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Khronos Gear Video Anime's Additional Cast Listed

The official website for G-mode's Katayoku no Khronos Gear added more cast and character information for the mixed-media franchise's original video anime (OVA) on Monday. The studio Anime International Company (AIC) is animating the project slated for release this summer.

Tomoaki Maeno will play the protagonist Musashi Miyamoto, while Aoi Yūki will play the heroine/love rival Jeanne Saya. Sayuri Yahagi and Yumi Hara round out the main cast as Haruka Sasaki and Ryou Sakamoto. Additionally, Tomo Saeki will play Napo=Leo, Nobuaki Kanemitsu will play Geese, Yukari Tamura will play Kasuga, Michiko Neya will play Florence, and Hiroshi Naka will play Ikkyu.

The story is set in the near future not long from now, when humanity has completed an orbital elevator and begun developing the outer planets in earnest. An enigmatic extraterrestrial enemy known as "Obliquus" has set its sights on the solar system, and humanity enters a state of war with the first aliens it has encountered.

To counter the enemy's overwhelming technological superiority, the Khronos Foundation has assembled the descendants of every country's heroes, from Japan's Musashi Miyamoto and Ryōma Sakamoto to France's Napoleon and Joan of Arc. The foundation then fuses the descendants with "Gear" battle suits as special biological weapons, thus giving birth to "Khronos Gear."

Hiroki Hayashi (Tenchi Muyo!, El Hazard, Battle Programmer SHIRASE) is directing the Khronos Gear anime, and Ryuichi Makino (Battle Athletes, Girls Bravo, Hourou Musuko/Wandering Son) is designing the characters. JR Eki Sakurajima (Battle Programmer SHIRASE, ToHeart2 adplus) is in charge of the story scenario and scripts, while Shigemi Ikeda (Mobile Suit Gundam Seed, Mobile Suit Gundam UC) is working on the background art with art director Ayu Kawamoto (No. 6, Waiting in the Summer, Kodomo no Jikan). Aya Ouchi (Tenchi Muyo! GXP, Wandering Son) is the color key artist, and Toshiki Kameyama (Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei, Dusk Maiden of Amnesia) is the sound director.

G-Mode's official YouTube page also began streaming a promotional video for a Katayoku no Khronos Gear mobile phone game due out in early June titled Katakyou no Khronos Gear: ~Hikari to Yami no Eiyuu no Monogatari ga Ima Hajimaru~ (Now Begins the Story of the Heroes of Darkness and Lightness) this week.

[Via Saishin Anime Jōhō]

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