The official Japanese website for the upcoming TV anime adaptation of Sui Ishida’s Tokyo Ghoul:redark fantasy manga series today posted a first main visual and a 60-second first PV introducing its main characters and their voice cast. It is also confirmed the Pierrot-produced adaptation is set to premiere in Japan in April 2018.
Tokyo Ghoul:re, the second main series of Ishida’s Tokyo Ghoul manga series has been serialized in Sueisha’s Weekly Young Jump since October 2014, after the first series ended its three-year serialization with 143 chapters in the magazine. It has released 13 tankobon volumes and has become one of the top-selling manga series in Japan.
1st key visual
1st PV
Main characters/VAs
Haise Sasaki/Natsuki Hanae (Ken Kaneki in Tokyo Ghoul)
Kuki Urie/Kaito Ishikawa (Tobio Kageyama in Haikyu!!)
Ginshi Shirazu/Yuuma Uchida (Hayate Immelmann in Macross Delta)
Toru Mutsuki/Natsumi Fujiwara (Rei Kisaki in Aikatsu Stars!)
Saiko Yonebayashi/Ayane Sakura (Cocoa in Is This Order a Rabbit?)
TV anime “Tokyo Ghoul:re” main staff:
Director: Toshinori Watanabe (Naruto Shippuden)
Screenplay/Series Composition: Chuji Mikasano (Tokyo Ghoul)
Character Designer: Atsuko Nakajima (You’re Under Arrest, Hakiouki)
Anime Production: Pierrot (Naruto, Bleach)
Anime Production Cooperation: Pierrot+ (Re-kan!, The Morose Mononokean)
For those unfamiliar with Tokyo Ghoul, the series was original created by Sui Ishida. The story follows Ken Kaneki, a student who survives an encounter with his date, who turns out to be a ghoul. Kaneki’s world is filled with Ghouls, beings who eat humans, and they’ve been living among humans in secret. After surviving this attack he wakes up to realize that he himself has become a ghoul because of a surgery that implanted organs from the ghoul who attacked him. In order to live somewhat a normal life, Kaneki needs to eat human flesh to survive. Luckily he’s taken in by a group of ghouls at the cafe Anteiku, who help him reintegrate into society.
The series first began in Shueisha’s Weekly Young Jump and ran from 2011 to 2014, and has been collected into 14 volumes. The series was adapted into two anime series. Its first season from Studio Pierrot ran for 12 episodes from July to September 2014, and the sequel, Tokyo Ghoul Root A, followed an original story and also ran for 12 episodes from January to March 2015. The manga was licensed for an English language release from Viz Media, and the anime was licensed by Funimation. The sequel manga, Tokyo Ghoul:re, began in 2014 and is set two years after the events of the original manga.
Will you be watching Tokyo Ghoul:re?