The official promotional video for the short-form TV anime Ganglion, created by Hisaya Shiraiwa and Takashi Itsuki, has been released. Alongside the PV, the ending theme was revealed: NIKO NIKO TAN TAN’s track “Miracle” will serve as the ending theme, adding color to the series.
The anime will premiere on October 3, airing in a short format of approximately five minutes per episode, including commercial breaks.
Official Trailer:
Main Visual:
CAST:
Yōji Ueda as Kenji Isobe
Fumihiko Tachiki as Colonel Shadow (real name: Jin Kageyama)
Tomokazu Sugita as HOPEMAN
Aoi Koga as Setsuko Isobe
Yoshino Aoyama as Takashi Isobe
Hikaru Tōno as Komiko
Itsuji Itao as Old Man at the Food Stall
STAFF:
Planning: Yoshimoto Kogyo
Script: Harise
Director: Ayumu Watanabe
Assistant Director: Ryōsuke Tanaka
Character Designer, Chief Animation Director: Shigeru Fujita
Storyboards: Ryōsuke Tanaka, Takuji Mmiyamoto, Masayuki Miyaji, Yutaka Yamamoto, Hyūga Yamamura, Shin’ichirō Ushijima, Megumi Soga, Yujiro Abe
Series Composition: Tomoaki Shiono (name romanization not confirmed)
Color Design: Naomi Nakano
Art Director: Yoshihiro Nakamura
Director of Photography: Tomoya Yokoyama
Animation Director: Fūka Niida
CG Director: Takumi Mukai
Editing: Kiyoshi Hirose
Music: Takeo Asami
Music Production: INSPION
Sound Director: Kisuke Koizumi
Sound Production: INSPION Edge
Animation: Noboru Fukae
Animation Production: Studio MAF
Cooperation: Yoshimoto Broad Entertainment
Production: Ganglion Production Committee
Published by Yoshimoto Books in 2009, this one-volume manga is a work-related drama set in early 2000s Tokyo. The story follows Isobe, an operative for “Ganglion Co., Ltd.,” a company with ambitions of world domination. Isobe takes on bizarre missions such as the “Blow Up Mt. Fuji Operation” and the “Tokyo Cedar Pollen Operation,” only to be repeatedly thwarted by his rival, Hopeman. Alongside these challenges, he must navigate the unreasonable demands of his superiors.
Source: Comic Natalie
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