The announcement of the production of an animated version of the manga comes from Kodansha Tesla Notes written by Masafumi Nishida and Tadayoshi Kubo and drawn by Kouta Sannomiya. Here is what information was released.

The work published in the weekly newspaper Shonen magazinetells of a war between spies to prevent the destruction of the world. In particular, we will follow the events of the Ninja Botan Negoro who, in conjunction with Kuruma, a spy who is well versed in theatrical art, will try to regain the so-called Tesla crystal, the legacy of the brilliant scientist Nikola Tesla.

A first trailer can be seen on the cover of this news. It presents various characters from the opera with their relative Voice actor, or:

  • Konomi Koharain the role of the protagonist Botan Negoro
  • Tatsuhisa Suzukifor the voice of Curuma
  • Tomoaki Maenointerpreted Ryunosuke Takamatsu
  • Junichi Suwabe is Mickey Miller
  • Hiroshi Kamiyafor the voice of Oliver Thornton.

A key visual has also been released, shown at the bottom of the news, showing all five of the boys listed above.

The anime is directed by Michio Fukuda, while he is working on the script it will be the same Masafumi Nishida, also known as the author of Tiger & Bunny and is currently working with the MAPPA studio on the production of RE-MAIN. The animations are entrusted to the studio gambit and among the rest of the staff we can remember POKImari for character design and Kaoru Wada for composing the music.

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For those interested, it should be noted that there are also a few cuckoos among the numerous souls that have been announced in the last few days.

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