The staff of Dark Machine the Animation have announced that the anime series will premiere in 2026 on TV and streaming via Fuji TV in Japan. The original anime’s promotional video, key visual, main cast, and staff were also revealed.
The anime’s main cast includes:
- Kenshō Ono as Kairi
- Miyuki Sawashiro as Rudora
- Kōki Uchiyama as Shinn
- Riho Sugiyama as Bran
- Saya Aizawa as Isana
- Yūichi Nakamura as Ajima
Kazumi Terada directs Dark Machine the Animation at Production +h. Gorō Taniguchi is the creative producer, and Hidetaka Tenjin is the chief mechanical designer. Keiichi Yano is the project’s creator. Satohito Sata and “Team Carbuncle,” consisting of Takaaki Suzuki, Tatsuhiko Urahata, and Atsuo Ishino, is in charge of the series scripts.
Additional staff members include:
- Main Character Designer: Kō Yoshinari
- Sub-Character Designer: Akira Mitani
- Costume Design: Mebachi
- Chief Animation Directors: Yumi Kuroiwa, Hideki Itō
- Storyboard: Masatsugu Arakawa
- Color Key Artist: niko＊miko
- Art Setting: Hiromi Tateiwa, Engawa,Nariyuki Ogi
- Art Directors: Hiromi Tateiwa, Yusuke Ikeda
- CG Director: Akira Inami
- CG Action Director: Ryou Kimura
- Compositing Director of Photography: Naoko Tanaka
- Photography Supervision: Kentarō Waki
- Editing: Yuki Honda
- Sound Director: Takeshi Takadera
- Sound Effects: Tomoko Ohtsuka
- Music: SUGIZO
- Music Production: Flying Dog
The anime is based on the Dark Machine esports game, which is described as a “asynchronous big team arena shooter.”
Lastly, here’s an overview of the game, via Anime News Network:
The year is 2079.
Humankind is living in an energy bubble after Dr. Robert Palmer discovered the Palmer crystal to give humankind all of the energy it would ever need and more. Unfortunately, not all of humankind has benefited from this hyper energy source and underground battles for this energy have developed at a global scale. The factory robots that have been helping to cultivate this energy of the future have been transformed to fighting mechs by these undergrounds and they are fighting for huge stakes.
However, dark energy is said to reside in small quantities in the Palmer crystal. The use of hyper AI technologies was used in an attempt to harness this dark energy and use it for battle advantages. It is currently unclear whether this dark energy can be controlled by mechs…
