Staff
Director:
Kenji Yasuda
Woo Hyun Park
Series Composition: Mayori Sekijima
Music: Kô Ôtani
Original creator: Yuu Watase
Character Design:
Lee Seong Shin
Masahiro Aizawa
Art Director: Seo Gu Lee
Chief Animation Director:
Chieko Miyakawa
Noriko Ogura
Yae Ootsuka
Sound Director: Tsuyoshi Takahashi
Director of Photography:
Maki Ueda
Soo-Yeon Lee
Executive producer:
Fumihiko Kimura
Gorō Shinjuku (Dax Production)
Hideyuki Nanba (Dentsu)
Shinsaku Hatta (TV Tokyo)
Shun'ichi Okabe
Producer:
Jun Takei (Bandai Visual)
Kenjiro Kawahito (Satelight)
Mika Shimizu (Dentsu)
Ryōsuke Ōno (TV Tokyo)
Takema Okamura (Sotsu)
Yong Ho Kim (JM Animation)
Yuka Sakurai (Lantis)
Color design: Masato Takagi
Editing: Hyun Hee Lim
Theme Song Performance:
OLDCODEX (ED)
Sphere (OP)

Cast
Nobuhiko Okamoto as Arata Hinohara
Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Arata
Akira Ishida as Harunawa
Ayahi Takagaki as Kotoha
Daisuke Namikawa as Hiruko
Go Inoue as Kugura
Hibiku Yamamura as Kikuri/Hime-Ou
Junko Minagawa as Kanate
Mamoru Miyano as Yataka
Ryohei Kimura as Masato Kadowaki
Souichiro Hoshi as Yorunami
Tatsuhisa Suzuki as Akachi
Yuuki Ono as Kannagi

somewhat PV


Plot
In a mythical world where humans and gods co-exist, a ceremony marking the new governing princess is about to occur for the first time in 60 years. Only a girl from the Hime Clan may take this position, but the lack of females born to this family means that a boy called Arata must pose for the role. During the ceremony, the Twelve Shinsho, the wielders of special swords called Hayagami, led by Kannagi, betray the princess by trying to kill her and Arata. Arata escapes and runs into the Kando Forest. He emerges from the forest and finds himself in the alley in present day Japan. He has a run-in with the police because he is shirtless but is saved by Nao, a girl who claims to be his sister.
Meanwhile in modern-day Japan, a boy named Arata Hinohara is starting his new life in high school. He wants to put memories of his difficult past behind him, but things aren’t going to be simple when Kadowaki, the bully from his old school, emerges. Kadowaki's bullying continues, and Hinohara discovers that his friend, Suguru, allied with Kadowaki and covered his desk with glue. Feeling angry and betrayed, he walks into an alley, and soon finds that is no longer in Japan, but rather a new world, Amawakuni, the other Arata's home. He is helped by Arata's grandmother and Kotoha, Arata's childhood friend. When Kannagi searches their house, Hinohara comes across a rusted sword and activates its power and becomes a sho. The sword is a Hayagami, or god, named Tsukuyo.
Kotoha gives Hinohara a stone (michihi no tama). He is arrested, and in a jail cell, talks to Arata through the stone. He discovers the truth behind the princess' assassination, and both realize that they are in each other's worlds and being mistaken for each other. Hinohara is speedily tried, found guilty, and exiled to Gatoya Island, a place compared to a living hell. On the trip to the island Kotoha tags along and gives him his Hayagami. Also because of the stones power he is able to talk to the princess (who is just barely alive) and she asks him to govern the world as otherwise there will only be war and bloodshed.
On the Gatoya, he meets two friends, Kanate and Ginchi, who try to steal his belongings and Kotoha. Kotoha soon disappears, and Hinohara, desperate to find her, trades everyday items from Japan for information. He discovers that Tsutuga, the warden of Gatoya Island, is a sho, and confronts him. Hinohara learns that Tsutuga was betrayed and empathizes with him. Tsutsuga decides to give his Hayagami to Hinohara, and becomes one with his Hayagami. Hinohara uses his new power to then restore the island. He and Kotoha escape with their new friends, Kanate and Ginchi, to the mainland to restore order and save the princess.

This post has been edited by kenjixx: Apr 23 2013, 09:38 PM

Thats one hell of a plot there

Kadowaki really looked a bit different