Takashi Itsuki, Hisaya Shiraiwa's Ganglion Manga Gets TV Anime Debuting on October 3

Ayumu Watanabe directs anime starring Yōji Ueda, Fumihiko Tachiki, Tomokazu Sugita, more

A website opened on Friday to announce that author Hisaya Shiraiwa and illustrator Takashi Itsuki's Ganglion manga is getting a television anime adaptation that will debut on October 3. The anime will air on TV Tokyo, TV Osaka, AT-X, and BS Yoshimoto.

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 Kogyo

• 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

Itsuki drew an illustration to commemorate the announcement.

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.

Sources: Ganglion anime's website, Comic Natalie