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Hulu Reveals New Trailer for Disney's Live-Action/Anime Dragons of Wonderhatch Series
posted on by Anita Tai
Hulu shared a new trailer on Monday for the upcoming hybrid live-action/anime fantasy adventure project Dragons of Wonderhatch (Wonderhatch -Sora-Tobu Ryū no Shima-) and revealed the series will also stream on the platform in the U.S.
The live-action segments depict the "real world" while the anime segments depict another world where dragons live. Disney+ will premiere the series on December 20.
The main leads are Nagi, a high school girl in the real world, and Tyme, a boy who lives in another world where dragonriders hear the cries of dragons and communicate with them. Film actress Sena Nakajima plays Nagi, and film actor Daiken Okudaira (live-action Insomniacs After School) plays Tyme. Yoshito Emmanuelle plays Nagi's friend Son, and Mackenyu Arata plays the dragonrider Akuta.Additional live-action cast members include:
- Rena Tanaka as Hana
- Masaki Miura as Taichi
- Riko Narumi as Ayana Nijisaki
- SUMIRE as Saira
Previously announced anime cast members include:
- Kenjirō Tsuda as Gyro
- Shunsuke Takeuchi as Gafin
- Yu Shimamura as Kate, the deputy commander of Akuta's unit
- Kenta Miyake as Byce, a member of Akuta's unit
- Jun Fukuyama as Gatz, a member of Akuta's unit
- Shimba Tsuchiya as Maul, a boy from Upananta who still believes beyond any reason in the existence of another world
Kyōta Fujimoto, Takamasa Ōe, and Anna Kawahara wrote the scripts for the project, and Teruhisa Yamamoto, Hitoshi Itou, and Hideyuki Wakuta as the producers. C & I Entertainment (live-action Rurouni Kenshin, Tokyo Zombie films) is credited as the production company. Production I.G is producing the anime portion of the project.
Kentarō Hagiwara (live-action Tokyo Ghoul film) is directing the project after spending five years developing it, and Takashi Otsuka (Precure franchise, One Piece Stampede) is directing the anime segments. Posuka Demizu (The Promised Neverland (manga) is drafting the original character designs and concept art.