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
The major subplot of volumes sixteen and seventeen is one that has been slowly coming to fruition for quite a long time: That of the whereabouts of Nana Osaki's missing mother. Weekly Search has been busily digging up dirt in-between the lurches of the previous volumes, and now finally they are ready to go to print. (Any especially thick-headed readers should now know beyond a shadow of a doubt what is going on with that little hole in the wall restaurant in Osaka by now.) Nana's reaction to the revelation, after all that buildup of dramatic tension, is a bit anti-climatic, but there is plenty of opportunity to get to know the series' large cast of characters better as they react collectively to the fallout.