Estab-Life: Great Escape

Alternate Titles

エスタブライフ　グレイトエスケープ
Establishment in Life

Synopsis

“Is life too hard? Then just run away!”
In the distant future, humans have evolved into a variety of forms including beastmen, cyborgs, and demons. As part of the "Supernatural Renovation Project," the city of Tokyo has become split into different “Clusters” all separated by AI-controlled high walls that prevent people’s freedom of movement. As a result, each Cluster has developed its own culture and way of life. However, there are those who refuse to conform to the Cluster in which they were born, and they make a living by helping others like them to escape to different Clusters. Called “Nigashiya,” these escape artists use any tactic at their disposal to outsmart the AI and successfully move between Clusters, which for anyone else would be an impossible feat. The story of five such escape artists begins!

Background

Estab-Life is a mixed media project created and supervised by animation director Goro Taniguchi. It is being developed into a TV anime titled Estab-Life: Great Escape and a movie titled Estab-Life the Movie: Revengers' Road, each of which is being produced by Polygon Pictures. A mobile game developed by Square Enix titled Estab-Life: Unity Memories is also in the works.

The upcoming TV anime Estab-Life: Great Escape is being directed by Hiroyuki Hashimoto and also features Shoji Gatoh who is handling series composition and scripts, and Yoshiaki Fujisawa who is composing the music. The anime’s opening theme song is "Rana" by Mei-chan, and the ending theme song is "0" by GOOD ON THE REEL. The anime will premiere in Japan in April 2022 during Fuji TV’s Ultra+ programming block. Crunchyroll will stream the series overseas.

Characters

Ekua (Voiced by: Tomomi Mineuchi)
The protagonist of the series. Ekua is a seemingly ordinary 17-year-old girl. She is the leader of Nigashiya Extractors headquartered in Ochanomizu University City. On the surface, she is a high school student who attends school while also managing the coffee shop Vostok, but her history is completely unknown. She is a positive person who is always smiling and goes at her own pace.

Feresu (Voiced by: Rie Takahashi)
Feresu is a 17-year-old member of the demon tribe and a frontline member of Nigashiya. She is a quick-shot gun wizard with outstanding athleticism. On the surface, she is a high school student and is classmates with Ekua. She appears to be stubborn at first glance, but she is actually a pushover and is quite shy.

Maruteese (Voiced by: Maria Naganawa)
Maruteese is a 16-year-old slime girl. She is in charge of crafting and combat at Nigashiya. On the surface, she is a high school girl who is Ekua and Feresu’s junior. She is bright, lively, and energetic. She is in love with Ekua and leaves all the decision-making to her.

Aruga (Voiced by: Sho Hayami)
Aruga is an AI robot that smells like an old man. He is in charge of engineering and combat support at Nigashiya. He is equipped with missiles, lasers, and other useful tools. He normally works as a waiter robot at the coffee shop Volstok.

Urura (Voiced by: Shinichiro Miki)
Urura is a wolf beastman. He is the vanguard of Nigashiya. He has superhuman healing abilities and is a melee fighter who uses his threatening physical abilities and dual-sword fighting style. He normally works as a waiter and watchdog at the coffee shop Volstok. He has the most common sense out of anyone on the team. He is righteous and gentlemanly, but since he can only say “wan,” he’s never understood.

Music

• Opening Theme Song: "Rana" by Mei-chan
• Ending Theme Song: "0" by GOOD ON THE REEL

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• Original Concept/Creative Supervision: Goro Taniguchi
• Original Character Design: Yusuke Kozaki
• Director: Hiroyuki Hashimoto
• Series Composition/Script: Shoji Gatoh
• Concept Art: Kenichiro Tomiyasu (INEI)
• Music: Yoshiaki Fujisawa
• Production: Slowcurve Co., Ltd.
• Animation Production: Polygon Pictures