{"id":155405,"date":"2025-11-23T12:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T12:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/155405\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T12:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T12:52:08","slug":"dark-machine-the-animation-series-unveils-cast-staff-2026-debut-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/155405\/","title":{"rendered":"Dark Machine the Animation Series Unveils Cast, Staff, 2026 Debut – News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The “Dark Machine Project Presentation” livestream on Sunday unveiled the teaser promotional video, \u00a0key visual, main cast, full staff, and 2026 premiere of Dark Machine the Animation<\/a>, the original\u00a0anime for the Dark Machine game and anime\u00a0project<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"darkmachine\"Image via Dark Machine the Animation’s X\/Twitter account<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a9Project Carbuncle\/ DARK MACHINE Committee<\/p>\n

The anime will star:\u00a0<\/p>\n

Kensh\u014d Ono<\/a> as Kairi<\/p>\n

\"dark1\"Image via Comic Natalie<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a9Project Carbuncle\/ DARK MACHINE Committee<\/p>\n

Miyuki Sawashiro<\/a> as Rudora<\/p>\n

\"dark2\"Image via Comic Natalie<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a9Project Carbuncle\/ DARK MACHINE Committee<\/p>\n

K\u014dki Uchiyama<\/a> as Shinn<\/p>\n

\"dark3\"Image via Comic Natalie<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a9Project Carbuncle\/ DARK MACHINE Committee<\/p>\n

Riho Sugiyama<\/a> as Bran<\/p>\n

\"dark4\"Image via Comic Natalie<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a9Project Carbuncle\/ DARK MACHINE Committee<\/p>\n

Saya Aizawa<\/a> as Isana<\/p>\n

\"dark5\"Image via Comic Natalie<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a9Project Carbuncle\/ DARK MACHINE Committee<\/p>\n

Y\u016bichi Nakamura<\/a> as Ajima<\/p>\n

\"dark6\"Image via Comic Natalie<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a9Project Carbuncle\/ DARK MACHINE Committee<\/p>\n

The staff for the anime’s pilot trailer that premiered<\/a> at Comic-Con International<\/a> in July 2024, has been confirmed to work on the television anime. Kazumi Terada<\/a> is directing the anime at\u00a0Production +h.<\/a>\u00a0The overall project credits\u00a0Code Geass<\/a> director Gor\u014d Taniguchi<\/a> as the creative producer, and Macross<\/a> artist Hidetaka Tenjin<\/a> as the chief mechanical designer.\u00a0Keiichi Yano is the project’s creator.\u00a0“Team Carbuncle” featuring\u00a0Takaaki Suzuki<\/a>, Tatsuhiko Urahata<\/a>, and Atsuo Ishino<\/a>, that was listed for writing credits in the pilot trailer, is in charge of the anime’s series scripts with the addition of Satohito Sata<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Additional newly announced staff are:<\/p>\n

The anime will be available for TV and streaming via\u00a0Fuji TV<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The anime will have its own unique world setting, which will include\u00a0Dark Machine\u00a0being a popular gaming metaverse, and will take place “in the not too distant future.” The anime is planned for global distribution.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Dark Machine\u00a0“asynchronous big team arena shooter” game was announced in 2023. It is slated for release this year, with Early Access starting in 2024.<\/p>\n

The game’s staff describe the story:<\/p>\n

The year is 2079.<\/p>\n

Humankind is living in an energy bubble after Dr. Robert Palmer discovered the Palmer crystal to give humankind all of the energy it would ever need and more. Unfortunately, not all of humankind has benefited from this hyper energy source and underground battles for this energy have developed at a global scale. The factory robots that have been helping to cultivate this energy of the future have been transformed to fighting mechs by these undergrounds and they are fighting for huge stakes.<\/p>\n

However, dark energy is said to reside in small quantities in the Palmer crystal. The use of hyper AI technologies was used in an attempt to harness this dark energy and use it for battle advantages. It is currently unclear whether this dark energy can be controlled by mechs\u2026<\/p>\n

Taniguchi is the creative producer on the game, and Tenjin is the chief mechanical designer. Yuya Saito is the game director and Koji Hakuta is the producer. The game is a 7-versus-7 mech third-person shooting game.<\/p>\n

The staff have raised more than US$8.7 million from more than 6,000 investors including\u00a0Tencent<\/a>, web3 game platform Immutable, and blockchain company Sui. The staff are developing the game with Unreal Engine 5. The game will feature the blockchain-based in-game currency MACHINA ($MXNA), and will also feature NFT asset ownership and an NFT marketplace for direct sales and peer-to-peer exchanges. Players will still be able to install and play the game without having to purchase any NFTs, and will also get free NFTs to start playing the game. Decentralized tournaments will be integral to the gameplay.<\/p>\n

Tenjin is an illustrator and mechanical artist whose works include\u00a0Macross Zero<\/a>, Aquarion<\/a>, Noein – to your other self<\/a>, Hellsing Ultimate<\/a>, and Macross Frontier<\/a>. He also drafted mechanical art for the Gundam<\/a> and Space Battleship Yamato<\/a> franchises.<\/p>\n

Taniguchi has also directed such anime as\u00a0Planetes<\/a>, Maria the Virgin Witch<\/a>, Active Raid<\/a>, One Piece Film Red<\/a>, s-CRY-ed<\/a>, revisions, ID-0<\/a>, Infinite Ryvius<\/a>, and Estab-Life: Revengers’ Road<\/a>, among others.<\/p>\n

Sources: Dark Machine Project Presentation livestream<\/a>, Comic Natalie<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The “Dark Machine Project Presentation” livestream on Sunday unveiled the teaser promotional video, \u00a0key visual, main cast, full…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":{"0":"post-155405","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}