Ganglion TV Anime Unveils Ending Song in Promo Video

Yōji Ueda stars in October 3 anime about working in company bent on world domination

The official website for the television anime of author Hisaya Shiraiwa and illustrator Takashi Itsuki's Ganglion manga debuted the anime's official promotional video on Tuesday. The video announces and previews the ending theme song "Miracle" by the group NIKO NIKO TAN TAN.

The anime will debut on October 3 on the AT-X channel at 8:30 p.m JST, and on TV Tokyo at 25:53 JST (effectively, October 4 at 1:53 a.m. JST). The anime will then air on October 4 on BS Yoshimoto at 10:55 p.m. JST, and on TV Osaka on October 7.

The anime stars (character name romanizations are not confirmed):

• Yōji Ueda as Kenji Isobe

• Fumihiko Tachiki as Colonel Shadow (real name: Jin Kageyama)

• Tomokazu Sugita as HOPEMAN

• Aoi Koga as Setsuko Isobe

• Yoshino Aoyama as Takashi Isobe

• Hikaru Tōno as Komiko

• Itsuji Itao as Old Man at the Food Stall

The anime's staff includes:

• Planning: Yoshimoto Kōgyō

• Script: Harise

• Director: Ayumu Watanabe

• Assistant Director: Ryōsuke Tanaka

• Character Designer, Chief Animation Director: Shigeru Fujita

• Storyboards: Ryōsuke Tanaka, Takuji Mmiyamoto, Masayuki Miyaji, Yutaka Yamamoto, Hyūga Yamamura, Shin'ichirō Ushijima, Megumi Soga, Yujiro Abe

• Series Composition: Tomoaki Shiono (name romanization not confirmed)

• Color Design: Naomi Nakano

• Art Director: Yoshihiro Nakamura

• Director of Photography: Tomoya Yokoyama

• Animation Director: Fūka Niida

• CG Director: Takumi Mukai

• Editing: Kiyoshi Hirose

• Music: Takeo Asami

• Music Production: INSPION

• Sound Director: Kisuke Koizumi

• Sound Production: INSPION Edge

• Animation: Noboru Fukae

• Animation Production: studio maf

• Cooperation: Yoshimoto Broad Entertainment

• Production: Ganglion Production Committee

Yoshimoto Books published the one-volume manga in 2009. The manga is a work-related drama set in Tokyo in the early 2000s, and centers on Isobe, a fighter for "Ganglion Co, Ltd.," a company plotting world domination. Isobe takes on missions like the "Blow Up Mt. Fuji Operation" or the "Tokyo Cedar Pollen Operation," but is easily defeated each time by Hopeman. Isobe must also deal with his superiors' unreasonable demands.

Source: Ganglion anime's website via Ota-Suke