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New Pokémon Anime About Postal Service Dragonite Previews Theme Song in Trailer Video

The staff for Kairyū to Yūbinya-san (Dragonite and the Mailman), a new anime in the Pokémon franchise, revealed a trailer video on Thursday. The video features the anime's theme song "Kami Hikōki" (Paper Airplane) by suis from yorushika x Evan Call. The end of the video reveals that there will be a "Pokémon Presents" livestream on February 27 at 11:00 p.m. JST (9:00 a.m. EST).

Taku Kimura (Star Wars: Visions "Tattooine Rhapsody," Osana Najimi no Carbou) is directing and storyboarding the anime. Kentarō Nana is writing and supervising the script. Asuka Dokai (Snorunt's Summer Vacation) designed the characters, and Maho Aoki (Astro Note) is designing those characters for animation, as well as serving as animation director. Tasuku Watanabe is the art director. Evan Call (Violet Evergarden, Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, My Happy Marriage) is composing the anime's music, and is also composing the theme song "Kami Hikōki" (Paper Airplane), with vocals by yorushika vocalist suis.

The anime centers on Hana, a girl who admires a Dragonite who serves as a postal worker. One day, Hana receives a letter addressed to no one, and sets out to find the sender alongside her trusty Fuecoco, going out into town. She finds the sender is a boy named Rio, who apparently intended to send the letter to his father, who is working abroad in the Kanto region. But as the father's birthday is quickly approaching, it seems like he will not be able to receive the letter in time.

Source: Comic Natalie