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Tasuketsu, a psychological suspense / battle action manga about young people forced into a deadly survival game, is being adapted into a TV anime that will broadcast in 2024, and a teaser video (below), a teaser visual, the main staff, and the main cast have been announced for the production. The cast for Tasuketsu includes: Saneatsu Narita voiced by Yuto Uemura Saaya Fujishiro voiced by Anna Nagase Ryuuta Ichinose voiced byKazukiUra Kazuhiko Satou voiced by Koki Osuzu Omi Jin voiced by Shiori Mikami Eren Kunashiri voiced byYuki NakashimaTojuro Yagihashi voiced by Daisuke Ono Ryouhei Sudou voiced by Jun Kasama Soutarou Shinozaki voiced by Shuta Morishima Ren Iruga voiced by Kenn Hisoka Midou voiced byKenjiro TsudaEmperorvoiced byYuka TerasakiThe original Tasuketsu manga by Taiga Miyakawa is serialized by ComicSmart in their Ganma! digital manga magazine.Tatsuo Satowrites and directs the TV anime adaptation at animation studioSatelight.

The Branchage Film Festival is bringing a special event to London next month and if you fancy something a bit different and arty then it might be worth checking out! We’ve been sent over the press release for the special event combining images and music to delirious effect.

Canadian artistDaniel Barrowwill be performing his latest work Every Time I See Your Picture I Cry in Shoreditch Church as part of ‘Branchage Projects:Daniel Barrow+ Bo Ningen’. See press release below for full lowdown. Tickets cost £12 quid and the thing’s taking place inside Shoreditch Church. Interesting.

“From the dark of the audience,Daniel Barrowworks his antiquated overhead projector, moving layers of immaculate illustrations through its beam while he narrates along; flickering on the screen, a strange and dark story unfolds, the tale of a deadbeat dustman and an inventive serial killer… This award-winning ‘manual animation’ and live narration performance is intimate,...

As if they didn't have enough problems in Japan, where movies suggest a giant lizard periodically destroys Tokyo, now the Japanese have another creature to add to their to-fear list: bears. At least 80 people have been wounded in bear attacks--and four killed--just between the months of April and September. And what's to blame for this season's bear madness? Climate change, of course.Well, it's a bit more complicated than headlnes suggest. A Japanese official,Tatsuo Sato,said that "the extremely hot summer and other climatic factors may have led to a shortage of acorns or nuts in woodlands this year." Also, changing land use patterns--the destruction of some habitats, and the restoration of others--have reduced buffer zone between residential areas and the bears' natural habitat.Even this late in the season, the brushes with bears have been continuing. Cops pursued a bear today in Fukuchiyama after it turned up in a residential area.