OX / official twitter from the anime series adaptation of the manga Tasuketsu in Taiga Miyakawa announced that the series will take a 2-week break. Episode 5 will air on August 13th.
The reason for the stoppage was not revealed, but it could be related to the television coverage of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, which will take place from July 26 to August 11, 2024.
The animation is from the studio Satellite (Helck, Macross Frontier, Aquarion), the direction is by Tatsuo Satō (Martian Successor Nadesico, Lagrange – The Flower of Rin-ne) which will be assisted by Tōru Hamazaki (episode direction for JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean, Katana Maidens: Toji no Miko). Character design is by Nami Hayashi (animation direction of Black Clover) and the music is the responsibility of RON (FLCL Alternative, The Slime Diaries).
In the cast we have:
- Yūto Uemura as Saneatsu Narita
- Anna Nagase as Saaya Fujishiro
- Kazuki Ura as Ryūta Ichinose
- Kouki Ohsuzu as Kazuhiko Satō
- Shiori Mikami as Omi Jin
- Yuki Nakashima as Eren Kunashiri
- Daisuke Ono as Tōjūrō Yagihashi
- Jun Kasama as Ryōei Sudō
- Shūta Morishima as Sōtarō Shinozaki
- KENN as Ren Iruga
- Kenjiro Tsuda as Hisoka Midō
- Yuka Terasaki as Emperor
The manga Tasuketsu in Taiga Miyakawa was among the top 10 in the “manga we want to see animated” ranking at events AnimeJapan 2019 It is AnimeJapan 2020.
The first part of the manga Tasuketsu was released in 2021 and ended in 2014, its second part, Tasuketsu: FINAL KEQbegan to be published in 2015 and ended in 2017. Its third part, Tasuketsu: Judgement Assizesbegan to be published in November 2017
Tasuketsu previously inspired the short anime Tasuketsu: Judgment Assizeswhich was funded through a crowdfunding campaign on Campfire in 2020. The short anime was released in January 2021 and had a different cast from this new project.
Synopsis of Tasuketsu
The story follows a group of five people in a world where people have suddenly disappeared. A mysterious self-proclaimed “Emperor” gathers five people through anonymous messages and has them participate in a game. Participants answer the question “Do you want to live or die?” The game has only one rule: “Most die.”
