Online streaming platform Netflix appears bent on acquiring more anime for its enormous roster of TV shows. This time, the streaming platform has acquired the anime adaptation of Yumi Tamura’s 7SEEDS manga.
Netflix has first announced last November that the post-apocalyptic anime will premiere worldwide via the streaming platform on April 2019. Due to some delays in production, however, Netflix announced in March that the worldwide premiere will be moved to June 2019, two months after the original planned release.
Below are the confirmed cast for the series:
• Nao Tōyama as Natsu Iwashimizu
• Jun Fukuyama as Arashi Aota
• Katsuyuki Konishi as Semimaru Asai
• Yoko Soumi as Botan Saotome
• Kana Asumi as Matsuri Tendō
• Akira Ishida as Chimaki Yamori
• Aoi Yūki as Hotaru Kusakari
• Kazuhiko Inoue as Kaname Mozunoto
7SEEDS will be produced by GONZO and will be directed by Yukio Takahashi (Dog & Scissors). Series composition is handled by Touko Machida (The IDOLM@STER, Chaika the Coffin Princess, Harukana Receive), while Youko Satou (Dog & Scissors, Saiyuki Reload Blast, Kakuriyo – Bread and Breakfast for Spirits) will be handling character design.
The anime is described by Netflix as such:
”In the immediate future, a giant meteorite has collided with earth. All living organisms, including mankind, have been wiped off the face of the planet. The government, who had foreseen this outcome, took measures to counter the worst-case scenario called Project 7SEEDS, in which five sets of seven young men and women were carefully selected and placed into teams. Each participant sought ways to survive on a deserted island.
7SEEDS was first launched as a manga series by Yumi Tamura in 2001 in Bessatsu Shoujo Comic. It eventually moved to the Monthly Flowers magazine until the series’ end on May 2017. Tamura’s manga series released a total of 35 tankobon volumes, with the final one shipped last August 2017. The 7SEEDS manga series won the Shoujo category in the 52nd Annual Shogakukan Manga Awards in 2007, and just this April was nominated in the Comic category in the 49th Seiun Awards.
Source: Anime News Network