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Toei, Gust's Augmented Reality Girls Trinary RPG App's Anime Promo Video Streamed
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Toei Animation began streaming an anime promotional video on Monday for it and Gust's Augmented Reality Girls Trinary (Kakuchō Shōjo-Kei Trinary) "anime cross-link role-playing game" smartphone collaboration project.
Gust and Toei Animation have also launched websites for the project's anime and game. The project's anime site reveals the cast and character designs for the five main heroines.
Mariko Takeda as Tsubame Ōse
Emi Hirayama as Kagura Uzuki
Yuki Yagi as Gabriella Talinska
Mitsuki Nakae as Ayami Kunimasa
Ami Hagihara as Miyabi Koigasaki
Other cast members include: Masumi Asano, Houko Kuwashima, Haruna Iwasaki, Ryohei Arai, and Atsushi Abe.
Akira Tsuchiya (Gust's Ar Tonelico, Ciel Nosurge) is producing the project and is also in charge of the original plan. Itsuro Kawasaki (Arc the Lad, Samurai Jam -Bakumatsu Rock-) is directing the anime side at studio feel. neco is designing the anime side's original characters, and Tomoyuki Shitaya (Bakuman.) and Masakazu Yamazaki (Medaka Box Abnormal) are adapting those characters for animation. Kazuho Hyodo (ReLIFE, Robot Girls Z) and Tsuchiya are handling the series composition. Takeshi Nakatsuka (Brothers Conflict) is composing the music. Toei Animation and Koei Tecmo Games are in charge of production.
The story centers on five girls who fight with a special mission in the plane of existence on the other side of the screen. The setting of the story is the metropolitan area of the Japanese capital, after it was beset by a certain abnormality.
The project will attempt an "unprecedented fusion of games and anime," and is the first such collaboration between Gust and Toei Animation. The companies will host a preview event on September 16 that will feature the project's main cast. The free event will take place at the Shinjuku Wald 9 theater in Tokyo, and Tsuchiya will appear at the event. After screening anime "episode 1," the event will feature stage greetings and a talk show segment with the guests.
