The Promised Neverland Anime Announces 10 More Cast Members
The official website for the television anime adaptation of Kaiu Shirai and Posuka Demizu's The Promised
Neverland (Yakusoku
no Neverland) manga revealed 10 more cast members for the series
on Sunday.
The
anime will premiere in January 2019 on Fuji TV's Noitamina block and stream
exclusively on Amazon Prime in Japan. In France, the
show will stream exclusively on Wakanim.
Mamoru Kanbe (Elfen
Lied, The
Perfect Insider) is directing the anime at A-1
Pictures' CloverWorks studio(PERSONA 5 the Animation). Toshiya Ono (Gatchaman
Crowds, The
Perfect Insider) is writing the series composition, Kazuaki Shimada (Mahou
Shoujo Nante Mouiidesukara.) is designing the characters for animation, and Takahiro Obata is composing the music.
The
new cast includes:
(Top row in image above)
·
Nao Fujita as Sister Krone
·
Yuko Kaida as Isabella/Mom
·
Shinei Ueki as Don
·
Lynn as Gilda
·
Shizuka Ishigami as Nat
(Bottom row
in image above)
·
Ai Kayano as Anna
·
Mari Hino as Thoma
·
Yuuko Mori as Lani
·
Ari Ozawa as Conny
·
Hiyori Kono as Phil
The previously
announced main cast includes: (Middle row)
·
Sumire Morohoshi (Rage of Bahamut: Virgin Soul 's Nina, Haikyu!!'s Yachi) as Emma
·
Maaya Uchida (Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma's Yūki Yoshino, Love, Chunibyo & Other
Delusions!'s
Rikka) as Norman
·
Mariya Ise (Made in Abyss's Reg, Fairy Tail's Levi) as Ray
The
band UVERworld will perform the
anime's opening theme song.
Viz Media is serializing the manga in its digital English
edition of Shonen Jump,
and is also publishing the volumes in print. The company shipped the sixth
volume on October 2, and the seventh volume will ship on December 4. Viz
Media describes the story:
The children of
the Grace Field House orphanage have their happy lives upended when they find
out they're being raised to be fed to demons. Can they escape their fate before
it's too late?
Shirai and
Demizu launched the manga in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in August
2016, and the series has entered its final arc as of September. Shueisha shipped
the manga's 11th compiled volume on November 2. The manga has more than 7
million copies in print worldwide, with more than 4.2 million copies
in print in Japan.
The manga won the
Best Shōnen Manga award at the 63rd Shogakukan Manga Awards in
January, was nominated for the 11th Manga Taisho awards in January,
and was nominated for the 22nd Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in
February. The series also topped the 2018 edition of Takarajimasha's Kono
Manga ga Sugoi! (This Manga Is Amazing!) guidebook's list of
manga for male readers last December.
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