#Level X Webtoon Gets Light Anime Adaptation

A light anime adaptation of the Lockdown Zone: Level X webtoon has been announced. It will premiere in Japan on September 6 JST (effectively September 7 at at !:56 AM JST).

The lead voice actors are Sora Amamiya and Ryota Osaka, who are voicing the characters Ryoka and Shuhei, respectively. The voice performances are previewed in the teaser trailer.

Hikaru Sato is directing the light anime, which has Imagica Infos and Imageworks Studio credited for animation production and nanogram.inc credited for production assistance.

Lockdown Zone: Level X began as a novel in 2017. It has inspired a manga written by Oishi Romy/Dr.peep and illustrated by meshe, which debuted in 2020 on on Web Action Comics. The webtoon by taskey STUDIO followed in 2022.

DENPA publishes the manga in English and describes the plot as:

Ryoka is awakened by flurry of text messages from her mother! Panicked and rushed, Mom is clearly concerned for Ryoka’s safety, but she is not to keen on letting her daughter know why.  Her reasoning being that nothing could really properly describe what is happening!

The world might be ending! And there might be a massive new life-form on the roof of their apartment building!

This is the third light anime project from AnimationID, a joint venture between Imagica Infos and Dai Nippon Printing (DNP), after Moriarty’s Perfect Crime and Maarui Kanojo to Zannen na Kareshi (both of which also premiered in 2024). Light anime are essentially motion comics, and according to Imagica Infos‘ press release, the name stems from how the initiative is responding to the “consumer needs” of wanting to enjoy a variety of anime quickly, as well as its desire to deliver lower-cost anime in a “timely’ manner. 

DNP has described light anime as its way of dealing with the cost of anime production and the industry’s human resource issue. It also said, “While we are witnessing anime adaptations of a limited number of popular manga, there are also many excellent manga with a core fan base that have not been adapted into anime, due to the long production period and enormous costs.”

AnimationID began pitching its services in August 2022.

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Source: AnimationID YouTube channel