Since the announcement of the Plastic Memories anime project last year, lots of new images and information have been released. The anime’s official website has revealed a brand new visual as well as new characters that will appear in the upcoming anime. In addition, some recent Japanese anime magazines featured Plastic Memories with new visuals.
The anime’s website has revealed new character designs for the main characters of the upcoming series, though no cast members have been announced so far. The leading characters includes:
- Tsukasa Mizugaki, the leading character of the series who is a high school graduate new employee at SA Corp.’s terminal service who is clueless about what his job is. He is teamed up with Isla, a Giftia/android
- Isla, a Giftia/android who doesn’t show much emotion. She is teamed up with Tsukasa Mizugaki and has to help him since he has little idea what his role is. Like all Giftia, she has an expected function span of 9 years
- Michiru Kinushima, although she is the same age as Tsukasa she is his senior and teaches him about what his role is at SA Corp
- Zack, a Giftia/android who is partnered with Michiru and appears to be a young boy, but he has enough power to take of himself
The site has also revealed additional supporting characters:
- Kaduki Kuwanomi
- Constance
- Yasutaka Hanada
- Sherry
- Eru Miru
- Takao Yamanobe
The recent issues of Dengeki G’s Magazine have released two new magazine spreads for Plastic Memories.
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The anime’s staff includes:
- Director: Yoshiyuki Fujiwara (GJ-bu, Engaged to the Unidentified)
- Script Writer and Creator: Naotaka Hayashi (Steins;Gate Scenario Supervisor, from MAGES)
- Anime Character Designer: Chiaki Nakajima (Love Lab, Yuruyuri)
- Original Character Designer: okiura (Infinite Stratos)
- Animation Studio: Dogakobo (Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun, GJ-bu)
Here is the first promotional video for Plastic Memories:
Here is a synopsis of Plastic Memories from MAL:
This story takes place in a future not too far away when androids that look exactly like humans begin to spread across the world. The android production company SA Corp. produced Giftia, a new kind of android that has the most amount of emotion and human-like qualities out of any other model ever seen.
However, due to problems in technology, the androids have a service life, and once they pass that, they… Well, it gets pretty bad. For this sake, SA Corp. creates a terminal service in order to retrieve Giftia that have gone past their service life. A new employee at the terminal service named Tsukasa Mizugaki forms a team with the Giftia Isla to retrieve the other androids, but…
The Plastic Memories anime will be airing sometime later this year. More information about the upcoming series will be revealed in the near future.
You can visit the anime’s website here: http://www.plastic-memories.jp/
And follow their Twitter: @pla_memo
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