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Gangsta. TV Anime Reveals More Cast, Staff, Theme Song Performers

The July issue of Shinchosha's Monthly Comic @Bunch magazine is revealing additional cast, staff, and theme song performers for the anime of Kohske's Gangsta. manga on Thursday.

The additional cast includes:

Hideyuki Umezu as Uranos Corsica
Tomokazu Seki as Striker
Sayaka Ōhara as Beretta
Yūta Kasuya as Colt
Yu Shimamura as Erica
Shiori Izawa as Sig
Atsumi Tanezaki as Mikhail

The additional staff is as follows:

• Art Design: Masahiro Kubota
• Art Director: Masatoshi Kai (Studio KAIMU)
• Color Design: Yuuko Saitou
• Prop Design: Shinobu Tsuneki
• Director of Photography: Yuuichirou Nagata (Asahi Production)
• Editing: Tomoki Nagasaka (Jay Film)
• Sound Director: Yukio Nagasaki

In addition, STEREO DIVE FOUNDATION will perform the anime's opening theme, while Annabel will perform the ending theme.

The previously announced cast include:

Kenjirō Tsuda as Nicolas Brown
Junichi Suwabe as Worick Arcangelo
Mamiko Noto as Alex Benedetto
Ami Koshimizu as Constance Raveau
Masako Isobe as Joel Raveau
Hiroyuki Yoshino as Doug
Kana Ueda as Loretta Cristiano Amodio
Katsuhisa Houki as Daniel Monroe
Mikako Komatsu as Ginger
Takahiro Sakurai as Marco Adriano
Takuya Kirimoto as Ivan Glaziev
Tetsu Inada as Galahad Woehor
Tsuyoshi Koyama as Miles Mayer
Yoshiko Sakakibara as Gina Paulklee
Satoshi Mikami as Theo
Aoi Yūki as Nina
Tomoaki Maeno as Yang
Tomohisa Hashizume as Delico
Tetsuo Kaneo as Chad Adkins
Kaito Ishikawa as Cody Balfour
Junji Majima as Emilio Benedetto
Shintarou Oohata as Gaston Brown
Kōji Yusa as Domenico Arcangelo

Shukou Murase (Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic, Genocidal Organ) is directing the anime with series composition by Shinichi Inotsume (Hayate the Combat Butler, The Pilot's Love Song), and Koichi Hatsumi (Berserk: The Golden Age Arc I - The Egg of the King, Deadman Wonderland) is credited as series director. Yōichi Ueda is designing the characters for the anime, and Tsutchie (Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo) is composing the music for the soundtrack. Manglobe (The Unlimited - Hyōbu Kyōsuke, Hayate the Combat Butler! Cuties) is producing the animation.

The series is scheduled to premiere this July.

The manga revolves around Nick and Worick, two men who take on jobs from both the mafia and the police in the town of Ergastulum, a rotten town filled with mafia, hoodlums, prostitutes, and dirty cops.

Kohske launched the original manga in Shinchosha's Monthly Comic @Bunch magazine in 2010, and Shinchosha published the sixth compiled volume in July. Viz has licensed the series for North American release, and the company shipped the sixth compiled volume in English on May 19.