'16bit Sensation: Another Layer' Reveals Additional Cast, Staff, Main Promo

by Vindstot
Sep 10, 2023 5:18 AM | 12 Comments

The Aniplex Online Fest 2023 event revealed additional cast, staff, the main promo, and first key visual (pictured) for the 16bit Sensation: Another Layer anime series on Sunday.

The television anime adaptation of Tamiki Wakaki's workplace comedy web manga will begin airing on October 5 at 12:30 a.m. on Tokyo MX, Tochigi TV, Gunma TV, and BS11, followed by Chuukyou TV and ABC TV. The anime will also stream on d Anime Store on October 5 at 1:00 a.m. and other platforms beginning October 9 at 12:00 a.m.

Cast
Masaru Rokuta (Tenchou): Kentarou Itou (Golden Kamuy)
Kiyoshi Gomikawa (Kyonshii): Jun Fukushima (Rikei ga Koi ni Ochita no de Shoumei shitemita.)
Touya Yamada: Aya Yamane (Megami no Café Terrace)

Staff
Art Director: Hisae Arimoto (Hyakuren no Haou to Seiyaku no Valkyria art design)
Art Design: Hironori Yamamoto (Bokutachi wa Benkyou ga Dekinai), Yumi Ishihara (Mononogatari)
Color Design: Haruko Nobori (Kakushigoto)
Director of Photography: Fumito Nanba (Spy Kyoushitsu)
Editing: Nobutaka Maki (Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon Crystal)
Setting Research: RetroPC Foundation
Sound Effects: Yuuji Furuya (Gyakuten Sekai no Denchi Shoujo)
Recording Adjustment: Daiki Yamaki (Ore wo Suki nano wa Omae dake ka yo)

Takashi Sakuma (Sword Art Online: Alicization assistant director) is helming the anime at Silver. Tatsuya Takahashi (Saihate no Paladin series composition) and original creator Tamiki Wakaki (Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai) are credited for the main story. Masakatsu Sasaki (Tonikaku Kawaii) is designing the characters and Yashikin (Ore ga Suki nano wa Imouto dakedo Imouto ja Nai) is composing the music.

Wakaki, Misato Mitsumi (To Heart 2), and AQUAPLUS' Tatsuki Amazuyu (Utawarerumono) originally began publishing the title as a doujinshi at Comiket 91 in 2016. The trio released seven volumes until Comiket 97 in 2019.

Kadokawa acquired the manga for commercial publication and shipped the first volume under its Kadokawa Shoten Tankobon label in September 2020. The second volume shipped in November 2021. Web manga platform ComicWalker also serializes the manga.

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Source: Press Release

12 Comments Recent Comments

The changes are necessary,by itself the manga cant stand.Take it as an anime original.

Wakaki has been brought back to the surface after 10 long years....

Sep 18, 2023 7:41 AM by genesic123

@DarkDooM2

i already corrected myself lol

Sep 11, 2023 7:45 AM by EcchiGodMamster

@EcchiGodMamster There would be no point in making this anime if it took place in the 2000s. The 90s is where the bishoujo game boom took place. "Kanon" being shown is probably from before the time slip took place.

Sep 11, 2023 4:20 AM by DarkDooM2

@Hoppy

don't you know?

how else are people going to be enticed to buy the BDs if they don't first piss people off by changing half the content?

Sep 10, 2023 9:10 PM by EcchiGodMamster

@Nachtwandler_21

oh nvm, Kanon came out in June 1999... so i mean.. its essentially a 2000s franchise

Sep 10, 2023 9:07 PM by EcchiGodMamster

This reminds me of Bokutachi no Remake which I found really bad.. but I always find the concept (which is shared with this anime) interesting: time travel + game making. So I hope this one does it well.

Sep 10, 2023 4:07 PM by Shirayukin

What audience are they going for with all of these changes? It definitely isn't manga readers and the artstyle suggests not people even knowledgeable about 90's VNs or other bishoujo games either.

Sep 10, 2023 1:31 PM by Hoppy

@Nachtwandler_21

The artsytle theyre using in the games is 2000s, not to mention the actual games like Kanon, so it'd be weird if it takes place in the 90s lol

Sep 10, 2023 11:51 AM by EcchiGodMamster

Interesting. I don't know too much about the manga, but the anime is seemingly going to be its own thing. They added a time travel aspect, changed the main character, and are seemingly(?) reducing the more pornographic aspects of the bishoujo games they are making.
I just hope it'll still be an accurate depiction of the 90s bishoujo game scene, without making it all-ages. Back then those games were hard on erotic content.

Sep 10, 2023 10:58 AM by DarkDooM2

Can't say I'm fond of the changes shown in the trailer compared to the manga, but I'll still give it a watch since I loved it a lot. I like the references sprinkled in the background like Kanon, ATRI, and Doukyuusei!!

Sep 10, 2023 10:39 AM by Cakethatisall

@EcchiGodMamster as far as I understand, main story still takes place in 90s but MC travelled to the past from our time.

Sep 10, 2023 8:16 AM by Nachtwandler_21

so this takes place in the early/mid 2000s lol?

Sep 10, 2023 7:12 AM by EcchiGodMamster