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Seattle's Sakura-Con Hosts World Premiere of Caligula Anime

The official website for Seattle's Sakura-Con convention is listing that it will host the world premiere of the Chiharu Sawashiro (who plays protagonist Ritsu Shikishima), will attend the screening.

The anime will premiere on A Centaur's Life) is in charge of series composition.

In FuRyu's original The Caligula Effect game's story, written by Tadashi Satōmi, a virtual idol known as μ performs -inputted songs and gains self-awareness through exposure to s' bitter feelings and dissatisfaction toward reality. Wanting to save humanity — which she believes is continuously suffering — she lures people to a virtual reality world called Mobius with her songs. She then imprisons them in Mobius, thinking they will be free from the suffering of reality and that all their wishes will come true. The game follows the nine of the "Going Home Club," a club that was formed because the characters want to escape from Mobius and go home. The game's title refers to the "Caligula Effect," which is a pattern of behavior where one wants to see or do something more if it is denied to them.

The convention will be held at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle from March 30 to April 1. Other guests at this year's event Yōsuke Shiokawa.