The official blog for Project Anima announced on Monday that Kanon Obata will voice the role of the heroine Memenpu in Sacks&Guns!! , Satelight 's anime of Nekotarō Inui's Sakugan Labyrinth Marker (Drilling Labyrinth Marker) novel. Obata and Project Anima staff took a photograph featuring a standee depicting Memenpu (seen below).

1,400 people applied in the auditions for the heroine role, including 300 professional applicants and 1,100 amateur applicants. 10 judges chose Obata, a college student, from among seven finalists.

The visual below depicts the underground colony of Pinyin, where the father Gagamba and his daughter Memenpu — the story's protagonists — live.

Toshiyuki Toyonaga and Hikaru Midorikawa will star in the anime.

Jun'ichi Wada ( WorldEnd , Caligula ) is directing the anime at Satelight . Yuji Iwahara ( King of Thorn , Darker than Black , Dimension W ) is the original character designer. Stanislas Brunet ( Macross Delta ) is the mechanical designer. Kazumi Kōda ( NieR: Automata ) is the concept designer. Yūri Shibamura ( Marginal Operation ) is credited for scenario cooperation. Eriko Kimura is the sound director at Tohokushinsha Film Corporation .

The anime is slated for a 2020 broadcast.

Project Anima accepted story submissions from the general public through DeNA 's MangaBox, Everystar, and similar user-submitted content platforms. DeNA , Sotsu Co., Ltd. , Nippon Cultural Broadcasting , and MBS hosted competitions in three categories. Inui's Sakugan Labyrinth Marker novel was the runner-up in the "Science-Fiction/Robot" category. (The judges did not award the novel a grand prize.) The contest also had an "Alternate World/Fantasy" and "Kids/Game" categories.

Sources: Project Anima's blog, MoCa News