Psyren Episode 2 to Make World Debut at Hollywood Festival With Creator in Attendance
The October 3 event at Hollywood’s Chinese Theater will also host the first episode’s West Coast premiere.
Global Stage Hollywood will premiere Psyren’s second anime episode on October 3, with creator Toshiaki Iwashiro attending. The series begins airing in Japan on October 4.
Global Stage Hollywood confirmed to ANN on Thursday that Psyren’s second television anime episode will have its world premiere on October 3. The screening will take place at the Global Stage Hollywood Film Festival at the Chinese Theater in Hollywood, California.
The event will also present the first episode’s West Coast premiere. The company told ANN that Toshiaki Iwashiro, who created the original manga, will attend.
The anime premieres on Tokyo MX and BS11 on October 4 at 11:00 p.m., with Sun TV airing it later that evening. Crunchyroll will stream the series worldwide outside Japan and China.
The cast includes:
- Rikuya Yasuda as Ageha Yoshin
- Mayuko Kazama as Sakurako Amamiya
- Shunsuke Takeuchi as Hiryu Asaga
- Sōma Saitō as Oboro Mochizuki
- Yukihiro Nozuyama as Kabuto Kirisaki
- Yūko Kaida as Matsuri Yagumo
- Nobuyuki Hiyama as Dolkey
The production staff includes:
- Director Katsumi Ono at Satelight, whose credits include Symphogear AXZ, Symphogear G, Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's and Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V.
- Series script supervisor Shin Yoshida, whose credits include Naruto Shippūden, Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's and Yu-Gi-Oh! GX.
- Character designer Akira Ōkuma, whose credits include Rascal Does Not Dream of Santa Claus and Demon Lord, Retry! R.
The composers are:
- Takashi Ōmama, whose credits include Mobile Suit Gundam Twilight AXIS and Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury.
- Tatsuhiko Saiki, whose credits include My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! and I Parry Everything.
- Shū Kanematsu, whose credits include My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! and The Café Terrace and Its Goddesses.
CLAN QUEEN performs “Warning!!,” the opening theme song.
REMOW’s synopsis follows high school student Ageha Yoshina, who discovers a mysterious “red phone card” someone left in a public telephone booth. Days later, his childhood friend and classmate Sakurako Amamiya disappears without a trace. She had an identical card.
While searching for Sakurako, Ageha becomes entangled in rumors about mysterious disappearances across the country. A secret organization called “Psyren” is said to be responsible. Contacting the group draws him into a deadly game that will forever alter his fate.
REMOW said the anime will adapt the entire manga, including its ending.
Iwashiro’s Psyren ran in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump from 2007 to 2010. Viz Media published all 16 volumes in English between 2011 and 2014.
Sources: Email correspondence via ANN
