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Mars Red Anime Reveals 5 More Cast
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Sachi Kokuryu cast
The official website for the television MARS RED dramatic stage reading productions revealed five more cast on Friday.
The new cast includes: (from left to right in above image:
- Ayahi Takagaki as Misaki, the actress playing the protagonist in "Salome"
- Makoto Furukawa as Rufus Glenn, a mysterious Englishman
- Fumiko Orikasa as Aoi Shirase, Kurusu's childhood friend and a reporter
- Hiroshi Yanaka as Sōnosuke Nakajima, a lieutenant general
- Sachi Kokuryu as Shinnosuke Tenmaya, the head of the Tenmaya employment agency
The story features the of the "Code Zero" unit, and stars:
- Tasuku Hatanaka as Shutaro Kurusu, an A-class vampire and rookie on the squad
- Junichi Suwabe as Yoshinobu Maeda, captain of Code Zero and the “most powerful human”
- Akira Ishida as Takeuchi, a D-class vampire and mad scientist with an immortal brain
- Kenichi Suzumura as Suwa, a veteran vampire since the Edo era
The "Code Zero" unit also includes Tokuichi Yamagami, a smart vampire (not currently ranked).
Yomiuri TV Enterprise, describes the story:
MARS RED takes place in 1923, and vampires have existed for quite a while. But now, the number of vampires is increasing and a mysterious, artificial blood source called Ascra has appeared.
The Japanese government, in turn, creates “Code Zero,” a unit within the army tasked with taking down the vampiric forces. And what better way to track vampires than by using vampires?
Created by Lieutenant General Nakajima, this unit has historically been in the business of information war, but has been re-assigned to solve the vampire crisis. It's up to Code Zero and the S-class vampire Deffrot to investigate this increase and put a stop to it before society crumbles.
In This Corner of the World) is composing the music.
The first stage production of MARS RED debuted in 2013, with more shows in 2015 and 2017. Karakara Monthly Comic Garden magazine on January 4.
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