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Canaan

Canaan

20096.61 Season13 EpisodesEnded

Overview

Two years ago, Shibuya was ravaged by a biological terrorist attack using the deadly Ua virus. Maria Osawa was saved when her father inoculated her against the virus, but is left with partial amnesia from the shock. She works as a cameraman when she reunites with a girl named Canaan in Shanghai, China. A gifted assassin with synesthesia, she is under orders from an unknown organization for a yet unspecified mission

Created by Mari Okada
Written by Mari Okada, Kinoko Nasu
Produced by Kenji Horikawa, Jiro Ishii, Shigeru Saito
NetworksTokyo MX

Top Cast

Miyuki Sawashiro

Miyuki Sawashiro

Canaan (voice)

Maaya Sakamoto

Maaya Sakamoto

Alphard Al Shua (voice)

Yoshino Nanjo

Yoshino Nanjo

Maria Oosawa (voice)

Kenji Hamada

Kenji Hamada

Minoru Minorikawa (voice)

Akio Otsuka

Akio Otsuka

Siam (voice)

Hiroaki Hirata

Hiroaki Hirata

Santana (voice)

Rie Tanaka

Rie Tanaka

Liang Qi (voice)

Haruka Tomatsu

Haruka Tomatsu

Yunyun (voice)

Junko Minagawa

Junko Minagawa

Yuri Natsume (voice)

Mamiko Noto

Mamiko Noto

Hakkou (voice)

Themes & Keywords

assassinterrorist groupvirusanimebased on visual novelgirls' love (gl)

About Canaan

Canaan is a animation, drama, action & adventure series that first aired in 2009 exploring themes of assassin, terrorist group, virus, anime, based on visual novel, girls' love (gl). Created by Mari Okada, it stars Miyuki Sawashiro, Maaya Sakamoto, Yoshino Nanjo. Two years ago, Shibuya was ravaged by a biological terrorist attack using the deadly Ua virus. Maria Osawa was saved when her father inoculated her against the virus, but is left with partial amnesia from the shock. She works as a cameraman when she reunites with a girl named Canaan in Shanghai, China. A gifted assassin with synesthesia, she is under orders from an unknown organization for a yet unspecified mission

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