Kodoani.com – A live-streamed special for the new CloverWorks original TV anime series, Tokyo Twenty Four Wards (Tokyo 24-ku) revealed the first full promotional video and first key visual for the anime on Wednesday. Announcement video and preview of the opening theme song “Paper Sky” by rock band Survive Said the Prophet. The information also adds the cast and staff as well as the January 5 premiere for the anime.
The newly announced cast members are:
Manaka Iwami as Asumi Suidō
Yui Makino as Mari Sakuragi
Nanami Tomaru as Kinako
Hitomi Nabatame as Sakiko Tsuzuragawa
Taiten Kusunoki as Gori Suidō
Sayaka Ohara as Kanae Suidō
Sōma Saitō as Kunai
Atsushi Imaruoka as Yamamori
Eri Kitamura as Lucky
Yōji Ueda as Hiroki Shirakaba
Rina Hidaka as Kozue Shirakaba
Yūichi Nakamura as Wataru Tsukushi
Yumiri Hanamori as Kana Shishido
Hiroya Egashira as Kaoru Shindō
The newly announced employees are:
Animation Directors: Akira Takata, Kiminori Itō, Majiro
Assistant Director: Hidetoshi Takahashi
Recommended Design: Akira Takata
Graphic Designer: Hideki Kawahara , Megumi Soeno
Artistic Design: Yoshinori Shiozawa
Art Director: Minami Kasuga
Color Key Artist: Kazuko Nakashima
2D Design: Aya Kubota
Special Effects: Ayaka Shimizu
CG Director: Katsuaki Miyaji
General Director of Photography: Yūya Sakuma
Editor: Akinori Mishima
Sound Director: Yoshikazu Iwanami
The anime will premiere with an hour-long special on Tokyo MX, Tochigi TV, Gunma TV, and BS11 channels on January 5 at 24:00.
Naokatsu Tsuda (director of the first four seasons of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, director of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind) is directing the anime at CloverWorks. Nitroplus’ Vio Shimokura is writing and supervising the series’ scripts. FiFS (composed of Shuji Sogabe and Kanako Nono) is designing the characters, and Takahiro Kishida (Baccano !, Durarara!!, Haikyu!!) is adapting those designs for animation. Hideyuki Fukasawa (Fate / stay night: Unlimited Blade Works, Flowers of Evil)) is composing the music.
Anime stars:
Junya Enoki as Shūta Aoi
Yūma Uchida as Ran Akagi
Kaito Ishikawa as Koki Suidō
The anime takes place on a floating man-made island in Tokyo Bay, named “Kyokutō Hōreigai Tokubetsu Chiku” (Outlawed Far Eastern Special District), nicknamed the “24th Ward.” The series revolves around three childhood friends born and raised on the island: Ran, Koki, and Shuta. The three have different social views, interests, and personalities, but they always hang out together. But their relationships will change dramatically after a certain incident.
At a memorial service a year after the incident, the three run into each other by chance, and their phones all start ringing at the same time. The phone call was from a friend they thought was dead, urging them to “choose a future.” Each young person will believe in their own way to protect the future of the people of Ward 24.
