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Animax Adds Terraformars Sci-Fi TV Anime
posted on by Andrew Osmond
The site Animax announced that it will stream the television anime adaptation of Yū Sasuga and Kenichi Tachibana's sci-fi Terra Formars manga. Episodes that have been already screened will be made available for catch-up, while new episodes will be shown following their broadcast in Japan.
The story is described as follows:
With Earth becoming increasingly overpopulated, an ambitious plan has been put into place to terraform Mars using mold and cockroaches. Nearly 500 years after the plan, a mission to Mars, Annex 1, is under way to accomplish crucial research into the Virus currently plaguing mankind with the crew members who've been injected with various DNA of life on Earth in order to combat the Terra Formars, giant humanoid cockroaches.
The anime will star:
- Yoshimasa Hosoya as Akari Hizamaru
- Hidenobu Kiuchi as Shōkichi Komachi
- Shizuka Itou as Michelle
- Kaito Ishikawa as Marcos
- KENN as Alex
- Ai Kayano as Sheila
- Daisuke Ono as Keiji Onizuka
- Chiaki Takahashi as Kanako Sanjō
- Aki Toyosaki as Yaeko Yanasegawa
- Tomokazu Sugita as Ichirō Hiruma
- Unshou Ishizuka as Sylvester
- Tetsuo Komura as Liu Yiwu
- Ayane Sakura as Eva Frost
- Kenji Akabane as Ivan Perepelkina
- Romi Park as Elena Perepelkina
- Toshiyuki Morikawa as Shichisei Hiruma
- Kōji Yusa as Adolf Reinhard
- Akira Ishida as Joseph
- Hiroshi Yanaka as Ko Honda
Hiroshi Hamasaki (Shigurui: Death Frenzy, Texhnolyze, Steins;Gate) is directing the TV anime at LIDEN FILMS. Shogo Yasukawa (Hyperdimension Neptunia, Invaders of the Rokujyōma!?) is handling the series composition, Masanori Shino (Shigurui: Death Frenzy, Black Lagoon) is handling the main character design, Satoshi Kimura (key animator for Mobile Suit Gundam 00, Valvrave the Liberator) is handling the character design, Takahari Ozaki (composite director for Texhnolyze) is serving as assistant director, and Shusei Murai (Silver Spoon, Tibetan Dog) is composing the music. Terrspex is performing the opening song "Amazing Break" and the ending theme song "Lightning."