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Cagaster of an Insect Cage
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Yoshimasa Hosoya
Kidou (voice)
12 eps
Kana Hanazawa
Iri (voice)
12 eps
Natsuki Hanae
Ahato (voice)
12 eps
Takahiro Sakurai
Franz (voice)
12 eps
Daisuke Namikawa
Griffith (voice)
12 eps
Toshiyuki Morikawa
Mario(voice)
12 eps
Kazuyuki Okitsu
Jin (voice)
12 eps
Junichi Suwabe
Kashim (voice)
12 eps
Ai Kayano
Aisha (voice)
12 eps
Yasuhiro Mamiya
Adham (voice)
12 eps
Daiki Yamashita
Naji (voice)
12 eps
Akari Kito
Lydi (voice)
12 eps
Tomokazu Sugita
Lazaro (voice)
12 eps
Aoi Yuuki
Carla (voice)
12 eps
Kohsuke Toriumi
Petrov (voice)
12 eps
Tomohiro Shiozaki
Hadi (voice)
12 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Cagaster of an Insect Cage actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Cagaster of an Insect Cage reads strongest on Spectacle, Character Depth and World Building.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
At the end of the 21st century, a rare disease called “Cagaster” broke out, turning humans into huge insects. Two-thirds of the earth‘s population was devoured by these insects before humanity made a decision: they must exterminate the infected people. In the year 2125 – thirty years after the discovery of Cagaster – at the edge of the desert close to the “cage” of the insects, a young pest exterminator named Kidou finds a man close to death due to the wounds by insects. The man entrusts his daughter Ilie to Kidou and asks him to search for the girl‘s mother…
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Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Created by
- Kachou HashimotoCreator
Executive production
- Taiki SakuraiExecutive Producer
Writing
- Shuuichi KouyamaWriter
Cinematography
- Shintaro NakamuraDirector of Photography
Music
- Hitomi KuroishiOriginal Music Composer
Where to watch
Streaming
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