Alfred Bester??!
I don't think he wrote this. Did he? Does the anime have any relation to any of his scifi works? I haven't seen it.
shareAlfred Bester wrote a sci-fi novel called The Stars my Destination which is similar to The Count of Monte Cristo.
That's it. Characters names and lives are very different. The sci-fi elements are different.
You have to remember IMDb gets it's info submitted by users and that means a lot of mistakes can be made. Listing Alfred Bester as writer is one of them.
Josh