Germany's Universal Pictures has announced the license of the 2016 Berserk TV anime, and with it listed that the series will run 24 episodes. The series is slated to run on the MBS late-night Animeism block and satelite broadcast WOWOW starting in July. Shin Itagaki (Ben-To, mastermind of the Teekyu anime) helms the LIDEN FILMS production, with Psycho-Pass' Makoto Fukami in charge of writing series composition.

Director: Shin Itagaki

Series configuration: Makoto Fukami

Series configuration assistant: Takashi Yamashita

Main Character Design: Hisashi Abe

Music: Shirō Sagisu

Insert song: Susumu Hirasawa

Production: LIDEN FILMS

Animation production: GEMBA / millepensee



Cast:

Guts: Hiroaki Iwanaga

Puck: Kaoru Mizuhara

Farnese: Yōko Hikasa

Serpico: Kazuyuki Okitsu

Isidro: Hiro Shimono

Azan: Hiroki Yasumoto

Casca: Toa Yukinari

Griffith: Takahiro Sakurai

Skull Knight: Akio Ōtsuka

Narration: Unshou Ishizuka

via WTK and animania.de

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