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ēlDLIVE TV Anime's Rough Design for New Character Revealed
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The ēlDLIVE television anime revealed on Saturday a new rough character design by the original manga's creator Akira Amano. A character profile and voice actor for the character have not been announced.
The first 2017 issue of Shueisha's Shonen Jump X magazine exclusively revealed more of Amano's sketches on Saturday. The issue's cover features crossover art with ēlDLIVE and Yūki Tabata's Black Clover manga.
The anime will premiere on Tokyo MX on January 8 at 10:00 p.m. The anime will also then air on Fukuoka Broadcasting, Yomiuri TV, Sapporo TV, Chukyo TV, and BS11.
Viz Media published the first three chapters of the manga in English digitally in September-October 2014 as part of its "Jump Start" initiative, and it describes the manga as follows:
"Mumbling" Chūta Kokonose doesn't have many friends. In fact, the only conversations he has anymore are with voices inside his head. Little does he know that this voice doesn't mean he's crazy. It just means he has an alien living inside his body!
The cast stars:
Saori Hayami as Misuzu Sonokata
Rie Kugimiya as Dorū
Tatsuhisa Suzuki as Laine Brick
Daiki Kobayashi as Assistant Inspector Chips
The other cast members include:
- Riho Iida as Beronica
- Lynn as Ninotchka
- Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Dr. Ravu
- Neeko as Harry
- Eriko Matsui as Tonto
- Kenichirou Matsuda as Riggs
- Akiko Kimura as Aunt Mimi
- Akio Suyama as Tateyan
- Minami Takahashi as Maclane
- Masaaki Ihara as Melies
- Tomotaka Hachisuka as Geronimo
Takeshi Furuta (The Comic Artist and His Assistants, Saint Seiya: Soul of Gold, Utano Princesama Legend Star) is directing at Studio Pierrot with assistant director Tomoya Tanaka (Blood Lad). Toshimitsu Takeuchi (Saint Seiya: Soul of Gold, Shōnen Ashibe GO! GO! Goma-chan, Weiß Survive R) is in charge of the series scripts. Han Seungah (Seung Ah Han) is serving as character designer and chief animation director with sub-character designer Keiichirou Matsui (Deadman Wonderland). Yasuharu Takanashi (Naruto Shippūden, Fairy Tail, Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Crystal) of Team-MAX is composing the music.
Female singer Alfakyun is performing the opening theme song, while The Super Ball duo (The Morose Mononokean) are performing the ending theme song.
A "New Akira Amano in Kyoto" exhibition will run from January 20 to February 12 in the Galerie Aube at the Kyoto University of Art and Design. The exhibition will screen a roundtable discussion between the ēlDLIVE anime's main cast, and a reunion between the cast members of Reborn! — another anime based on a manga by Amano. The Shonen Jump+ app is conducting an ēlDLIVE and Reborn! character popularity poll, and the top 3 characters will have art on display at the exhibition, rotated every week. The exhibition will also have exclusive goods.
A previous "Amano Akira Illustrations Exhibition" showed a collaboration mini anime video between ēlDLIVE and Reborn! at the pixiv Zingaro gallery in Tokyo's Nakano Broadway complex this past summer. The Kyoto exhibition will be an expanded version of the Tokyo one with over 100 art pieces.
Amano (Reborn!) launched the original series in full color on Shonen Jump+'s predecessor app Jump Live in August 2013. The manga switched to Shonen Jump+ when the app launched in September 2014. Shueisha released the manga's seventh compiled book volume on December 31.
Source: Comic Natalie
