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Steins;Gate's Satō, anohana's Okada Make selector infected WIXOSS Anime
posted on by Egan Loo
A website has opened on Monday to announce selector infected WIXOSS, an original television anime that will premiere this April on Tokyo MX TV and other stations. The website is streaming a video from Warner Entertainment Japan's anime unit:
The tagline of the anime is:
Hope, desire, greed.Girls with each of these feelings in their hearts are being swallowed into the vortex of a dangerous game…
Takuya Satō (Steins;Gate, Armitage III, Say "I love you.", Strawberry Marshmallow) is directing the anime at J.C. Staff. Mari Okada (anohana, Hana-Saku Iroha, Amazing Twins) is charge of the series scripts, based on an original story by LRIG (Warner Entertainment Japan, Takara Tomy, J.C. Staff). Kyuta Sakai (When They Cry - Higurashi, Steins;Gate, Strawberry Marshmallow) is designing the characters, and Yoshikazu Iwanami is directing the sound. Maiko Iuchi (A Certain Magical Index , Dog Days, Waiting in the Summer) is composing the music, while Kanon Wakeshima (Vampire Knight, To Love-Ru -Trouble- Darkness, Strike the Blood) is contributing the opening theme song. Kentaro Akiyama (Studio Pablo) is the art director, and Yukiko Itou is the color key artist. Shingo Fukuyo is the director of photography, and Masahiro Goto (REAL-T) is editing.
The toy and game maker Takara Tomy is also announcing that it will launch WIXOSS (pronounced like "wi-cross") in April.
The cast includes:
- Ai Kakuma as Rūko Kominato
- Ayane Sakura as Yuzuki Kurebayashi
- Ai Kayano as Hitoe Uemura
- Chinatsu Akasaki as Aki Aoi
- Asami Seto as Iona Urasoe
- Yūsuke Kobayashi as Kazuki Kurebayashi
- Misaki Kuno as Tama
- Ayako Kawasumi as Hanayo
- Rie Kugimiya as Urisu
Image © LRIG/Project Selector
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