Narrator, system operator cast for January anime based on smartphone rpg

Marvelous' official website for the Divine Gate television anime series announced on Thursday that Megumi Ogata (Evangelion's Shinji Ikari) will provide narration for the anime, and Yukana (Full Metal Panic!'s Tessa) will play a system operator. In addition Rie Kugimiya (Fullmetal Alchemist's Alphonse Elric) has joined the cast as a character named "Shonen K" (Boy K):

Previously announced cast members include:

Tetsuya Kakihara as Akane, the boy who lights flames



Sōma Saito as Aoto, the boy who controls water



Kanae Ito as Midori, the girl who tames wind



Ayana Taketatsu as Hikari, the girl who carries light



Sora Amamiya as Yukari, the girl who carries darkness



Hiroyuki Yoshino as Ginji, the boy who loves nothingness



Yūichi Nakamura as Arthur, the leader of "Kinghts of round"



Ami Koshimizu as Ifrit



Mai Fuchigami as Undine



Kana Asumi as Sylph



Yuri Yoshida as Metabon



Kousuke Toriumi as Lancelot



Akira Ishida as Oz



Koji Yusa as Loki



Natsue Sasamoto as Tristan

Binbin Takaoka as Gareth

Ayumu Murase as Bruno

KENN as Uwain

Yusuke Shirai as Percival

Kenji Nomura as Palomides

Azusa Tadokoro as Bedivere

Arisa Kiyoto as Kay

Chihiro Ikki as Lamorak

Rie Suegara as Mordred

Yūki Kuwahara as Gwain

Tomoyuki Shimura as Pavlov

Natsuki Hanae as Ariton

Aoi Yuki as Dorothy

Takahiro Sakurai as Santa Claus

The show will premiere on January 8. Funimation willstream the series as it airs with English subtitles and an English broadcast dub. The cast will host a preview screening of the first episode at Toho Cinemas Shinjuku in Tokyo on December 26.

Noriyuki Abe (The Heroic Legend of Arslan, Bleach , GTO) is directing the anime at Studio Pierrot, and Natsuko Takahashi (My Love Story!!, Moyashimon, Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan) is in charge of series composition. Ichiro Uno (The World is Still Beautiful) is designing the characters, and Takumi Ozawa (Aria the Scarlet Ammo, Okamikakushi - Masque of the Wolf) is composing the music. The group vistlip (Samurai Jam -Bakumatsu Rock-, Yona of the Dawn, Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's) is contributing the ending theme song "Contrust."

GungHo Online Entertainment and Acquire's original Divine Gate game is available for free download on iOS and Android. In the "panel RPG," players explore dungeons and solve puzzles to uncover panels and reveal treasure or monsters. The game has included more than 1,000 unique characters, including Steins;Gate characters as guest bosses.

[Via Moca News]