While Tokyo MX will get an early look on December 29th, 2013 at Buddy Complex, the new series from Sunrise, most folks will get a better look at it when it debuts on January 6th. The series has a number of new promotional videos and commercials out to highlight what’s to come as well as a number of character images available on the newly opened official Japanese site. A manga adaption is kicking off on January 27th in Japan as well.
The production team behind it looks to be solid as well:
Original: Hajime Yatate
Director: Yasuhiro Tanabe
Series Composition: BC project
Character design and animation director: Tomoshige Inayoshi, Asako Inayoshi
Chief animator: Tomoyuki Fuji, Kanta Suzuki
Mechanical Design: Kanta Suzuki, Hiroki Tokuda, Tomohiro Kawahara
Set design: Takeshi Takahashi
Design Works: Noriyuki Jinguji, Masahiko Ikeda, Kenichi Morioka, Satoshi Kimura
Studio Director: Kazuo Miyake
VFX Director: Tomohiko Kawahara
Art Director: Koji Eto, Miho Sugiura
CG Producer: Eiji Inomoto
Color scheme: Sayoko Yokoyama
Director of Photography: Tsunetaka Ema
Edit: Daisuke Imai
Sound Director: Yota Tsuruoka
Music: Tatsuya Katou
Animation Production: Sunrise
Plot concept: Revolving around the friendship and coming-of-age of two boys. It begins with Aoba Watase, a boy who goes to high school in Tokyo and lives a carefree daily life. On the morning of his school’s opening ceremony after summer vacation, he goes to campus as usual, but he has a chance encounter with another boy. The other boy’s name is Jyunyou Dio Weinberg. Their encounter will soon alter the fate of the world.
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