The official Twitter account for the City Hunter new anime film City Hunter The Movie: Angel Dust (Gekijо̄ban City Hunter: Tenshi no Namida) of the City Hunter series revealed on Wednesday that the film will feature a cross-appearance from Lupine and Jigen in the Lupine III series, as well as Tama and friends: Tama the cat of Uchi no Tama Shirimasen ka?
The film’s new characters and cast include (pictured below, from top left to bottom right):
Miyuki Sawashiro as Angie, an overseas film producer. Angie went to Japan to film a movie about her cat traveling around Japan, but the cat ran away, so she sought the help of City Hunter Kenyuu Horiuchi as Shin Kaibara, a soldier leader. scarred mercenary on the battlefield who raised an orphaned Ryō as a warrior Tomokazu Seki as Pirarucu, member of the assassination team”Wetworks”Subaru Kimura as Espada, a member of the assassination team”Wetworks”
Image via City Hunter The Movie: Angel Dust Twitter account
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Returning in the film are the three thief sisters Kisugi from the anime Cat’s Eye. Keiko Toda and Chika Sakamoto will return from the original Cat’s Eye television anime as Hitomi and Ai. Rica Fukami plays Rui. (Toshiko Fujita, who played Rui in the original Cat’s Eye anime, passed away in December 2018.)
Ryōta Yamasato from comedy duo Nankai Candies will voice a guy who flirts with Angie and asks her out on a date.
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FANTASTICS from EXILE TRIBE will guest-star as a mohawk-haired suspect in a flashback by Saeko Nogami of the Metropolitan Police Department’s Special Investigations Division.
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Pictures past City Hunter The Movie: Angel Dust Twitter account
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The film will open in Japan on September 8. Anime Limited will screen the film in North America, the UK and Ireland in 2024.
City Hunter franchise director Kenji Kodama is directing the new film at Sunrise and The Answer Studio Co., Ltd. Yasuyuki Mutō (Deadman Wonderland) is writing the script. Aniplex is distributing the film.
The film will revolve around Ryo Saeba’s past and the death of his former partner Hideyuki Makimura. It will also revolve around Angel Dust, which was also important in the original series.
Returning voice actors include Akira Kamiya as Ryo Saeba, Kazue Ikura as Kaori Makimura, Harumi Ichiryūsai as Saeko Nogami, Tesshō Genda as Umibōzu, and Mami Koyama as Miki.
TM Network will perform the opening theme song “Whatever Comes” and the ending theme song “Get Wild” (the ending theme song of the original anime series).
The new anime film celebrates the 35th anniversary of the TV anime’s debut.
Tsukasa Hojo’s City Hunter manga series ran from 1985 to 1991 and had 35 volumes. The manga has inspired four television anime series, one anime film, and several video and TV specials including the original 2015 anime DVD. ADV Films released most of these anime projects in North America. The original anime premiered in April 1987. The City Hunter: Shinjuku Private Eyes animated film premiered in Japan in February 2019.
Discotek Media announced the licenses for the original City Hunter anime projects and the recent City Hunter: Shinjuku film Private Eyes in April 2019. Crunchyroll is streaming the series, specials, and TV anime. City Hunter.
Coamix and Imagineer’s MangaHot website and app are publishing the City Hunter manga in English.
MangaHot describes the story:
Ryo Saeba, aka City Hunter. A cleaner who attends to every customer’s needs. He will do anything from bodyguard to contract killer, but he will only take the job if there is a beautiful woman involved, or the client’s sincerity takes his heart. vibrate. Together with his partner Kaori Makimura, the younger sister of his late best friend, Ryo fights the evil that haunts the darkness of the city!!
Jackie Chan starred in a 1993 Hong Kong live-action film very loosely adapted from the original manga. A live-action South Korean television series adaptation premiered in 2011, and Hulu streamed the version in the United States. A French live-action film adaptation opened in France in February 2019. A separate Chinese live-action film adaptation has been green-lit in China.
Source: City Hunter The Movie: accountComic Natalie
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