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Trickster TV Anime Casts Yuichiro Umehara, Unveils Character Visuals

The official website of the Yūichirō Umehara as Ryō Inoue. The site also revealed character visuals for the anime.

Daiki Yamashita as Yoshio Kobayashi, a boy retrieved from the Unidentifiable Haze that possesses an immortal body. Because he knows the origins of his immortality involved hurting many people, he harbors a strong desire to commit suicide. He is often rebellious, uncooperative, and rude.

Ryota Ohsaka as Kensuke Hanazaki, a boy who, in his iration of Akechi, has wanted to the Boy Detectives Club since he was eight years old. Instead of mulling things over in his head, he is the type to move as his body tells him to naturally before thinking.

Yūichirō Umehara as Ryō Inoue, the former leader of the Boy Detectives Club, before leaving the position altogether and handing it to Hanazaki. He is smart, and even now continues to operate in the team's control tower.

In addition, character designer Magazine Special.

The anime will premiere on BS11, and other channels in October. The anime's official website notes that, aside from the anime and manga, the project will also include a stage play and a live-action film.

Text: Seeking death, he chose the path of a detective.
Text: Character design: Peach-Pit
Text: The year 203X, Tokyo
Text: The Boy Detectives Club, Private Detective, The Fiend With Twenty Faces
Text: The legend returns anew.
Yoshio: I only want to die.
Text: The boy fated to carry the burden of immortality: Yoshio Kobayashi (Daiki Yamashita)
Kensuke: Do you want to the Boy Detectives Club?
Text: Acting leader of the Boy Detectives Club: Kensuke Hanazaki (Ryota Ohsaka)
Kensuke and Logo: Trickster: Edogawa Rampo 'Shōnen Tantei-dan' Yori
Yoshio: I want to die.

The site describes the story:

It is the 2030s. The Boy Detectives Club gathers under Kogorō Akechi, the mysterious detective. The group solves cases great and small using their unique skills. One day, a member of the club, Kensuke Hanazaki, meets the boy Yoshio Kobayashi. Kobayashi's body cannot die due to the effects of the "Unidentifiable Mist," but he yearns for death, and shirks from with other people. Taking an interest in him, Hanazaki invites him to the Boy Detectives Club. Their meeting is connected to the fate tying together Kogorō Akechi, and the era's greatest villain, the Fiend With Twenty Faces.

Kiznaiver) is composing the music.

Shōnen Tantei-dan (The Boy Detectives Club) describes both the 1937 novel by renowned Japanese mystery novelist Edogawa Rampo Kitan: Game of Laplace television anime adapts many of Edogawa's stories.

Source: MoCa News