The official website for Shinkalion Change the World, the new television anime of Takara Tomy's Shinkalion toy line, revealed two new actors and characters as well as the Shinkalion robot on Thursday.
The newly announced cast members are:
Tsumi Fujiwara as Ten Uotora, a first-year high school student piloting the Shinkalion N700S Nozomi robot
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Shinkalion N700S Nozomi Blue Trailerform
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Masumi Tazawa as Shion Goryōkaku, a first-year high school student who pilots the Shinkalion H5 Hayabusa robot
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Shinkalion H5 Hayabusa Dozerform
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Image via Shinkalion anime website
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Anime stars:
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.
Kenichiro Komaya (Kizuna no Allele) is directing the anime at sister studios Signal.MD and Production IG. Eiji Umehara (Vivy-Fluorite Eye's Song-) is overseeing the series' 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 once again assigned to produce.
GRe4N BOYZ (formerly GReeeeN) will perform the opening song “Senkō Hayabusa” with the theme of the Hayabusa bullet train. meiyo, THE ALFEE and Sayaka Yamamoto will perform the film's ending themes. Meiyo's theme song is themed after the Nozomi bullet train and is titled”HOPE!HOPE!HOPE!”. THE ALFEE's theme song is modeled after the Kodama bullet train and Yamamoto's theme song is modeled after the Kodama bullet train. Simulated after the Kamome bullet train.
The anime's manga adaptation debuted in Shueisha's Saikyō Jump magazine on Thursday.
The first Shinkalion anime premiered in January 2018 and ended in 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), opening in Japan in December 2019.
Shinkansen Henkei Robo Shinkalion Z, the latest anime in the series, premiered in April 2021 and ended in March 2022.
Source: Shinkalion Change the World anime website, Natalie Comics