ēlDLIVE TV Anime's Rough Design for New Character Revealed

The ēlDLIVE television anime revealed on Saturday a new rough character design by the original manga's creator Akira Amano. A character profile and voice actor for the character have not been announced.


The first 2017 issue of Shueisha's Shonen Jump X magazine exclusively revealed more of Amano's sketches on Saturday. The issue's cover features crossover art with ēlDLIVE and Yūki Tabata's Black Clover manga.


The anime will premiere on Tokyo MX on January 8 at 10:00 p.m. The anime will also then air on Fukuoka Broadcasting, Yomiuri TV, Sapporo TV, Chukyo TV, and BS11.

Viz Media published the first three chapters of the manga in English digitally in September-October 2014 as part of its "Jump Start" initiative.

It describes the manga as follows:
"Mumbling" Chūta Kokonose doesn't have many friends. In fact, the only conversations he has anymore are with voices inside his head. Little does he know that this voice doesn't mean he's crazy. It just means he has an alien living inside his body!
The cast stars:
Ayumu Murase as Chūta Kokonose

Saori Hayami as Misuzu Sonokata

Rie Kugimiya as Dorū

Tatsuhisa Suzuki as Laine Brick

Daiki Kobayashi as Assistant Inspector Chips

The other cast members include:
Riho Iida as Beronica
Lynn as Ninotchka
Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Dr. Ravu
Neeko as Harry
Eriko Matsui as Tonto
Kenichirou Matsuda as Riggs
Akiko Kimura as Aunt Mimi
Akio Suyama as Tateyan
Minami Takahashi as Maclane
Masaaki Ihara as Melies
Tomotaka Hachisuka as Geronimo

Takeshi Furuta (The Comic Artist and His Assistants, Saint Seiya: Soul of Gold, Utano Princesama Legend Star) is directing at Studio Pierrot with assistant director Tomoya Tanaka (Blood Lad). Toshimitsu Takeuchi (Saint Seiya: Soul of Gold, Shōnen Ashibe GO! GO! Goma-chan, Weiß Survive R) is in charge of the series scripts. Han Seungah (Seung Ah Han) is serving as character designer and chief animation director with sub-character designer Keiichirou Matsui (Deadman Wonderland). Yasuharu Takanashi (Naruto Shippūden, Fairy Tail, Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Crystal) of Team-MAX is composing the music.

Female singer Alfakyun is performing the opening theme song, while The Super Ball duo (The Morose Mononokean) are performing the ending theme song.

A "New Akira Amano in Kyoto" exhibition will run from January 20 to February 12 in the Galerie Aube at the Kyoto University of Art and Design. The exhibition will screen a roundtable discussion between the ēlDLIVE anime's main cast, and a reunion between the cast members of Reborn! — another anime based on a manga by Amano. The Shonen Jump+ app is conducting an ēlDLIVE and Reborn! character popularity poll, and the top 3 characters will have art on display at the exhibition, rotated every week. The exhibition will also have exclusive goods.

A previous "Amano Akira Illustrations Exhibition" showed a collaboration mini anime video between ēlDLIVE and Reborn! at the pixiv Zingaro gallery in Tokyo's Nakano Broadway complex this past summer. The Kyoto exhibition will be an expanded version of the Tokyo one with over 100 art pieces.

Amano (Reborn!) launched the original series in full color on Shonen Jump+'s predecessor app Jump Live in August 2013. The manga switched to Shonen Jump+ when the app launched in September 2014. Shueisha released the manga's seventh compiled book volume on December 31.​