GoHands’ Hand Shakers Anime’s 1st Promo Video

The first promo video for the new anime from team behind K Project has been released. Gohands’ new original anime project Hand Shakers TV anime will premiere on January 2017. It is a joined project among animation studio GoHands, production company Frontier Works, and publisher Kadokawa. The first promotional video for Hand Shakers has been streamed by Frontier Works and it reveals the show’s cast.

The video also reveals GoHands is in charge of the original planning, and GOON TRAX is composing the music. GoHands, Frontier Works, and Kadokawa are all credited with the original work.

“protect it, with these hands” is the tagline on the key visual posted on the Hand Shakers official website and it depicts Osaka’s famous Dōtonboribashi bridge.

The anime takes place in Osaka in “AD20XX,” and revolves around the Hand Shakers — partners who can summon “Nimrodes,” weapons born from their deep psyche by joining hands. In order to grant the pair’s wish, the Hand Shakers compete with and fight other Hand Shaker pairs. The top pair will then meet and challenge “God.”

The video lists the following voice actors without associated roles:

The English text on the anime title logo reads:

They, the receivers of the Revelation of Babel. They, the challengers to God. They, who inevitably throw themselves into battle with their partners. What does God want from them? And did they want powers exceeding that of Gods? The chosen ones, their souls linked, join hand and hand for the Ziggurat where the fighting shall ensue.