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Angels of Death Anime's 1st Promo Video Reveals Cast, Staff, July TV Debut

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Nobuhiko Okamoto, Haruka Chisuga star in anime of horror game by MARGINAL #4's director, studio

The official website for J.C. Staff's anime of the Angels of Death (Satsuriku no Tenshi) game posted the first promotional video and a visual on Tuesday. The video reveals the anime's main cast, staff, and July television premiere.

The anime stars:

Kentarō Suzuki (MARGINAL #4 the Animation) is directing the anime at J.C. Staff, and Yoshinobu Fujioka (Requiem from the Darkness, Sadako, Tomie: Forbidden Fruit) is in charge of the series scripts. Miki Matsumoto is serving as both character designer and chief animation director.

"Waisuman" (Studio Tulip) is directing the background art, and Kana Tanabe is the color key artist. Yūji Kondō (REAL-T) is editing. Yoshikazu Iwanami is directing the sound, and Yasumasa Koyama is in charge of sound effects. Noisycroak is composing the music at Lantis.

The franchise's official Twitter account announced the adaptation in July. The website's tagline reads, "Please. Kill me."

Yen Press licensed artist Kudan Naduka and author Makoto Sanada's manga adaptation and published the first volume on November 14. The second volume will ship on April 10. The company describes the manga:

Most girls waking up without any memory and meeting a serial killer would panic, but not Ray. In fact, far from being her biggest problem, killer Zack might just prove a convenient resource when it comes to finding a way out of the building in which they're both trapped!

The manga currently runs in Kadokawa's Comic Gene magazine, and the series' compiled volumes have more than 1 million copies in print. Kadokawa released the manga's fifth compiled volume and the first volume of Sanada and Naduka's Satsuriku no Tenshi: Episode.0 manga on July 27. negiyan also draws a four-panel spinoff manga in Comic Gene titled Satsuten!.

The franchise started out as Hoshikuzu KRNKRN's (Makoto Sanada) "psycho horror adventure game" that has serial releases on the "Den Fami Nico Game Magazine" website. The game is available in English on Steam under the title Angels of Death.

[Via Ota-Suke]


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