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Yōji Ueda stars in October 3 anime about working in company bent on world domination




On Tuesday, Ganglion manga's anime adaptation's official website released its promotional video. This video showcases and previews "Miracle," the ending theme song performed by NIKO NIKO TAN TAN, which was announced in the video.

On October 3rd, the anime will be shown for the first time on AT-X at 8:30 p.m JST and TV Tokyo at 1:53 a.m JST (which is actually October 4th). Then it will continue airing on BS Yoshimoto at 10:55 p.m JST and TV Osaka on October 7th.

The anime stars (character name romanizations are not confirmed):

- Yōji Ueda as Kenji Isobe
- Fumihiko Tachiki as Colonel Shadow (real name: Jin Kageyama )
- Tomokazu Sugita as HOPEMAN
- Aoi Koga as Setsuko Isobe
- Yoshino Aoyama as Takashi Isobe
- Hikaru Tōno as Komiko
- Itsuji Itao as Old Man at the Food Stall


The anime's staff includes:

- Planning: Yoshimoto Kōgyō
- Script: Harise
- Director: Ayumu Watanabe
- Assistant Director: Ryōsuke Tanaka
- Character Designer, Chief Animation Director: Shigeru Fujita
- Storyboards: Ryōsuke Tanaka , Takuji Mmiyamoto, Masayuki Miyaji , Yutaka Yamamoto , Hyūga Yamamura , Shin'ichirō Ushijima , Megumi Soga , Yujiro Abe
- Series Composition: Tomoaki Shiono (name romanization not confirmed)
- Color Design: Naomi Nakano
- Art Director: Yoshihiro Nakamura
- Director of Photography: Tomoya Yokoyama
- Animation Director: Fūka Niida
- CG Director: Takumi Mukai
- Editing: Kiyoshi Hirose
- Music: Takeo Asami
- Music Production: INSPION
- Sound Director: Kisuke Koizumi
- Sound Production: INSPION Edge
- Animation: Noboru Fukae
- Animation Production: studio maf
- Cooperation: Yoshimoto Broad Entertainment
- Production: Ganglion Production Committee


In 2009, Yoshimoto Books released a one-volume manga that focuses on work-related drama set in Tokyo during the early 2000s. The story revolves around Isobe, who works for "Ganglion Co, Ltd.," a company with global domination plans. Isobe undertakes various missions such as "Blow Up Mt. Fuji Operation" or "Tokyo Cedar Pollen Operation," but consistently loses to Hopeman. Additionally, Isobe must navigate unreasonable demands from his superiors.




Source: Ganglion anime's website ( link ) via Ota-Suke ( link )