Girls Band Cry, an upcoming original anime from Toei Animation, will premiere in April next year, as announced with a new key visual and a teaser trailer.
Kazuo Sakai is directing the original anime project, with Kenji Tamai on the music, and Nari on the character designs. The cast includes Rina as Nina Iseri, Yuri as Momoka Kawaragi, Mirei as Subaru Awa, Natsu as Tomo Ebizuka, and Syuri as Rupa.
The Girls Band Cry anime was first announced in April this year, with two music videos for the project released later in May. They were titled “Nameless Name” and “No Rhyme No Reason” respectively. Other released singles include “White Drizzle in Gloom,” “Ideal Paradox,” and “Bleeding Hearts.”
The official YouTube channel for the anime project describes its plot as:
The main character drops out of high school in her second year, and aims at entering a university while working alone in Tokyo.
A girl is betrayed by her friends and doesn’t know what to do.
Another girl is abandoned by her parents, and tries to survive in the city by doing part-time jobs.
This world lets us down all the time.
Nothing goes as planned.
But we want something that we can continue to like.
We believe there’s a place where we belong. That’s why we sing.
Toei Animation is best knownfor its animation work on anime titles such as Dragon Ball (1986), The Kindaichi Case Files (1997), Fist of the North Star (1984), Sailor Moon (1992), Mononoke (2007), Slam Dunk (1993), and One Piece (1999). It has has recently worked on titles such as Healin’ Good Pretty Cure (2020), Tropical-Rouge! Pretty Cure (2021), and Delicious Party Pretty Cure (2022) from the PreCure franchise; as well as Future’s Folktales (2020), Fushigi Dagashiya Zenitendo (2020), and the Tosochu: The Great Mission series.
Source: Official Website
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