The official website for Shinkalion Change the World, the new television anime from Takara Tomy's Shinkalion toy line, revealed two additional cast members on Thursday. The new characters are employees of the Super Evolution Railway Development Organization.
Masahiko Tanaka as Kaiji Hama
Image via Shinkalion Change Anime the World website
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Jirō Saitō as Tango Kawagoe
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The anime will premiere on April 7 at 8:30 a.m. (April 6 at 7:30 p.m.). EDT) on TV Tokyo and its affiliates, then on BS TV Tokyo that evening.
Anime stars:
Kenichiro Komaya (Kizuna no Allele) is directing the anime at Sister studio Signal.MD and Production IG Eiji Umehara (Vivy-Fluorite Eye's Song-) is overseeing the film's script with assistant Daisuke Ishibashi (Tenjho Tenge). Character designers include Shiori Asaka and Niina Morita. Akira Kirishiki is the mechanical designer, Masafumi Mima is the sound director, and Yūgo Kanno is composing the music. Shogakukan Music & Digital Entertainment will return to handle the CG animation. Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions is again credited as producer.
The anime series is also receiving a manga adaptation on April 4.
The first Shinkalion anime premiered in January 2018 and ended in 2018. June 2019. The franchise also has an anime film titled Gekijō-ban Shinkansen Henkei Robo Shinkalion: Mirai Kara Shinsoku no ALFA -X (Shinkansen-Transforming Robot Shinkalion the Movie: The Mythively Fast ALFA-X That Came From Future), opened in Japan in December 2019.
Shinkansen Henkei Robo Shinkalion Z, the series' latest anime, premiered in April 2021 and ended in March 2022.
Source: anime Shinkalion Change the World website, Natalie Comics