#Square Enix’s Deep Insanity Mixed Media Project Includes Anime, Manga, and Game

Square Enix has an ambitious new endeavor on the way in the form of the Deep Insanity mixed media project. In addition to a manga that’s currently being serialized, the project will include a game that’s due out this September and a TV anime set to broadcast in Japan this October. 

In Deep Insanity, an unexplained disease called Randolph Syndrome has people falling into comas suddenly. At the same time as the disease is spreading, a massive underground world called Asylum—which appears to be the source of the disease—is discovered in Antarctica. Strange creatures and unknown resources await within, and people set forth to solve the problems of Randolph Syndrome and obtain all the knowledge (and wealth) that comes along with the amazing new genetic information below. 

The story comes from Norimitsu Kaiho (series composition for Akudama Drive, Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka) and Makoto Fukami (Berserk, PSYCHO-PASS), and the manga—titled Deep Insanity: Nirvana—that kicked off back in February comes from artist Etorouji Shiono. 

The manga follows a boy with special resistance to the illness and a do-it-yourselfer from Antarctica who unintentionally take on the challenge of exploring the mysteries of Randolph Syndrome and Asylum.

The boy, Sergiu Sol:

Hildegard Olympiada Yamada:

Each piece of media will represent stories in different timelines, and the upcoming anime takes place between the manga and game.

Here’s a teaser for the anime, titled Deep Insanity THE LOST CHILD:

SILVER LINK is handling animation production for the anime, with Shin Onuma (Fate/kaleid liner PRISMA ILLYA) directing, Kento Shimoyama (Armed Girl’s Machiavellism) handling series composition, and Kazuyuki Yamayoshi (The Misfit of Demon King Academy) designing characters. Fumiyuki Go is sound director and Mirai Kodai Gakudan is handling music. 

First cast reveal:

Daniel Kai Shigure

VA: Hiro Shimono (Conny Springer in Attack on Titan)

As for the game, Deep Insanity: Asylum takes the story to a timeline in which 540 million people have been rendered comatose as a result of Randolph Syndrome. Wu Inominetas is the lone survivor of a medical facility massacre, and the game is due out on iOS, Android, and PC this September after an Android demo debuts in July. 

Wu Inominetas

VA: Yuichiro Umehara (Goblin Slayer in GOBLIN SLAYER)

Teaser: 

The game’s theme song, “Madoromi,” comes from Hololive VTubers Amane Kanata and Tokoyama Towa. The official project website is live today, so stay tuned for more on all of the pieces to the puzzle. 

Via Comic Natalie

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Joseph Luster is the Games and Web editor at Otaku USA Magazine. You can read his comics at subhumanzoids. Follow him on Twitter @Moldilox.