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Babylon TV Anime Reveals 1st Promo Video, Cast, October Premiere
posted on by Jennifer Sherman
The official website for the television anime adaptation of Mado Nozaki's Babylon novels revealed the first promotional video, main cast, a new key visual, and the October premiere on Tuesday.
The anime will premiere on the Tokyo MX and BS11 channels in October, and it will stream exclusively both inside and outside Japan on Amazon Prime Video.
The main cast includes:
Yūichi Nakamura as Zen Seizaki
Takahiro Sakurai as Shinobu Kujiin
Kenshō Ono as Atsuhiko Fumio
M.A.O as Hiasa Sekuro
Kenyuu Horiuchi as Yasutaka Morinaga
The suspense story centers around Zen Seizaki, a prosecutor with the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors' Office. While investigating illegal acts by a certain pharmaceutical company, Seizaki stumbles across a conspiracy over an election for an autonomous "new zone" established in western Tokyo.
Kodansha's novel label Kodansha Taiga released the novels' first volume in 2015, followed by the second in 2016. The third and final volume shipped in November 2017. Nobuhide Takishita launched a manga adaptation of the novels in February.
Nozaki wrote the script for the KADO - The Right Answer anime. His other novels include know and Fantasista Doll: Eve.
Sources: Babylon anime's website, Comic Natalie
