(CR) Katsute Kami Datta Kemono-tachi e (To the Abandoned Sacred Beasts) Anticipation

[Stark700]

Manga 'Katsute Kami Datta Kemono-tachi e' (To the Abandoned Sacred Beast) is getting a TV anime adaptation.

Plot Summary

During the Civil War, the North—desperate to defeat the South—utilized forbidden magic that turned their soldiers into monstrous beings known as Incarnates. In exchange for their humanity they were granted immense power to defeat their foes. But though their lands were saved, some grew to fear the Incarnates in the aftermath of the war, causing them to be shunned, and some even killed.

Years later in a town in the middle of nowhere, Nancy Schaal Bancroft has found her target—the man responsible for killing her Incarnate father. Armed with an elephant gun, she takes aim and fires, but he remains unharmed. Despite revealing her vengeful intentions to him, the man has other pressing matters to attend to: the murder of another Incarnate. During the clash, Schaal discovers that her father's killer is actually an Incarnate himself, and his murderous streak is due to a promise he made long ago: that any Incarnate who loses their humanity will be taken down by one of their own.

After the beast is dead, the Incarnate known as Hank invites Schaal to accompany him on his journey, so that she can understand the truth behind her father's death and why these monstrous beings are better off dying at the hands of their former comrades.

[Written by MAL Rewrite]

Source
http://moetron.net/post/182567441770...ute-kami-datta

[shmaster]

Hahahaha! We just have Fairy Gone next door and now this.
Coincidence?
Or is Maybe telling Jumonji not so fast?

[Stark700]

Key visual is up



Official site
http://katsu-kami.com/

[bastek66]

https://twitter.com/pkjd818/status/1092620046671593474

Director: Jun Shishido (Story of Saiunkoku)
Series Comp: Shigeru Murakoshi (Zombieland Saga)
Chara Design: Daisuke Niinuma (lots of key animation like Detective Conan)
Studio: MAPPA

Hank (CV: Katsuyuki Konishi)
Schaal (Ai Kakuma)

[Renchan]

If this air at the same time as Fairy Gone, it'll be riot.

[Cosmic Eagle]

Holy fukkk...WHAT?!


OMG, I hope they don't screw this up



(Also vs Fairy Gone memes)

[Cosmic Eagle]

Initial CV list:

https://twitter.com/katsukami_anime/...46198197186560

[Kanon]

Originally Posted by Renchan

If this air at the same time as Fairy Gone, it'll be riot.

I really hope it does.

[Kismet-chan]

I know nothing about Fairy Gone other than the premise so I won't/can't comment on those references... But I'm very pleased to see this get adapted. It's one of a tiny handful of manga that caught my eye in the past few years. And I feel pretty content with MAPPA handling it.

[Cosmic Eagle]

I hope at least it covers up to the arc introducing Elaine and Hank's past

[Kanon]

Originally Posted by Kismet-chan

I know nothing about Fairy Gone other than the premise so I won't/can't comment on those references... But I'm very pleased to see this get adapted. It's one of a tiny handful of manga that caught my eye in the past few years. And I feel pretty content with MAPPA handling it.

Nobody knows anything about Fairy Gone beside the premise since it's anime original. However, you can tell from the premise alone it's very similar to this. Whether these similarities end up being superficial remains to be seen.

[Cosmic Eagle]

https://twitter.com/katsukami_anime/...60816597880834

Interesting, one of the staff is posting updates in english as well

[videoman190]

The cast of characters and profile info

Spoiler for For Character profiles and cast:

Kaito Ishikawa as Claude, a young major in the Northern Patria Union Army. Born to a distinguished family, he leads the Coup de Grace unit that was established to suppress the Incarnates and hunt these beasts that have gone rogue. Due his unique circumstances, he heeds the calling to subdue the Incarnates even more than others do.



Yōko Hikasa as Liza in the postbellum processing unit of the Northern Patria Union Army's Intelligence Agency. She supports Hank on his ongoing journey as a Beast Hunter.




Katsuyuki Konishi as Hank



Ai Kakuma as Nancy Schaal Bancroft



Yūichi Nakamura as Cain



Mamiko Noto as Elaine

[Stark700]

Premieres Summer 2019.

https://twitter.com/katsukami_anime/...65057318170624

[Cosmic Eagle]

Oh pity, no direct competition with Fairy Gone

[EasyGo-er]

Originally Posted by Cosmic Eagle

Oh pity, no direct competition with Fairy Gone

On the other hand tho, you'll be seeing lots of comments saying that they've already watched the same show in previous season when it actually comes out

[Stark700]

Preview

[LG-MAX 2.o]

It will not be an Netflix exclusive: https://katsu-kami.com/onair/

Of course, there are still chances of the series to be broadcast on Netflix, but chances are very small since normally only the series that get exclusive streaming in Japan by Netflix also take that treatment here. And fortunately this will not happen with this anime since in Japan the FOD will have the exclusive right of streaming.

[Marcus H.]

Totally surprised that Maybe has finally returned to his dark fantasy roots. (To the "uninitiated", Maybe has been doing dark stories like this as an illustrator before he shifted into lighthearted stories like Mankai Otome and, eventually, Tasogare Otome x Amnesia and Kekkon Yubiwa Monogatari.) Well, the development of the story of Kekkon Yubiwa is also approaching a more serious tone, so it was only a matter of time until Maybe wanted something that's more gritty.

Netflix-exclusive though... good luck with the subtitles on that.

[LG-MAX 2.o]

Netflix-exclusive though... good luck with the subtitles on that.

It has already been confirmed that it will not be an Netflix exclusive, at least in Japan, which means that here probably will not be either.