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Godzilla Singular Point Anime's 2nd Teaser Previews Polkadot Stingray Ending Song
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
The official website for the Godzilla Singular Point anime series began streaming the second teaser promotional video for the anime on Tuesday. Netflix is streaming an English-subtitled version of the same video, which also reveals that the anime will have 13 episodes. The video reveals and previews the anime's ending theme song "Aoi" (Blue) by the rock band Polkadot Stingray, and it also previews the character voices for the first time.
The cast includes (Note: Some character name romanizations are not official):
Shōya Ishige as Yun Arikawa
Tarō Kikuchi as Haberu Katō, Yun's best friend
Wataru Takagi as Gorō Ōtaki, a scientist renowned worldwide
Ayako Takeuchi as Satomi Kanahara
Misaki Kuno as Pero 2, a dog-type artificial intelligence
Rie Kugimiya as Jung, an AI installed on Yun's smartphone
Yōhei Azakami as Shunya Satō, a bureaucrat from the Minstry of Foreign Affairs
Jin Urayama as Tsunetomo Yamamoto
Kotori Koiwai as Yukie Kanoko
Kenichi Suzumura as Takehiro Kai, a self-proclaimed independent journalist
Kaho Kouda as Keiei Lee
Ryotaro Okiayu as Bayler "BB" Barn, the head of the India-based Upala Research Institute
Runa Onodera as Rina Barn
Tomoyuki Shimura as Yoshiyasu Matsubara
Hiromichi Tezuka as Makita K. Nakagawa
Masako Isobe as Tilda Mira
Kenta Miyake as Michael Steven
The story will follow "the young geniuses Mei Kamino, a female researcher, and Yun Arikawa, a male engineer, as they take on an unprecedented threat with their companions."
The series will premiere on Tokyo MX and other channels in April 2021. Netflix will stream the anime exclusively worldwide, although Japan will receive it first.
Atsushi Takahashi (Blue Exorcist movie, Doraemon the Movie: "Kachi-Kochi" Nobita's Great Adventure in the Antarctic, Rideback) is directing the series at BONES and Orange, which are collaborating to combine "hand-drawn and CG animation styles." Japanese science-fiction novelist Toh Enjoe (The Empire of Corpses) is supervising and writing the scripts in his first television project. Kazue Kato, creator of the Blue Exorcist manga, is drafting the original character designs. Eiji Yamamori (Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, The Wind Rises key animator) is designing the Kaiju monsters. Satoshi Ishino (Date A Live, Excel Saga, No. 6) is adapting Kazue Kato's original character designs for animation. Kan Sawada (Doraemon films, Yowamushi Pedal) is composing the music. Ryuichi Ikeuchi, Yuushi Koshida, and Masashi Suzuki are directing the CG, and Kensuke Yamamoto is directing the visual effects.
Netflix previously debuted a Godzilla anime film trilogy between November 2017 and November 2018.
The iconic Toho monster previously inspired the 1978 American animated series Godzilla, the two-part Susume! Godzilland educational animation in 1994 and 1996, the 1998 American animated Godzilla: The Series, and the 2018 animated Tadaima! Chibi Godzilla shorts for the web and theaters.
Sources: Godzilla Singular Point anime's website, Netflix's YouTube channel
