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New Mashin Sōzōden Wataru Anime Unveils New Video, Main Cast, Staff, January 2025 Debut

The staff for Mashin Sōzōden Wataru, the new television anime in Sunrise's Wataru franchise unveiled the anime's new promotional video, visual, main cast, staff, and January 2025 premiere on Thursday.

The anime stars: Mutsumi Tamura as Wataru Hoshibe (center in image above); Atsumi Tanezaki as Kakeru Amabe (left from center); Katsuyuki Konishi as Ofurain (right from center); Megu Umezawa as Maro (leftmost); Rie Kugimiya as Ryunryun (top left); and the character Uzume (top leftmost).

Tomokazu Sugita will voice the new Mashin Ryūjinmaru (top center in image below). The anime's staff revealed the visuals for other Mashin characters such as Fūjinmaru (top left), Kirinmaru (top right), Tenshōmaru (bottom left), and Jūgōmaru (bottom right).

The anime will premiere in January 2025 on six TV Tokyo channels.

Yumi Kamakura is directing the anime at Bandai Namco Pictures, Yoichi Kato (Aikatsu!, Duel Masters, Yōkai Watch) is in charge of series scripts, and Mayuko Nakano (The Vampire Dies in No Time) and Yoshinori Yumoto (Daily Lives of High School Boys) are designing the characters. Bandai Namco Filmworks and TV Tokyo are in charge of production.

Additional staff includes:

• Mashin Design: Kyōryū Kuramo, Studio GS
• Worldview Design: Yūri
• Art Directors: Norifumi Nakamura, Masami Hayashi
• Color Design: Akiko Shibata
• CG Director: Shinpei Nagashima
• Compositing Director of Photography: Tsunetaka Ema
• Editing: Naoki Watanabe
• Music: Ryūichi Takada, Keiichi Hirokawa, Oliver Good, Keita Inoue
• Sound Director: Sadayoshi Fujino

The anime will also get a manga adaptation that will launch in Shogakukan's Monthly CoroCoro Comic on December 13.

Sunrise's original Mashin Eiyūden Wataru television anime series premiered in 1988. The Mashin Eiyūden Wataru 2 sequel debuted in 1990, followed by the Chō Mashin Eiyūden Wataru sequel in 1997. The franchise also inspired three original video anime that debuted between 1989 and 1993.

Mashin Eiyūden Wataru Shichi Tamashii no Ryūjinmaru (Seven-Souled Ryūjinmaru) was anime studio Sunrise and Bandai Spirits' Tamashii Nations toy brand's 2020 project in the Wataru franchise. The anime premiered on Bandai Spirits' YouTube channel in April 2020 and streamed for nine episodes. A compilation film titled Mashin Eiyūden Wataru Shichi Tamashii no Ryūjinmaru - Saikai- screened in Japanese theaters January 2022.

The project's story follows series protagonist Wataru, who goes to the world Sōkaizan in response to a call about an incident there. An evil presence shrouds the area, and the robot Ryūjinmaru's power has been sealed. Together with his friends Shibaraku, Toraō, and Himiko, Wataru begins a new journey.

Source: Press release