Altered Carbon: Resleeved Anime Comes to Netflix on March 19

Netflix has been slowly but surely building an impressive anime empire over the last few years. Major hits like Devilman Crybaby and Aggretsuko mark their ever-growing lineup of anime offerings, alongside impressive upcoming releases like a new Ghost in the Shell project and the latest Studio Trigger anime BNA: Brand New Animals. Their latest anime announcement is a pretty unique one, though, because it’s actually an animated spin-off of one of their exclusive live-action series. Sci-fi adventure Altered Carbon is getting the 3DCG anime treatment with a new project titled Altered Carbon: Resleeved, and it’s set to hit Netflix on March 19th.

The animated feature focuses on Takeshi Kovacs, a man living on the planet Latimer who is coerced into protecting a yakuza tattoo artist as he investigates the death of a major yakuza boss alongside a no-nonsense CTAC detective. The story is penned by Dai Sato, the writer behind hit series like Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Eureka Seven, Cowboy Bebop, and Ergo Proxy. It’s meant to “explore new elements of the story mythology.” Tsukasa Kondo is also credited as a writer on Altered Carbon: Resleeved.

The Japanese voice cast for the 3DCG anime is as follows:

• Tatsuhisa Suzuki as Ken (Takeshi Kovacs)
• Rina Satou as Gina (Leilin Kawahara)
• Ayaka Asai as Holly Togram
• George Nakata as Ogai
• Kenji Yamauchi as Hideki Tanaseda
• Kanehira Yamamoto as Shinji
• Kōji Ishii as Genzō

Altered Carbon: Resleeved is being produced by Anima, the 3DCG animation studio behind Cat Shit One: The Animated Series and Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV. The anime is being directed by Jo Nakajima and Yoshiyuki Okada. Yasuo Ohtagaki, the character designer behind Moonlight Mile and Mobile Suit Gundam: Thunderbolt, is credited as the character designer on this anime as well. Ren Kikuchi of Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV fame is the CG supervisor, while MONACA is composing music for the animation.

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