This weekend many new trailers and promos were revealed at AnimeJapan 2017. Included in the list of exciting upcoming releases is the new movie from the No Game, No Life franchise titled No Game No Life Zero. The film showed off not only its first promo video, but also officially announced the staff, cast, characters, and release date as well. The new promo teases an epic war, new characters, and beautiful music
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The new film is going to feature the same main characters from the television series that the movie is based off of, and much of the staff will be the same. No Game No Life Zero’s cast includes:
- Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Riku, the young leader of a human enclave
- Ai Kayano as Shuvi, a mechanized girl who meets Riku
- Yลko Hikasa as Corone Dora, a girl from Riku’s enclave and the self-proclaimed sister-in-law of Riku
- Yukari Tamura as Jibril, a girl of the Flรผgel race
- Yuka Iguchi as Nonna Zell, a girl from Riku’s enclave
- Mamiko Noto as Shinku Nilvalen, the head of the noble Elf family Nilvalen
- Miyuki Sawashiro as Izuna Hatsuse
- Rie Kugimiya as Teto
The director from the original anime series, Atsuko Ishizuka, will be returning to direct the film at Madhouse. The script will be written by Jukki Hanada, and character design by Satoshi Tasaki. Concept art is done by Kazuhiro Hocchi, with Eiji Iwase as the art director, and Tsukasa Ohira will be in charge of the background art. Yoshiaki Fujisawa is going to be composing the beautiful music.
Included with all of this new information is the fantastic new promo image below, as well as the official release of July 15 2017.
No Game, No Life started as a Light novel series in 2012 by Yuu Kamiya. It was then adapted for television and the anime premiered in 2014.
If you are unfamiliar with the No Game, No Life franchise, American anime distributor Crunchyroll describes the series as the following:
They are both NEETs and Hikikomorisโฆ but on the internet, the genius gamer siblings Sora and Shiro are known as the undefeatable “__” (blank). Sora and Shiro’s talents and skills are so abnormally good they are considered as urban legend. One day a young boy Teto appears before them, claiming to be “One’s Lord”.
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