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Rewrite Anime's 2nd Promo, Additional Staff Unveiled
posted on by Karen Ressler
The official website for the television anime of the Rewrite visual novel revealed a second promotional video, new key visual, and additional staff on Saturday.
In addition, director Tensho revealed on Twitter that the anime will have an original development that is not in the game. Romeo Tanaka and Visual Art's Kai were present at all of the script meetings for this development.
The newly-announced staff members are:
- Scenario: Takashi Aoshima, Tatsuya Takahashi
- Background Artist: Yoshinori Shiozawa
- Art Director: Kazuhiro Inoue
- Color Design: Tomomi Murakami
- Director of Photography: Katsuhito Ogawa
- CG Director: Masato Takahashi
- Editor: Mutsumi Takemiya
- Music: Shinji Orito, Maiko Iuchi, Soushi Hosoi, Ryō Mizutsuki, Jun Maeda
- Music Production: Visual Art's
- Sound Production: Magic Capsule
Tensho (Kinmoza! Kiniro + Mosaic, The Fruit of Grisaia) is directing the anime at 8-bit and also supervising the series scripts. Romeo Tanaka (Cross Channel scenario, Humanity Has Declined) and Visual Art's Kai (Clannad scanrio, Grim Reaper Kyou) are credited with collaborating on the composition and scripts. Masayuki Nonaka (Hello!! KINMOZA chief animation director, The Fruit of Grisaia main animator) is adapting the game's original character designs by Key/Visual Art's Itaru Hinoue (Kanon, Air, Clannad, Little Busters!) for animation.
Itaru Hinoue (AIR, Kanon, CLANNAD) served as the game's project creator and main illustrator. Romeo Tanaka, Ryukishi07 (Higurashi no Naku Koro ni, Umineko no Naku Koro ni) and Yuto Tonokawa (Little Busters!) wrote the game's storyline scenarios. Jun Maeda (AIR, CLANNAD, Angel Beats) was involved with Rewrite's musical compositions and quality control.
The anime will premiere in July.
The software's voice cast is returning for the anime:
- Masakazu Morita as Kotarō Tennōji
- Chiwa Saito as Kotori Kanbe
- Saya Shinomiya as Chihaya Ohtori
- Eri Kitamura as Akane Senri
- Keiko Suzuki as Shizuru Nanatsu
- Risa Asaki as Lucia Konohana
- Kana Hanazawa as Kagari
The original 2011 Rewrite visual novel takes place in Kazamatsuri, a fictional city where civilization and greenery co-exist. Within it, players assume the role of student Kotaro Tennoji and interact with his fellow classmates Kotori Kanbe, Chihaya Ohtori, Akane Senri, Sizuru Nakatsu, and Lucia Konohana.
The Rewrite Harvest festa! fan disc, written by the game's original team of Tanaka, Ryukishi07, and Tonokawa, featured various additional stories involving the heroines of the original game, and both were illustrated by Key artist Itaru Hinoue. The original game was also ported to the PSP and PS Vita systems in 2014, followed by a PlayStation 3 version in February 2015.
Source: Moca News
Thanks to zayd gh for the news tip.
Thanks to Kagayaki and Dennis R for the embedded videos.
