Opening Theme:
"Rose-Hip Bullet" by GRANRODEO
Ending Theme:
#01: "No moral" by Kanako Itou (ep 1)
#02: "Bright Lights" by Seiji Kimura (ep 2)
#03: "Don't Stare Me" by VERTUEUX (ep 3)
#04: "Toge" by Sadie (ep 4)
The togainu no chi -Bloody Curs- anime adapts a 2005 bishōnen videogame from the multimedia studio Nitro+CHiRAL (sweet pool, Lamento –BEYOND THE VOID-). It centers on Akira (Kousuke Toriumi), a man who is falsely accused. In order to clear his name, he goes to the fallen city of Toshima to face a syndicate leader named Il Rey.
The show will premiere in Japan on Thursday. Naoyuki Konno (009-1, Dance in the Vampire Bund) is directing the anime at A-1 Pictures (Kannagi, Black Butler) and designing the characters. Natsuko Takahashi (07-Ghost, Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan, Moyashimon, Tokyo Magnitude 8.0) is supervising the scripts. Tokyopop will publish the sixth volume of Suguro Chayamachi's manga version in North America in November.
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Vol. 16-18 Manga Review
Two of the volumes reviewed, sixteen and eighteen, are oversized; they include side stories devoted to Nobu and Takumi respectively. While Nobu's is about as unexciting as the characters' hometown and really does little more than show, in detail, how prosaic his personality really is (Yazawa was just phoning it in, anyway), Takumi's—as per the character's simultaneously alluring and repulsive sides—is quite fascinating. We get to see the basis for his “special” relationship to Reira, and by implication a bit of the rationale behind his eagerness to lay claim to Hachi's unborn child. Needless to say, the language here is definitely not appropriate for your average pre-teen.