The Magnetic Rose story has not had its cast revealed yet.
The Blu-ray release from Discotek is undated at the moment but will be done in 1080p and will be getting a new translation done for the subtitles. The release will come with a few extras, including a ‘Making of Memories’ Featurette, the pilot films for Magnetic Rose, Stink Bomb, and Cannon Fodder and Interviews with Katsuhiro Otomo, Koji Morimoto and Tensai Okamura that we’ve seen before. It also looks like we’ll be getting an animated storyboard sequence for the Cannon Fodder piece along with translation and liner notes.
The video is titled CONNECTED. and depicts a high-school girl having a close encounter (of the third kind) with an unknown alien lifeform emerging from a UFO, and the headphones she is wearing becomes the connection that brings together the alien, herself and other strangers from around the world.
Mamoru Oshii produced the original draft and supervised the project,
Koji Morimoto was in charge of the direction and character design, and
A key visual advertisement for the short was placed in the concourse outside the ticket gates of Shibuya Station on the Tokyu Den-en-toshi Line from December 7 to 13, and early purchasers of the targeted products received a postcard (with replica signatures of Oshii and Morimoto) as a special gift.