The official website for the animation “Ajin”, the anime /film trilogy by the author “Gamon Sakurai”, has a new promotional video. The video reveals the films' cast, and also that the first film arrives in Japan in November this year.
Hiroyuki Seshita – Knights of Sidonia ( Sidonia no Kishi ) is serving as the film's chief animation director, Hiroaki Ando Episodes of Knights of Sidonia ( Sidonia no Kishi ) is directing both films at Polygon Pictures studio. Hiroshi Seko (Attack on Titan) is supervising the script, Yuki Moriyama (Psycho-Pass, Bizarre Adventure JoJo: Stardust Crusaders) is working on the soundtrack.
The story follows a high school student named “Kei Nagai” who ends up dying instantly in a traffic accident on his way home from school. However, he is revived, and a high price must be paid for it. New immortal life forms began to appear among humans, and became known as “Ajin” (demo-humans).
The manga Ajin – Demi-Human began to be published in 2012 in the magazine good! Afternoon. The sixth volume was released in May. In total, the manga already has 3 million and 200 thousand units in circulation in Japan.