Promotional Web Anime "EYEDROPS" Gains Eri Kitamura as a Cast Member

The first part of “Osoikuru Shikyaku, Kakumaku Daikessen!”/ “An attacking assassinator, the cornea final battle!” has officially been released and more details have been released for the Santen Pharmaceuticals’ promotional web anime project, “EYEDROPS”

In the first episode for the two-part series, there were two new cast/characters introduced for the work. With the second part of the series, it will be making its appearance later on this month. In the beginning of the project, ten other characters were introduced and each one represents the active ingredients included in eye drops.

For the new cast there is Miyuki Sawashiro, who is known to have played a role in the “Durarara!!” series as Celty Sturluson, will be playing as flavin adenine dinucleotide sodium.

With her is the voice behind Ryuuji Sugurio in “Blue Exorcist” Kazuya Nakai to play as new villain Baron Menidamage.

As for the rest of the cast, they include:

Flavin adenine dinucleotide sodium (CV: Miyuki Sawashiro)
Baron Menidamage (Kazuya Nakai)
Theme song “Mega Megasukashion” MV by Emiri Kato (vitamin B12)
Taurine (CV: Eri Kitamura)
Neostigmine methylsulfate (Yoko Hikasa)
Vitamin B6 (Mamiko Noto)
Vitamin B12 (Emiri Kato)
Potassium L‐aspartate (Risa Hayamizu)
Tetrahydrozoline hydrochloride (Yu Kobayashi)
Chlorpheniramine maleate (Yuka Iguchi)
Epsilon-aminocaproic acid (Sumire Uesaka)
Sodium chondroitin sulfate (Sakura Tange)
Dipotassium glycyrrhizinate (Asumi Kana)

Set in a world where there exists a fictional planet named “EYE.” In this planet there lives 11 girls whose aims is to fight to keep the planet’s health, viewers can also learn the mechanism of eyes and the importance of eye care.

When the project was introduced in the previous year, it was in September that four episodes to promote the company’s eye drops products and how to care for one’s eyes was released. The videos which consist of a two-minute prologue named “Episode 0: Planet EYE,” a five-minute first episode called “We Protect the Tired EYE!”, and a 110-second music video for the project’s theme song “Me ga Megasukashion” provided by DECO*27 and sung by Emiri Kato (vitamin B12) can all be found on its official YouTube channel.

Sanrio Pharmaceuticals, fully known as Santen Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd is described as a Japanese pharmaceutical company, specializing in ophthalmology and rheumatology medicines.

Source: Crunchyroll News