King of Thorn

Synopsis

A mysterious virus, nicknamed Medusa, is spreading around Japan, turning its victims into stone. Given the impossibility of finding an immediate cure, the government opts for cryopreserving a select group of patients until they come up with a solution. Kasumi, one of the chosen ones, has been asleep for years and her awakening, more than a bed of roses, is a bed of thorns, and happens in the midst of total chaos where monstrous creatures lie in wait all around.

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Cast

Kana Hanazawa

Kasumi Ishiki (voice)

Kohsei Hirota

Alexandro Pecchino (voice)

Misaki Kuno

Alice (voice)

Tsutomu Isobe

Ivan Coral Vega (voice)

Sayaka Ohara

Katherine Turner (voice)

Ayako Kawasumi

Laura Owen (voice)

Toshiyuki Morikawa

Marco Owen (voice)

Shin-ichiro Miki

Peter Stevens (voice)

Eri Sendai

Shizuku Ishiki (voice)

Akiko Yajima

Timothy Laisenbach (voice)

Akiko Yajima

Walter (voice)

Kenji Nomura

Ron Portman (voice)

Crew

Art

• Hideki Nakamura Art Direction
• Iwao Teraoka Additional Storyboarding
• Kazuyoshi Katayama Storyboard Artist
• Tsukasa Sunaga Storyboard Artist

Camera

• Mitsuhiro Sato Director of Photography

Crew

• Shinpei Ōsaku Systems Administrators & Support
• Yukiko Kakita Special Effects

Directing

• Kazuyoshi Katayama Director
• Hirotaka Endo Second Unit Director
• Shingo Uchida Second Unit Director

Editing

• Shuichi Kakesu Editor

Production

• Junichi Kimura Producer
• Yasumasa Tsuchiya Producer

Sound

• Toshihiko Sahashi Original Music Composer
• Yota Tsuruoka Sound Director

Visual Effects

• Kimitoshi Yamane Mechanical Designer
• Hidenori Matsubara Character Designer
• Takashi Hashimoto Key Animation
• Tomonari Nakajima CGI Director
• Naoyuki Onda Supervising Animation Director
• Takashi Hashimoto Animation Director
• Kenji Ando Creature Design
• Atsushi Irie Key Animation
• Katsumi Matsuda Animation Director
• Hiroaki Noguchi Animation Director
• Akihide Miya Key Animation
• Katsumi Matsuda Key Animation

Writing

• Hiroshi Yamaguchi Screenplay
• Yuji Iwahara Original Story
• Kazuyoshi Katayama Screenplay