The upcoming Gamera Rebirth anime has announced a special collaboration with the Night With a Cat anime, ahead of Gamera Rebirth’s premiere this September 7 on Netflix. A special trailer and visual have been released:
Studio ENGI is animating the Gamera Rebirth series while Hiroyuki Seshita is directing it. The theme songs are “Natsuake” as the main theme and “FLY & DIVE” as the ending theme, both performed by WANIMA. The cast for the anime includes Hisako Kanemoto as Boco, Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Joe, Aki Toyosaki as Junichi, Subaru Kimura as Brody, Mamoru Miyano as James Tazaki, and Saori Hayami as Emiko Melchiorri. The rest of the staff is as follows:
- Assistant Director: Keisuke Ide
- Head Writers: Kenta Ihara, Hiroshi Seko and Hiroyuki Seshita
- Scriptwriters: Kenta Ihara, Hiroshi Seko, Tetsuya Yamada and Hiroyuki Seshita
- Character Designer: Atsushi Tamura
- Kaiju Designer: Kan Takahama
- Production Designer: Naoya Tanaka and Ferdinando Patulli
- Mechanical Designer: Takehiko Hoashi
- Animation Director: Kouji
- Sound Director: Yoshikazu Iwanami
- Music Composer: Shuji Katayama
- Modeling Director and Lighting Director: Mitsunori Kataama
The summary for the Gamera Rebirth anime is described as follows:
In summer of 1989, sixth graders Boko, Joe and Junichi are on their last summer vacation as elementary school students. Brody, the son of a US military commander, suddenly appears before them stealing away the money they had saved. Furious, they begin plotting how to get their money back, but as they are about to carry out the plan, the kaiju Gyaos, suddenly attacks Tokyo. Petrified before Gyaos, a huge kaiju appears out of nowhere. Its name is Gamera. And so their “Summer of Kaiju” begins. Kaiju appear one after another, but Gamera heroically fights back despite its wounds. The boys witness the legend.
Meanwhile, the Nights With a Cat anime is in its second season, with 50 episodes currently out. The first season aired from August to September 2022 for 16 episodes then continued as an original net animation series on YouTube from October 2022 to January 2023. It is based on a manga essay written and illustrated by Kyuryu Z, and published by KADOKAWA. The series released the fourth compiled volume on October 27, 2022.
Source: Official Twitter
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