It was
confirmed that the Ganglion manga, created by
screenwriter Hisaya Shiraiwa and illustrated by Takashi
Itsuki, will have a television adaptation. The premiere is scheduled
for October 3 on TV Tokyo, TV Osaka, AT-X,
and BS Yoshimoto. To celebrate the news, illustrator Itsuki shared
a special illustration.
The main
cast
The anime
will feature a voice cast led by:
- 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 the old man at the
food stall
A top-notch production team
The
direction will be in charge of Ayumu Watanabe, with Ryōsuke
Tanaka as assistant. Shigeru Fujita will serve as
character designer and animation director, while Takeo Asami will
compose the music, produced by INSPION. Studio maf will
be in charge of the animation, under the supervision of the Ganglion
Production Committee. The staff also includes names such as Naomi
Nakano (color design), Yoshihiro Nakamura (art
direction) and Kisuke Koizumi (sound direction).
History
of Ganglion
The
original manga was published in a single volume by Yoshimoto Books in
2009. Set in Tokyo in the early 2000s, it narrates the misadventures of Kenji
Isobe, a fighter in the service of the company Ganglion Co, Ltd.,
an organization that seeks world domination through plans as crazy as
"Operation Blow Up Mount Fuji" or "Operation Cedar Dust in
Tokyo". However, all their attempts are thwarted by the hero Hopeman,
while Isobe deals with the absurd demands of his superiors.
