Funimation picked up the rights to the Listeners series some time ago and has done a lot of solid promotion for it both before it began and after its April 4th, 2020 debut. The latest bit to get added is one of the things I always welcome with the opening and closing sequences being streamed. They continue to be one of the best ways to entice someone into checking out a show with a good tune or some good looking designs through the animation.
This series features multiple theme songs as performed by series lead Rie Takahashi. We’ve had the first five of them added so far and now the sixth iteration, which you can check out below, has been added as it features the song “Trauma” for it.
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The project has Hiroaki Ando directing it based on the scripts overseen by Dai Sato. Shinpei Kamada is adapting the character designs with MAPPA handling the animation production. The project came together under the auspices of JIN and Dai Sato along with Taichi Hashimoto.
The Japanese cast includes Ayumu Murase as Ekowo Rekku, Rie Takahashi as Myū, Rie Kugimiya as Niru, Kana Hanzawa as Rozu, Junichi Suwabe as Denka, Yūto Uemura as Richie, Taku Yashiro as Ride, Reina Ueda as Janice, Banjou Ginga as Robert, Hiro Shimono as Hall, Atsuko Tanaka as Kim, Youko Honna as Wendy, Yukana as Lisa, Shigeru Chiba as Leo Marshall, Sayaka Ohara as Ein Neubauten, Yōko Hikasa as Stür Neubauten, Tomoyo Kurosawa as Zende Neubauten, Rina Satou as Sueru Rekku, and Chō as McGee.
The series features the opening theme song “Into the Blue’s” by ACCAMER while the ending theme song is “Muse” by series lead Rie Takahashi.
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Plot Concept: The “great adolescent symphony” is set in a world where nothing called “music” exists. A boy meets Myū, a mysterious girl with an empty audio input jack on her body. When she is plugged into an amp, something that will change the world is set in motion …. “Thus begins a journey of sound that will never be forgotten.”
