Sentai Filmworks announced on Sunday at Anime Expo, that they have licensed the television anime series Sunday Without God ( Original name: Kamisama no Inai Nichiyobi ). Sentai stated that the series will be one season of 12 episodes and it will be released for home video in 2014.
Director of the script is Yuuji Kumazawa ( known from Oda Nobuna no Yabo ), along with the script supervisor Tomoko Konparu ( known from Kimi ni Todoke and Nana ). Characrter are designed by Shinichi Miyamae while the backgrounds are made by Studio Easter. Satoshi Matoyama and Hiromi Mizutani are serving as sound and music directors.
Sunday Without God – Kamisama No Inai Nichiyobi
Sunday Without God – Kamisama no Inai Nichiyobi Cast:
- Aki Toyosaki as Ai
- Daisuke Namikawa as Hanpunii Hanbaato
- Yuko Goto as Hana
- Mamiko Noto as Scar
- Keiji Fujiwara as Yurii Sakuma Domiitoriebicchi
- Tetsuya Kakihara as Kiriko Zuburesuka
- Mikako Komatsu as Urra Eureusu Hekumatika
- Eri Kitamura as Dii Enjii Sutoratomittosu
Sunday Without God Story
The fantasy, which is based on a series of light novels by Kimihito Irie, is set 15 years after humans stopped being born and the dead stopped dying, since the world was abandoned by God.That left “Gravekeepers” with the unique task of giving the would-be dead peace. A girl named Ai is the only Gravekeeper in her village; she was born from a Gravekeeper mother and a human father 12 years ago. One day, a boy named Hanpunii Hanbaato appears and begins firing his pistol indiscriminately and setting the village on fire. Hanpunii confronts Ai with the shocking truth.
The anime series premiered in Japan on Saturday, July 6th, and Crunchyroll is streaming the anime as it airs in Japan.