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Cop Craft Anime Casts Fumiko Orikasa, Kenji Hamada, Ryousuke Takahashi
posted on by Jennifer Sherman
The official website for Shoji Gatoh's Cop Craft Dragnet Mirage Reloaded light novel series, revealed additional cast and character visuals on Thursday.
The newly announced cast are:
Satoshi Tsuruoka will also play Alexander Godunov, but the website did not reveal designs for the character. The character shares his name with a late Russian-American ballet dancer, but it is unclear if the connection was intentional.
As previously announced, the anime stars:
The anime will premiere this summer.
Range Murata's original character designs for animation.
The story is set in San Teresa City on the fictional Pacific island of Kariaena. The "buddy police action" series follows the detective Kei Matoba and the alternate-world knight Tirana.
15 years ago, an unknown hyperspace gate opened over the Pacific. Beyond this gate lies Reto Semaani, a strange alternate world where fairies and demons live.
San Teresa City — a city where over two million immigrants live from both worlds. As a result, there are the haves and the have-nots. Here is the world's newest "city of dreams." But in the shadow of the chaos, crime is rampant: drugs, prostitution, and weapon trafficking. The detectives who stand up to these heinous crimes are in the San Teresa City Police. When the detective Kei Matoba and the alternate-world knight Tirana — two individuals who differ in gender, personality, and even world of origin — meet, an incident erupts. Two worlds. Two justices. From this, the curtain rises on a buddy police action story!
Range Murata (Shogakukan's Gagaga Bunko imprint started publishing in November 2009. The seventh volume will ship in early summer.
Other stories by Gatoh that have inspired anime include Amagi Brilliant Park.
