No Game No Life
With Seven Seas Entertainment having picked up the manga series, interest in the April 9th, 2014 debut of No Game No Life has certainly increased. We recently got a TV spot for the show which was our first taste of it property in some time, but now after the AnimeJapan 2014 trade show, a new two and a half minute promotional video for it has arrived. The anime adapts the light novels of the same name by Yuu Kamiya. Kamiya’s name should be a bit familiar as he was behind the art on A Dark Rabbit Has Seven Lives and began this series with himself as the writer and artist. Five volumes have been released so far and a manga adaptation began back in January with Mashiro Hiiragi handling the artwork for it.
The cast includes Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Sora, Ai Kayano as Shiro, Yoko Hikasa as Stephanie Dora, Yukari Tamura as Jibril, Yuka Iguchi as Clammy Shell, Mamiko Noto as Feel Nilvalen, Miyuki Sawashiro as Izuna Hatsuse and Rie Kugimiya as Teto.
Plot Concept: The internet is full of rumors about the Neet and Hikikomori genius gamer siblings Sora and Shiro. The two go as far as to refer to the world as a “shit game”, but then one day a young man calling himself “God” summons them to a parallel universe. There, God has forbidden war, and “everything is to be settled with games”. Yes, even the national borders. Driven into a corner by other species, the ‘human species’ is down to its last city. Can Sora and Shiro, these related failures of society, become the saviors of humankind in this parallel world?