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Goro Taniguchi's Estab-Life TV Anime Reveals Main Cast in Teaser

The official website for the Estab-Life original anime Back Arrow) posted a teaser promotional video for the project's television anime on Thursday. The video debuts the character voices for the first time, and thus announces the main cast:

The main cast are (in the order they appear in the teaser above):

• Tomomi Mineuchi as Ekua, the Nigashiya leader
• Rie Takahashi as Feresu, the superbly athletic, quick-firing "gun wizard"
• Maria Naganawa as Maruteese, a slime-human
• Shō Hayami as Aruga, an old fogey of an AI robot
• Shinichirō Miki as Urura, a wolfman who says nothing but "wan" (woof)

The project will have a television anime, smartphone game, and anime film, which have the themes of "escape," "records," and "variant," respectively. (The English subtitle for Estab-Life is "Establishment in Life.")

The story is set in the distant future when the world population has begun to shrink after reaching its peak. The "Supernatural Renovation Project" splits Tokyo with towering walls into several Cluster neighborhoods, each with its own unique genetically modified populations, governed by artificial intelligence.

Most people live their lives in their own unique Clusters, blissfully unconcerned with life beyond. However, there are some who seek to escape to the other Clusters. An outfit called Nigashiya helps those who wish to escape.

Taniguchi is credited for the original concept and creative supervision of the Cop Craft) is supervising and writing the scripts.