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Rhapsody Project's 2nd Trailer Teases Hybrid Anime/Concert Experience

The staff for the rockin'on group's Rhapsody music anime project debuted its second trailer on Saturday. The trailer previews the animated sequences that will play alongside in-person musical performances during the project's "live anime" concert events.

The project's anime will feature the bands' stories through animation, and the bands' voice actors will perform music with session musicians on stage. The anime will not play at movie theaters or traditional stage theaters, but on a giant LED screen installed at a live concert venue. Starting on July 2, regular performances will be held at the harevutai Live House venue in Ikebukuro, Tokyo.

In addition, the cast will host a talk session with a screening at Tokyo's Spotify O-EAST venue on July 24.

The cast in their respective bands includes:

Pink Flag

• Jun Suetsugu as Kazuma Mochino (vocalist/guitarist)
• Junta Terashima as Itsuki Mikai (guitarist)
• Kōhei Yanagi as Taku Kitase (bassist)
• Takuya Masumoto as Arata Kosegawa (drummer)

Haru no Jūjika (Spring Cross):

• Tatsuya Sugawara as Nijiro Shisui (vocalist)
• Sōma Saitō as Toji Tsukishima (guitarist)
• Hiromu Mineta as Shion Kagami (bassist)
• Shūichirō Umeda as Kosei Tayo (drummer)

Bluebird:

• Reo Tanie as Rakki Kokonoe (vocalist/guitarist)
• Haruki Asada as Soten Natsume (vocalist/guitarist)
• Katsuyuki Miura as Nazuna Chikarashi (keyboardist)

System of Romance

• Yuri Yamamoto as Kinji Abiko (vocalist)
• Daiki Kawamoto as Ginji Abiko (DJ/composer)

Additional cast members for the Rhapsody label staff include:

• Jun Fukuyama as Junya Tōsaka
• Kenjirō Tsuda as Kyōji Tōsaka
• Aya Endō as Akari Tōsaka

Yōichi Shibuya and rockin'on are credited for the original work, and Shibuya is the project's chief production supervisor. Yūki Kodama drafted the original character designs, which Momoko Kawai adapted for animation. MIXER contributed to the project's planning.

The tagline of the project is, "…Rock is a story of grief and hope." The story depicts the dedication and drive of four bands under the Rhapsody label: the four-member rock band Pink Flag with personal trauma, the loud rock band Haru no Jūjika (Spring Cross) of high school students, the folk unit Bluebird composed of childhood friends, and the EDM brother duo System of Romance (SOR).

The rockin'on group had planned to launch its first music anime project in summer of 2020, after holding auditions from August to September 2019.

Sources: Rhapsody project's website, Comic Natalie