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Mamoru Oshii's Vladlove Anime Unveils Key Visual, Character Visuals
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
The official website for Vladlove revealed a new key visual and character visuals for the anime on Tuesday. The site is also streaming a video inviting people to guess the voice actress for the character Mitsugu Bamba.
Those who guess the voice actress correctly will enter a lottery for a chance to be invited to a screening of the anime.
The main characters are:
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The new anime will be a slapstick comedy centering on a vampire girl named Mai and a high school girl. Oshii noted that the anime "won't have any handsome men (ikemen)," and its story will solely focus on five young girls. He added that he wanted to "seriously tackle a story centering on a girl-meets-girl concept," and teased that Mai "feels similar to Urusei Yatsura's Lum."
Mitsugu Bamba is a high school girl who finds meaning in donating blood. She frequently visits a blood bank to donate blood, despite being harshly treated by the nurse. One day, she encounters a beautiful girl who looks like she's from overseas at the blood bank. The pale girl looks like she's about to faint any minute, but then, she starts destroying the blood bank. The girl loses consciousness and Mitsugu takes her home...
The anime will premiere in fall 2020, and will run for 12 episodes.
As previously announced, Oshii is the executive director and is credited with the original work, and Monogatari Series key animator/episode animation director) is deg the characters.
Ichigo Animation, the subsidiary of the Ichigo Japanese real estate and energy company, is funding the project to promote its Akiba Cultures Zone retail building in Tokyo's Akihabara district.
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Frequent Oshii collaborator Chisami Itō are also ing the unit.
Source: Vladlove's Twitter
