Dorei (Slave District: 23 Slaves and Me) manga. The series began its life as light novel series Boku to 23-nin no Dorei, which originally appeared on novel site Everystar. Futabasha picked up the rights to the series, which they began publishing the title under their main banner. Three volumes, along with sequel story Doreiku 2nd Shinjuku Kikō Kai and 23-nin no Dorei.ex have been released to date.

Okada and Ōishi have recently begun work on a new series, titled Dai Dorei: Kimi to 1-Oku 3-Senban no Dorei. One volume has been released to date, as the second will hit stores on Tuesday.

The Dorei-ku: Boku to 23-nin no Dorei manga began publication in 2012. Nine compiled volumes have been released to date, with the most recent hitting stores on May 12, 2016.

Manga resource Baka-Updates describes the series as:

What if you could enslave anyone you ever wanted? Well, this comes close. The SCM lets you enslave anyone who is also wearing an SCM, at a price. One must win over the other, at anything, in order for the other to become their slave.

Source: Otakomu