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New Digimon Universe TV Anime Unveils Story, Cast, Staff, Videos, Visual

posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Yumi Uchiyama, Kokoro Kikuchi, Wataru Takagi star in October anime

The official website for the television anime of the Digimon Universe: Appli Monsters multimedia project revealed the anime's cast and staff on Thursday. The site began streaming a promotional video for the anime, as well as a video for the upcoming arcade card game machine.

The site describes the series' story:

Everyone in the world uses smartphone apps. But inside them lurks unknown creatures called "Appli Monsters," or "Appmon." The Appmon are AI lifeforms with the ability to think and act, and exist in the boundary between the human world and digital space to allow people and the system to interface and function. But in the vast sea of the internet, the "last boss AI" Leviathan takes control of the Appmon with a virus and begins hacking every system, thus starting to control the human world from the world of the net.

The protagonist, Haru Shinkai, is led to acquire the Appli Drive, and uses it to materialize Gacchimon, a search app monster. What is the secret hidden within the Appli Drive? What is the mysterious field that exists between net world where the Appmon exist, and the real world? What is the "App Combine" that can combine two Appmons? What is Leviathan's true goal?

The cast includes:

Yumi Uchiyama as Haru Shinkai

Kokoro Kikuchi as Gacchimon

Wataru Takagi as the Appli Drive

Gō Koga (Xenosaga: The Animation, Dokidoki! Precure, One Piece Episode of Sabo, Doki Doki! Precure) is directing the anime at Toei Animation. Yoichi Kato (Miracle Train - Ōedo-sen e Yōkoso, Yo-kai Watch, Monster Strike, Aikatsu!) is supervising the series scripts. Kenichi Ohnuki (Kiko Senki Dragonar, Gundam Build Fighters, Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans) is designing the characters.

The anime will premiere on TV Tokyo in October.

Source: Animate Times


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