Hero Bank
The recently announced companion anime series to the 3DS game Hero Bank has had some new information revealed courtesy of SEGA themselves. The newest update brings us the full cast list as well as the team behind the adaptation. The show is set to be directed by Yasutaka Yamamoto,who has directed a number of shos including Problem Children Are Coming From Another World, Aren’t They? and Servant x Service of recent note. Series composition has Tomioka Atsuhiro tackling that job who has a lengthy list of credits with shows of this nature and others, from Disgaea to Battle Spirits and a whole lot of Inuzuma Eleven. The animation is being handled by TMS Animation.
The game, which is spinning off a manga adaptation as well in Monthly Corocoro Comic, has a planned Spring 2014 premiere on April 7th at 6:30pm. The push to promote the game through ancillary means is fairly standard these days and has grown immensely over the years, especially when there are hopes of achieving overseas successes through it.
- Yuko Sanpei as Kaito Kōshō
- Hiroshi Kamiya as Nagare Amano
- Miyuki Sawashiro as Mitsuo Zaizen
- Kazuya Nakai as Fukuta Kanemaru
- Banjou Ginga as Sennen
- Houko Kuwashima as Ai Kōshō
- Yuka Komatsu as Hikari Takarano
- Kenyuu Horiuchi as Junshu Adachi
- Bin Shimada as Kurayasu Kōshō
- Yu Kobayashi as Isshin Kaimei
- Tetsu Inada as Tetsunosuke Kinnari
- Hisao Egawa as Shishio Torai
- Ryotaro Okiayu as Debora Kizaki
- Ryota Takeuchi as Rohan Yuri
- Ayumi Fujimura as Sen Tatsuzato
- Shiori Izawa as Mashiro Kyōshī
- Shintarō Ōda as Jikkyō
Game concept: The game centers around Kaito, an elementary school boy who is suddenly burdened with 10 billion yen (about US$100 million) in debt one day. The only way he can pay off the debt is to master “Hero-Gi” (downloaded off the net) and win matches in “Hero Battle,” a new-generation cyber sport. The tagline of the game “Change your money with justice!”
[Source: ANN]