We learned about a month ago that the Ao Oni PC game is getting a big adaptation over the next year as it’s been revealed to get a TV series of shorts and a feature film. The TV series is scheduled for a fall 2016 broadcast while the film will land sometime in 2017. Asmik has now dropped the first promotional video for the series that has confirmed an October 2nd, 2016 debut on TV Tokyo while also revealing the main cast for the show. The TV series has set Toshirou Hamamura as the general director with Chisei Maeda handling the day to day directorial duties based on the series composition by Kanekoke. Studio Deen is working on the animation for both projects.
- Ryota Ohsaka as Hiroshi
- Takahiro Mizushima as Takurō
- Eri Kitamura as Mika
- Shūta Morishima as Takeshi
The TV series will work in the SD form that you can see to the right while the film will be an original story based on the game and novel that will go for a more serious approach.
Plot concept: A mansion away from the village, which no one lives, is rumored to have a ghost appearing. Hiroshi visited the mansion with his classmates Takurou, Takeshi, and Mika, and gets attacked by mysterious creature Ao Oni. Will they be able to get out of the mansion while solving various puzzles, or… will they become crazy and just live in this mansion with an Ao Oni like that!? A dare life of the four that gets played by Ao Oni starts now.
[Source: ANN]