A newly launched website announced that Hisaya Shiraiwa and Takashi Itsuki’s Ganglion manga is getting a TV anime adaptation. The Ganglion anime will premiere on October 3, and it will air on TV Tokyo, TV Osaka, AT-X, and BS Yoshimoto.
The anime’s cast includes (official character name romanizations pending):
- Yōji Ueda as Kenji Isobe
- Fumihiko Tachiki as Colonel Shadow (Jin Kageyama)
- Tomokazu Sugita as HOPEMAN
- Aoi Koga as Setsuko Isobe
- Yoshino Aoyama as Takashi Isobe
- Hikaru Tōno as Komiko
- Itsuji Itao as Old Man at the Food Stall
The anime’s staff includes:
- Planning: Yoshimoto Kogyo
- Script: Harise
- Director: Ayumu Watanabe
- Assistant Director: Ryōsuke Tanaka
- Character Designer, Chief Animation Director: Shigeru Fujita
- Storyboards: Ryōsuke Tanaka, Takuji Miyamoto, Masayuki Miyaji, Yutaka Yamamoto, Hyūga Yamamura, Shinichirō Ushijima, Megumi Soga, Yujiro Abe
- Series Composition: Tomoaki Shiono (official name romanization pending)
- Color Design: Naomi Nakano
- Art Director: Yoshihiro Nakamura
- Director of Photography: Tomoya Yokoyama
- Animation Director: Fūka Niida
- CG Director: Takumi Mukai
- Editing: Kiyoshi Hirose
- Music: Takeo Asami
- Music Production: INSPION
- Sound Director: Kisuke Koizumi
- Sound Production: INSPION Edge
- Animation: Noboru Fukae
- Animation Production: studio maf
- Cooperation: Yoshimoto Broad Entertainment
- Production: Ganglion Production Committee
Yoshimoto Books published the one-volume Ganglion manga in 2009. The manga is set in Tokyo in the early 2000s and focuses on Isobe, a fighter for “Ganglion Co, Ltd.” Ganglion is a company plotting world domination, and Isobe is tasked on missions where he has to deal with his superiors’ unreasonable demands.
