A new trailer for the TV anime adaptation of Hisaya Shiraiwa and Takashi Itsuki’s Ganglion manga revealed the anime’s ending theme song “Miracle” by NIKO NIKO TAN TAN. 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 (real name: 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.
