Well, I am not a fan of the seiyuus for Ein and Zwei but I am a great fan of Sawashiro Miyuki and Hisakawa Aya, so I guess this is mostly good news. The screenshots look nice. Thanks for this scoop!

I see you haven't much Bee Train's work if you think there's going to be fluid animation in their work, their action scenes tend to be "decent" but not good. Expect lots of long stillted shots in many scenes especially considering who the director will be for this series.

Zwei's seiyu worries me. But it's possible for me to get surprised.
Ein's seiyu atleast will get the quiet voice down.
Yes. Sawashiro Miyuki is always good.
Haven't heard Hisakawa Aya much.

Welp, here's that highly anticipated trailer.


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It doesn't look too bad... but neither did BotI's trailer >.>. It looks like it won't be as fluid as I hoped, but the Ein/Zwei fight was and it looked nice. Lizzy ditched the biker look and actually looks nice(she looked more like a man in the VN).And they got SM's face down to the letter; looks just like him. On top of that, it looks like they're gonna get to chapter 2 and chapter 3 if they're showing Cal and Mio. Too bad there's no Drei :(. Hopefully it'll be 26 eps.

If someone can translate the staff information, I'd appreciate it:

http://www.phantom-r.jp/

I'll be happy if...

The official website is updated with characters' introduction.

Director : Kōichi MASHIMO (真下耕一)
Original creation : Nitro+ (ニトロプラス)
Series Composition : Yōsuke KURODA (黒田洋介)
Screenplay : Kazuho HYODO (兵頭一歩), Shougo YASUKAWA (ヤスカワショウゴ), Yukihito NONAKA (野中幸人), Hideki SHIRANE (白根秀樹), Gen UROBUCHI (虚淵玄), Tatsuya TAKAHASHI (高橋龍也), Noboru KIMURA (木村暢), Yousuke KURODA (黒田洋介)
Charater Design : Yoshimitsu YAMASHITA (山下善光), Mutsumi SASAKI (佐々木睦美), Yoko KIKUCHI (菊地洋子), Tomoaki KADO (門智昭), Yoshiaki TSUBATA (津幡佳明), Yoshimitsu YAMASHITA (山下喜光)
Sound director : Yota TSURUOKA (鶴岡陽太)
Music : Hikaru NANASE (七瀬光)
Music production : Lantis (ランティス)
Production : GENCO, Project Phantom
Animation production : Bee Train (ビィートレイン)

The Comiket promo is now streaming.

Here's a better definition trailer I found on youtube.

Thanks for the staff list and link :). If Kuroda is doing the series comp, then it looks like its in good hands. At the very least, I can expect it to actually follow the orig story well, unlike that KSS bs :mad:.

Claudia and Lizzie look totally hot. Damn, I just can't get over how good Lizzie looks compared to the VN counterpart:


Thanks for the trailer :), I couldn't see the one on that biglobe site. Wow :twitch: the movement looks more fluent than I thought. I hope the trailer reflects how the show is going to consistently look. I REALLY don't want it to end up looking like Chaos;HEAD :uhoh:. My expectations for this is pretty high right now.

Any word as to how many eps its going to be? Hopefully 24 at the very least.

Starts broadcasting on 4/2.

I had heard about the name Bee train a year or two back . I used to visit this fanart site Coppelia and one of her categories was Bee Train . So Yeah I am curious too know what this series has in store .... Here are a few fan-arts from her site ^__^


One image in particular reminded me of Noir : D

More secondary characters from ANN.

Hideo Ishikawa as Issac Wisemel
Isshin Chiba as Scythe Master
Sōichiro Hoshi as Toru Shiga
Susumu Chiba as Raymond Mcguire
Tomoyuki Shimura as Daisuke Godo

Plot summary has been put up:
A spate of mafia assasinations occurs in America, the work of the mysterious organization named Inferno. "Phantom" is their most strongest and capable assassin, however a lone tourist witnesses Phantom's latest act of murder. He unwittingly exposes the top assassin's true identity, a young girl named Ein. Witnesses are usually killed, but the man is captured and taken to be brainwashed into "Zwei", Inferno's newest assassin, with no memory of who he is. From this point on, Zwei is drawn into a world of conspiracy, deceit and violence.

I really loved the VN. The DVD thing was a great concept. Hourglass of Summer has been nice to.
It would be nice, if they keep the third person narrator. It gave the story more depth. For the ending I would prefer something tragic. I didn't liked the epilogue in the Ein ending.

Nooooo. :T_T:

I think Ein's character shines the most in the Drei route.

Personally, Ein's death in Drei's path is one of the most meaningful, tragic but kick ass as she go out with a big bang in VN. But I supposed this story will never happen. The scene reminded me of last hours of Boromir from Lord of the Rings, or Leonidas last shout in 300. Beautiful scene. A zankoku-bi by itself.

This is exactly why I prefer the epic Drei ending over the still-excellent Ein ending. Ein's death in the Drei path matters. It accomplishes something. In a way it fulfills her mission, even though she's not the one to reap the rewards. She goes out with a bang, and with a sweet victory, along with a "baton pass" scene worthy of the show. Not so in the Ein ending, where Drei simply doesn't deserve what's been happening to her. Don't get me wrong, her death scene is extremely touching, and the four times I played through the game (yes, laugh at me), I'll admit that I choked up every single time at her last hurrah. It's a touching, but very bitter and empty way to die. The conclusion of a cruel and absolutely unfair hand that was dealt to her, born out of sheer desperation and leaving guilt and sadness behind in the survivor. Ein's death concludes the ultimate success, while Drei's death ends in utter failure.

So, even while I'm skeptical about her chances, I'll sure root for an upset Drei route.

Phantom has an interesting story and the character designs, as well as the animation coloring are pretty good. I look forward to this one.

This is a fanart? Wow!! The artist is very skillful!!