The official YouTube approach for the anime flat Gonzo began alive the promotional video "1.5" for Ryo, the studio's Anime Mirai 2013 entry, on Wednesday. This adaptation appearance the music from Hitomi Kuroishi (Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion, Endure Exile).

Ryo begins in the year Keiō 2 (1866), or the 11th ages in the year Keiō 3 by lunar agenda reckoning, in Kyoto. It is a time if Japan was in agitation over altered ideologies, such as those calling for the abolish of the Tokugawa shogunate. A adolescence called Ryo will accost the real-life actual swordsman Hijikata Toshizō on the advertisement accouter of the Goryōkaku government's flagship Kaiyō. (Historical Japanese names are listed ancestors name aboriginal here, while avant-garde names are listed ancestors name last.)

Koichi Chigira is administering Ryo at Gonzo with ambassador Shinichiro Ishikawa. Junichi Takaoka advised the characters and is administering the action process. Sakae Shibuya and Sayaka Takase are mentoring a accumulation of adolescent key animators on the project.

The casting includes the following:

Aoi Yūki as Ryo

Minako Kotobuki as Kuro

Keiji Fujiwara as Sakamoto Ryōma

Ai Kayano as Oryū

Toshiyuki Morikawa as Hijikata Toshizō

Yuuki Ono as Nakamura Hanjirō

Shinya Takahashi as Nakaoka Shintarō

Takanori Nishikawa as Okubo Toshimichi

Under the Anime Mirai program, the Japan Action Creators Association (JAniCA) receives money from the Japanese government's Agency for Cultural Affairs, and it distributes a lot of of those funds to studios who will alternation adolescent animators on-the-job. The added three studios' projects are Flat Trigger's Little Witch Academia, ZEXCS's Aruvu Rezuru - Kikai Jikake no Yōsei-tachi (Aruvu Rezuru - Mechanized Fairies), and MADHOUSE's Death Billiards.

The shorts will accessible in Japanese theaters on March 2.