King of Thorn

May 1, 2010

1h 49m

★ 6.6

Overview

A mysterious virus, nicknamed Medusa, is spreading around Japan, turning its victims into stone. Given the impossibility of finding an immediate cure, the government opts for cryopreserving a select group of patients until they come up with a solution. Kasumi, one of the chosen ones, has been asleep for years and her awakening, more than a bed of roses, is a bed of thorns, and happens in the midst of total chaos where monstrous creatures lie in wait all around.

Genres

Fantasy

Animation

Science Fiction

Production Companies

KADOKAWA

Bandai Visual

SUNRISE

Enterbrain

TV Tokyo

dentsu

Sony PCL

King of Thorn Trailers

Cast

Kasumi Ishiki (voice)

Kana Hanazawa

Alexandro Pecchino (voice)

Kohsei Hirota

Alice (voice)

Misaki Kuno

Ivan Coral Vega (voice)

Tsutomu Isobe

Katherine Turner (voice)

Sayaka Ohara

Laura Owen (voice)

Ayako Kawasumi

Marco Owen (voice)

Toshiyuki Morikawa

Peter Stevens (voice)

Shin-ichiro Miki

Shizuku Ishiki (voice)

Eri Sendai

Timothy Laisenbach (voice)

Akiko Yajima

Walter (voice)

Akiko Yajima

Ron Portman (voice)

Kenji Nomura

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