October gave us the reveal that the light novel Beatless from Satoshi Hase and redjuice is making the leap to the anime world with a TV series announced for the winter 2018 season. That’s now firmed up a bit more as the official site has updated to reveal a January 12th, 2017 premiere on the Animeism block on MBS and TBS as well as BS-TBS. It’s also getting streaming distribution around the world through Amazon Prime Video.
The project has set Seiji Mizushima as the director working from the series composition by Tatsuya Takahashi and Gou Zappa. Hiroko Yaguchi is on board as the character designer with Diomedea handling the animation. The original novel was serialized back in the summer of 2011 to summer 2012 before being compiled in October 2012.
Plot Concept: With the introduction of an ultra-advanced AI that surpasses human intelligence, beings that mankind is yet to fully comprehend made from materials far too advanced for human technology begin coming into being. Lacia, an hIE equipped with a black coffin-shaped device, is one of these. In boy-meets-girl fashion, 17-year-old Arato Endo has a fateful encounter with the artificial Lacia. For what purpose were these artificial beings created? Amid questions regarding the coexistence of these artificial beings and humans, a 17-year-old boy makes a decision…
[Source: ANN]