God Eater (Anime)

God Eater is an upcoming anime adaptation of the God Eater videogame series, it will be animated by Ufotable, and is set to be released in July 5, 2015.

Summary
The anime is basically an adaptation of God Eater Burst, which focuses on the Fenrir Far East Branch's First Unit, and their struggles to protect the remnants of mankind from  the Aragami, monsters that consume much of humanity and Earth's resources.

Cast

 * Ryūichi Kijima - Renka Utsugi
 * Hiroaki Hirata - Lindow Amamiya
 * Sayaka Ohara - Sakuya Tachibana
 * Kazuya Nakai - Soma Schicksal
 * Daisuke Sakaguchi - Kota Fujiki
 * Maaya Sakamoto - Alisa Illinichina Amiella

Development
The anime was green-lit during the Tokyo Game Show 2014, as part of franchise's 5th aniversary, alongside the announcement of God Eater 2 Rage Burst. On September 20 2014, an anime teaser visual was shown on the GEA Project twitter account, showing Lindow Amamiya facing a pack of Ogretails with Aegis Island far in the background.

During a stage presentation at the "Machi Asobi 14" event in Tokushima on Sunday, animation studio ufotable revealed the first promotional video for the upcoming anime adaptation of its God Eater game series. The video revealed that the series will star Ryūichi Kijima as the voice of the protagonist Renka Utsugi. Renka, who is an original character, is a New-Type God Eater. The staff chose Kijima for the role after auditioning more than 100 people.

Additionally, the stage event revealed that OLDCODEX will perform the opening theme song. The series will premiere in Japan on July 5, and it will air on Tokyo MX TV, BS 11, and other stations. The staff of the anime noted at the event that studio ufotable will use hand-drawn animation to animate the God Arc weapons instead of CG.

Trivia

 * God Eater TV anime might not be considered "canon" in the God Eater series due to the protagonist Renka Utsugi replacing Yuu Kannagi in anime adaptation.