Starting last month, the Shaft-produced eight-OVA series has been adapting Nisio Isin's (Monogatari, Medaka Box) and Take's (his illustator collaborator on Katanagatari) The Kubikiri Cycle. Volume 2 is still out November 30th. Then, as announced today, it gets a bit delayed, with an extra month's gap before volume 3.

The new schedule continues:

Vol3： 1/25

Vol4： 2/22

Vol5： 3/29

Vol6： 4/26

Vol7： 5/24

Vol8： 6/28

Cast

Ii/Boku aka Nonsense Bearer - Yuki Kaji

The main protagonist and narrator of the Zaregoto Series. He is close friends with Tomo Kunagisa. His real name is never revealed.

Tomo Kunagisa - Aoi Yuuki

the heiress to the Kungisa household, a genius computer engineer and hacker, and a close friend of I.

Akane Sonoyama - Yu Shimamura (Attack on Titan's Annie)

a genius scholar and one of the Seven Fools in the ER3 System.

Kanami Ibuki - Ayako Kawasumi (Fate/stay night's Saber)

a genius painter, known for having no fixed style of painting.

Shinya Sakaki - Kenji Hamada (KuroBas' Teppei Kiyoshi)

the attendant of Kanami Ibuki

Maki Himena - Aya Endo (Macross F's Sheryl Nome)

a genius fortune-teller and Esper.

Yayoi Sashirono - Haruna Ikezawa

is a genius chef, and the longest-running guest of Wet Crow's Feather Island

Iria Akagami - Mariya Ise (Hunter x Hunter's Killua Zoldyck)

heiress of the Akagami Foundation, exiled to Wet Crow's Feather Island.

Rei Handa - Noriko Kuwashima

head maid who works for Iria Akagami on Wet Crow's Feather Island

Akari Chiga - Natsuko Kuwatani

one triplets who work as maids for Iria Akagami on Wet Crow's Feather Island.

Hikari Chiga - Ryoko Shintani

one triplets who work as maids for Iria Akagami on Wet Crow's Feather Island.

Teruko Chiga -Yuko Goto

the youngest of the triplets who work as maids for Iria Akagami on Wet Crow's Feather Island. She is Iria's bodyguard.

Jun Aikawa - Yūko Kaida

known as both the most powerful private contractor in the world and the world's greatest entrepreneur.

Staff

Original - Nisio Isin

Original character designs - Take

Series Director- Akiyuki Shinbo

Director - Yuki Yase (Hidamari Sketch × Honeycomb, episode director on Madoka Magica)

Composition- Tou Fuyashi (a joint pseudonym used by the studio) , Akiyuki Shinbo

Screenplay-Yukito Kizawa (Bakemonogatari, Nisekoi)

Character design and chief animation director - Akio Watanabe

Chief animation director - Hirofumi Suzuki (Madoka Magica ending)

Storyboard · okama

Music - Yuki Kajiura

Animation production shaft

Production and Aniplex / Kodansha / shaft

Theme "Cobolt World" is by Sangatsu no Phantasia, comprised of

- Vocal: Mia (@3_phantasia)

- Composer: Scop (@scopscop)

- Illustrator: Natsu Asami (@72desuyo)

- Composer: n-buna (@nabuna2)

- Composer: Yuuyu (@yuuyu_ssry)

- Composer: 40mp (@40mP)

- Composer: buzz-G (@buzz_g)

Ending "Marchen" is from Madoka vocalists Kalafina.

Vertical will be releasing the novel in North America.

They describe it

A dropout from an elite Houston-based program for teens is on a visit to a private island. Its mistress, virtually marooned there, surrounds herself with geniuses, especially of the young and female kind—one of whom ends up headless one fine morning.



The top-selling novelist year on year in his native Japan, prolific palindromic phenomenon NISIOISIN made his debut when he was only twenty with this Mephisto Award winner, a whodunit and locked-room mystery at once old-school and eye-opening. Previously published stateside by Del Rey, the translation has been retitled and revised just in time for the long-requested animated series based on illustrator take’s character concepts.





Coming in January -

NISIOISIN's DECAPITATION - Kubikiri Cycle -



Preorder it now at better book stores and online pic.twitter.com/sOilDa2Ogy — Vertical Inc. (@vertical_ed) November 21, 2016

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Scott Green is editor and reporter for anime and manga at geek entertainment site Ain't It Cool News. Follow him on Twitter at @aicnanime.