"Beatless" Anime Takes a Break Starting Next Week Till September

The “Beatless” anime will not be reaching its end this season as the official website of the series announces a hiatus for the anime. The hiatus will begin on June 29, the release date of the “climactic” episode 20.

The anime will continue in September with the four-episode “Beatless Final Stage.” In the course of the series’ run, it has aired four “Intermission” compilation episodes.

The anime first made its debut on January 12 in the “Animeism” programming block. The series is directed by Seiji Mizushima, a director who is best known for having directed different classic anime including “Fullmetal Alchemist” and “Shaman King.” Go Zappa, who worked on the “Blend S” series, is the series composer of the anime. The character designer for the series is Hiroko Yaguchi, the designer of the “Aikatsu!” anime. As for the music of the series, it is composed by NARASAKI and kz (Livetune)

The story of the series set in a world where an ultra-advanced AI that surpasses human intelligence, beings made from materials far too advanced for human technology begin coming into being. One of these beings is Lacia, a hIE equipped with a black coffin-shaped device. Many questions surround these artificial beings. And the answers may be found starting with the fateful encounter between 17-year-old Arato Endo and the artificial Lacia.

The cast includes:

Takuto Yoshinaga as Arato Endo
Nao Tōyama as Lacia
Shino Shimoji as Saturnus
Sora Amamiya as Methode
Hiromi Igarashi as Snowdrop
Misako Tomioka as Kouka
Daiki Yamashita as Kengo Suguri
Emiri Suyama as Erika Burrows
Kaito Ishikawa as Ryo Kaidai
Saki Ono as Yuka Endo
Uki Satake as Shiori Kaidai
Yūki Wakai as Olga Suguri

“Beatless” began as a Japanese science fiction serial novel written by Satoshi Hase and illustrated by Redjuice. It was serialized in Kadokawa Shoten’s Newtype magazine in 2012 and then was followed by an English scanlation in Tokyo Otaku Mode in 2013. The novel has inspired three separate manga series. The first was titled “Beatless: Dystopia” and had two volumes published by Kagura Uguisu in Kadokawa’s shōnen manga magazine Monthly Shōnen Ace between 2012 and 2013. The next two spin-off work was titled “Ptolemy’s Singularity” and launched on Kadokawa’s Famitsu Comic Clear website on April 11, 2014

Source: AnimeNewsNetwork