Hatanaka joins as Tsukumo Umikaze, the pilot of the Shinkalion N700S robot Kamome.
The official website for Shinkalion Change the World, the new television anime from Takara Tomy's Shinkalion toy line, revealed on Thursday that Tasuku Hatanaka will voice the character Tsukumo Umikaze. Tsukumo is a second-year high school student who pilots the Shinkalion N700S Kamome robot.
Tasuku Hatanaka as Tsukumo Umikaze Image via Shinkalion Change the World anime website
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Image via Shinkalion anime website
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The anime premiered 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 later that evening.
Anime stars:
Kenichirō Komaya (Kizuna no Allele) is directing the anime at sister studios Signal.MD and Production I.G. Eiji Umehara (Vivy-Fluorite Eye's Song-) is supervising the series' scripts with Daisuke Ishibashi (Tenjho Tenge) assisting. 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 is returning to handle the CG animation. Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions is again credited with production.
GRe4N BOYZ (formerly GReeeeN) performed the opening theme song “Senkō Hayabusa” which is themed after the Hayabusa bullet train. meiyo, THE ALFEE, and Sayaka Yamamoto performed the ending theme songs for the show. 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 Kamome bullet train.
A manga adaptation of the anime debuted in Shueisha's Saikyō Jump magazine on April 4.
The first Shinkalion anime premiered in January 2018 and ended in June 2019. The franchise also spawned an anime film titled Gekijō-ban Shinkansen Henkei Robo Shinkalion: Mirai Kara Shinsoku no ALFA-X (Shinkansen-Transforming Robot Shinkalion the Movie: The Mythically Fast ALFA-X That Came From the Future), which premiered in Japan in December 2019.
The Shinkansen Henkei Robo Shinkalion Z anime premiered in April 2021 and ended in March 2022.
Source: Shinkalion Change the World anime website, Natalie comic
