Yuuki Kaji, Ayane Sakura, Kaito Ishikawa star in story with art by Rental Magica's Pako

A television anime adaptation of Occultic;Nine , the first light novel series by MAGES. head Chiyomaru Shikura (Steins;Gate), has been green-lit for this year.

The "paranormal science" story follows nine idiosyncratic individuals, linked by the "Chōjō Kagaku Kirikiri Basara" occult summary blog run by 17-year-old second-year high school student Yūta Gamon. Little incongruities that occur around these nine eventually lead to a larger, unimaginable event that may alter what is considered common sense in this world.

The Tokyo MX and BS11 channels ran a commercial that announced the anime, and the anime's official website is also streaming a promotional video:







The anime's voice cast members are reprising their respective roles from the previously announced game adaptation:





Yuuki Kaji as Yūta Gamon, a high school boy who runs an occult blog and a self-proclaimed savior Ayane Sakura as Ryoka Narusawa, a spirit guide



Kaito Ishikawa as Sarai Hashigami, a denialist, ultra-realist first-year university student



Hitomi Yoshida as Miyū Aikawa, a moe fortune teller and first-year high school student



Shizuka Itou as Tōko Sumikaze, a reporter for the occult magazine Mumū (a nod to the real magazine Mū ), with a life outside occult interests



Miyuki Sawashiro as Aria Kurenaino, a black magic proxy



Kishô Taniyama as Kiryū Kusakabe, a mysterious man



Mamiko Noto as Ririka Nishizono, a future-predicting dōjin manga creator



Tetsuya Kakihara as Shun Moritsuka, a cosplay otaku detective





The novel series' original illustrator pako drew a teaser visual:

Shikura began the novel series with illustrations by Pako (Rental Magica, Un-Go) in August 2014, and the Overlap Bunko imprint published the second volume in May 2015.

While Shikura created Occultic;Nine , he emphasized in 2012 that it is not the fourth science-adventure title from 5pb. He did note that the novel can be considered the fourth Chiyomaru Shikura title after Chaos;HEAd, Steins;Gate, and Robotics;Notes. (Shikura eventually announced the fourth science-adventure title, CHAOS;CHILD , in 2013.)

The novel series already inspired a game adaptation and a manga series that Ganjii (Code Geass: Tales of an Alternate Shogunate) is serializing in Kodansha's good! Afternoon magazine.

Thanks to Dennis R and Kagayaki for the embedded videos

Source: MoCa