A new original anime project is coming from the folks at Cygames with Bang Brave Bang Bravern. There wasn’t a lot known about it but at the launch of the site and social back in May 2023, we got some staff confirmations, a promotional video, and a key visual below. The series has Masami Obari directing the original work at Cygames Pictures. Keigo Koyanagi handling the series composition while Kouichi Motomura is handling the character designs.
The show saw a January 11th, 2024 premiere with Crunchyroll picking up the series for simulcast. The Japanese side is doing some new promotion for the show with its first preview of the twelfth episode ahead of its March 28th, 2024 debut.
The Japanese cast includes:
- Ryōta Suzuki as Isami Ao
- Yōhei Azakami as Lewis Smith
- Saya Aizawa as Lulu
- Yume Miyamoto as Hibiki Rio
- Ai Kakuma as Miyu Katо̄
- Kaori Maeda as Honoko Suzumigi
- Yukiyo Fujii as Karen Aldrin
- Nanako Mori as Nina Kowalski
- Kenta Miyake as Hal King
- Tomoyuki Shimura as Thomas J. Prahmman
Check out the official site and Twitter.
Plot Concept: In the future, humanity wages war with giant humanoid weapons called Titanostrides. Isami Ao of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force and Lewis Smith of the United States Marine Corps meet on the battlefield in Oahu, Hawaii. An enemy aircraft attacks, scattering their forces. To survive the battle and save their friends, unlikely comrades must find the courage to defeat this new threat.
