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Code Geass Director's Active Raid Anime Adds More Cast, Story, Air Date

posted on by Karen Ressler
Kōsuke Toriumi, more cast for January 7 anime

The official website for the Active Raid: anime unveiled six more cast , an extended story summary, and air date on Thursday.

The anime will premiere on January 7 on Tokyo MX at 10:00 p.m. It will also air on other channels.

The new cast are:

Tōru Ohkawa as Yasuharu Funasaka, the captain of the Eighth Unit

Saori Ōnishi as Madoka Amano, an operator

Kōsuke Toriumi as "Kyōkai-san," a mechanic

The cast also features:

Nobunaga Shimazaki as Takeru Kuroki, a lieutenant who uses the Strike Intercepter Willware

Takahiro Sakurai as Sōichirō Sena, a lieutenant who uses the Elf Sigma Willware

Ari Ozawa as Asami Kazari, a genius 19-year-old lieutenant

Shizuka Ishigami as Haruka Hoshimiya, a sergeant

Masayo Kurata as Rin Yamabuki, the senior superintendent in charge of the Eighth Unit

Taishi Murata as Tomoki Hachijō, Kōki Training Academy's student council president

Yuka Aisaka as Hinata Yamabuki, Rin's little sister who lives with her, and Kōki Training Academy's student council member

Natsuki Hanae as Mythos, a handsome youth (true identity unknown)

Another character will be Liko, a maid who can be installed in every digital device from smartphones to PCs.

The story is set in a part of Tokyo that has descended into a quagmire. It follows the Special Public Security Division Third Mobile Assault Eighth Unit — popularly called "The Eighth" — who don powered armor "Willware" exoskeletons to counter the rise in crime. Assistant inspector Asami Kazari is assigned to The Eighth with the task of assessing the unit's status and reporting it to her superiors. But her true goal is to rehabilitate this sloppy, haphazard, justice-less group.

Prison School) is composing the music.

Yōzōra" (Clear Night Sky).

[Via Ota-Suke]


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