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Triage X Anime Listed at 10 Episodes
posted on by Sarah Nelkin
A flyer at the AnimeJapan 2015 event's business day lists the television anime of Shoji Sato's Triage X manga as 10 episodes long, along with an original video animation (OVA) episode.
The show will premiere on Tokyo MX, Sun TV, and TVQ Broadcasting Kyushu on April 8, and on TV Saitama, Chiba TV, TVK, Gifu Broadcasting, and Mie TV on April 9. BS 11 will run the show on April 10. The cast will host a preview screening on March 29 in Tokyo, and the performers of the opening song "triage" and Amina Satō will perform songs at the event.
Yen Press publishes the manga in North America, and it describes the story:
Mochizuki General Hospital boasts some of the most well-trained (and well-endowed) nurses in town. But though these ladies spend much of their day battling disease, their after-hours are spent fighting a very different sort of sickness... Under the leadership of the hospital chairman, a handful of staff members and local teenagers form a group of mercenary assassins, targeting the "cancers" of society and excising those individuals before their wickedness spreads.
The previously announced main cast members include:
Yui Kondou as Mikoto Kiba
Amina Satō (former AKB48 member) as Oriha Nashida
Fuyuka Oura as Yūko Sagiri
Masumi Asano as Miki Tsurugi
Ryoko Shiraishi as Sayo Hitsugi
Saeko Zōgō (Isuca, Maken-Ki! Battling Venus, Chaika - The Coffin Princess, Dai - Shogun - Great Revolution ending themes) featuring Nagareda Project (Dragon Collection, Saint Seiya Omega) will provide the show's opening theme, titled "triage." Kazutomi Yamamoto (Cute High Earth Defense Club LOVE! opening theme) will perform the show's ending theme, titled "Soleil More."
The staff list is as follows:
- Planning: Takeshi Yasuda
- Director: Akio Takami and Takao Kato
- Series Composition: Katsuhiko Takayama
- Character Design: Akio Takami
- Prop Design: Natsuko Fujiwara and Yasuyoshi Uezu
- Art Director: Yoshio Tanioka
- Director of Photography: Hayao Arimura
- Color Design: Ayumi Ikeda
- Editing: Jin Nogawa
- Sound Director: Takatoshi Hamano
- Sound Effects: Yuji Furuya
- Sound Production: Dax Production
- Music Production: Nippon Columbia
- Music Producer: Shunichi Uemura
- Animation Production: XEBEC
Sato launched the manga in Kadokawa's Monthly Dragon Age magazine in 2009, and Kadokawa's Fujimi Shobo imprint will publish the 10th compiled volume on Friday, March 6. Yen Press published the seventh volume on August 26. Sato also drew the art for High School of the Dead, another manga that inspired an anime.
