1st Ajin Film's 2nd Trailer Previews flumpool's Theme Song

1st film in planned trilogy opens in Japan on November 27
The official website for the anime of Gamon Sakurai's Ajin - Demi-Human manga began streamingthe first film's second trailer on Thursday. The trailer previews Japanese rock band flumpool's theme song "Yoru wa Nemureru kai?" (Can You Sleep at Night?).



The first film in the planned trilogy, Ajin: Shōdō (Ajin: Demi-Human - Compel), will open in Japan on November 27 for a two-week limited engagement. The film held its world premiere at the Tokyo International Film Festival on October 28. Those who purchase tickets in advance starting on Friday will receive a clear file featuring a new illustration by Sakurai. The clear file will include a printed QR code allowing purchasers access to a voiced scenario featuring characters Kei Nagai and Kaito. Hiroshi Seko, who is in charge of series script supervision for the film trilogy and the TV anime series, wrote the scenario.

In the manga's story, an immortal first appeared on an African battlefield 17 years ago. Later, rare, unknown new immortal lifeforms began appearing among humans, and they became known as "Ajin" (demi-humans). Just before summer vacation, a Japanese high school student named Kei Nagai is instantly killed in a traffic accident on his way home from school. However, he is revived, and a price is placed on his head. Thus begins a boy's life on the run from all of humankind.

The project will also receive a television anime, which will premiere on MBS, TBS, and CBC on January. Netflix will stream episodes in Japan three days after airing on Japanese television, and then in other Netflix territories in mid-2016. The television series will go deeper into the story and provide more details on the story's world.

The manga's eighth volume will also bundle an anime on DVD when it ships on May 6.

The film's cast is as follows:

Mamoru Miyano (Death Note's Light, Free!'s Rin) as Kei Nagai



Yoshimasa Hosoya (Kuroko's Basketball's Hyūga, Attack on Titan's Reiner) as Kaito



Houchu Ohtsuka (Naruto's Jiraiya, Zeta Gundam's Yazan Gable) as Satō



Takahiro Sakurai (Code Geass' Suzaku, Mononoke's Medicine Seller) as Tosaki



Mikako Komatsu (Bodacious Space Pirates' Marika Kato, Nisekoi's Tsugumi) as Izumi Shimomura



Daisuke Hirakawa (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders' Kakyoin, Free!'s Rei) as Kōji Tanaka



Additionally, Aya Suzaki (Aikatsu!'s Mikuru Natsuki, Knights of Sidonia's Shizuka Hoshijiro) will play Eriko Nagai, and Hiroyuki Kinoshita (Jin-Roh's Atsushi Henmi, Robotics;Notes' Hiromu Hidaka) will play Ikuya Ogura.

Hiroyuki Seshita (Knights of Sidonia, Knights of Sidonia: Battle for Planet Nine) is serving as chief director, and Hiroaki Ando (Five Numbers!, Gambo, episode director on Knights of Sidonia) is directing the films at POLYGON PICTURES (Knights of Sidonia, Ronja the Robber's Daughter,Transformers Prime). Hiroshi Seko (Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign, scripts on Attack on Titan) is supervising the scripts, Yuki Moriyama (Knights of Sidonia) is the character designer, and Yuugo Kanno (Psycho-Pass, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders) is composing the music.

Sakurai launched the manga in Kodansha's good! Afternoonmagazine in 2012, and Kodansha published the seventh compiled book volume in Japan on November 6. The seven volumes have 3.9 million copies in print. Vertical published the sixth volume in North America on August 25. Crunchyroll isposting new chapters as Kodansha publishes them in Japan.

The manga ranked as a top manga series on the Nationwide Bookstore Employees' Recommended Comics of 2014 list andin the 2014 edition of the Kono Manga ga Sugoi! guidebook. The series also received a nomination for the 18th Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize "Reader Award" last year.