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Takahiro Sakurai, Natsumi Fujiwara, Mariya Ise Join Angels of Death Anime's Cast
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
The official website for J.C. Staff's anime of the Angels of Death (Satsuriku no Tenshi) game revealed three more cast members and five character designs for the anime on Saturday.
The new cast members include:
Takahiro Sakurai as Danny
Natsumi Fujiwara as Eddie
Mariya Ise as Cathy
The previously revealed cast includes:
Nobuhiko Okamoto as Zack
Haruka Chisuga as Rachel
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 anime will premiere in July.
Yen Press is releasing artist Kudan Nazuka and author Makoto Sanada's manga adaptation in English, and it describes the story:
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 seventh on April 27. Author Chiren Kina wrote a three-volume novel series for the franchise. Kadokawa published the third volume on April 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.
Update: Changed name spellings of characters to reflect name spellings in English game. Thanks, futuresoon.
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