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Where Does the Doomsday Train Go? Anime Unveils Ad, Manga Adaptation, April 1 Debut

The advance screening for Girls und Panzer and Shirobako director Tsutomu Mizushima's original anime Where Does the Doomsday Train Go? (Shūmatsu Train Doko e Iku?) debuted a new commercial on Sunday. The commercial announces that the anime will premiere on April 1.

The staff also announced that Torimura will start serializing a manga adaptation, told from Akira's perspective, on the free manga website KadoComi on March 25.

The anime will premiere on the AT-X channel on April 1 at 9:00 p.m. (8:00 a.m. EDT). It will also run on Tokyo MX, KBS Kyoto, Sun TV, and BS11.

The anime's story is set in a town in a not-so-ordinary countryside, where a big and strange occurrence is happening to its residents. But a young girl named Shizuru Chikura has a strong desire to see her lost friend again. Shizuru and three other girls board an abandoned train, and they set out to the outside world, where survival is not certain. What awaits them at the last stop of the "Doomsday Train?"

The anime stars:

• Azumi Waki as Nadeshiko Hoshi, nicknamed Nadeko
• Erisa Kuon as Reimi Kuga
• Hina Kino as Akira Shinonome
• Chika Anzai as Shizuru Chikura

Tsutomu Mizushima (Girls und Panzer, Shirobako) is directing the anime at EMT Squared. Michiko Yokote (Shirobako, Prison School, Cowboy Bebop, Rurouni Kenshin) is overseeing the series scripts, and Asako Nishida (Land of the Lustrous, Love Live! School idol project) is designing the characters based on namo's original designs, and serving as chief animation director.

The other staff members include:

• Chief Producer: Fumihiko Suganuma
• Art Director: Masanobu Nomura
• Color Design: Tomoko Koyama
• Director of Photography: Jiro Tazawa
• Editing: Masahiro Gotō
• Sound Effects: Yasumasa Koyama
• Recording Coordination: Masayuki Yamaguchi (name romanization not confirmed)
• Sound Director: Tsutomu Mizushima
• Music: Miho Tsujibayashi
• Music Production: Flying Dog

Rei Nakashima performs the opening theme song "GA-TAN GO-TON."

Kadokawa announced the anime in commemoration of Railway Day, the 150th anniversary of Japan's first railway, in October 2022.

Source: Press release

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