The official website of the animated television adaptation of manga Chuukan Kanriroku Tonegawa by Tomohiro Hashimoto (drawing) and Tensei Hagiwara (script) has revealed that the ending of the series will be the theme "Okitegami", played by Pistol Takehara. It also leaves us with a new promotional image that can be seen accompanying these lines.
The series will premiere on July 4 at 1:59 on the AnichU block of NTV, consisting of six months of broadcast.
It joins the cast announced to date:
- Toshiyuki Morikawa as Yukio Tonegawa
- Masato Hagiwara as Kaiji Ito (resumes his role from the anime Kaiji)
- Wataru Hatano as Kenji Yamazaki
- Nobunaga Shimazaki as Jiro Saemonsaburo
- Taku Yashiro as Ebitani
- Kotaro Nishiyama as Toshimasa Kawasaki
- Daiki Hamano as Nakata
- Takuya Eguchi as Koji Doshita
- Kengo Kawanishi as Junichi Hagio
- Takaya Aoyagi as Kikuchi
- Chiharu Sawashiro as Nagata
- Rena Maeda as Saeko Nishiguchi
- Masatane Tsukayama as Kazuta Hyodo
Keiichiro Kawaguchi (Sket Dance, Frame Arm Girls) will direct the anime under the Madhouse animation studio. Mitsutaka Hirota (Digimon adventure tri.) Will be responsible for the scripts, while Haruhito Takada (Kaiji, Claymore) will be the character designer and chief animation director. Takahiro Yamada (BONJOUR Sweet Love Patisserie) will compose the music counting on Kisuke Koizumi as the sound director under HALF H · P STUDIO. Harue Ono will take care of the color and Mariko Tsukatsune of the edition.
The series is a spinoff of the Kaiji manga of Nobuyuki Fukamoto, with its protagonist Tonegawa, the right hand of Kazutaka Hyoudou, president of the Teiai Corporation and organizer of several tournaments where he bets. When Hyoudou becomes bored with his life, he orders Tonegawa to organize a "death game," so he and his subordinates will have to try to keep the president buzzing, leading to a lot of comic interactions between the two and other characters the Serie.
The manga premiered in June 2015 in the pages of the Monthly Young Magazine of Kodansha, counting for the moment with six volumes compilations.
