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Wamuu illustration by Hirotaka Tokuda

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Zaprezentowano pierwszy pełny zwiastun Solo Leveling

Hej! Świeże wieści dla fanów Solo Leveling! Właśnie podczas wydarzenia Aniplex Online Fest 2023 zaprezentowano pierwszy pełny zwiastun anime na podstawie manhwy napisanej przez Chugonga i rysowanej przez zmarłego DUBU z REDICE Studio. Ale to nie wszystko! Do obsady dołączyła Haruna Mikawa w roli Aoi Mizushino (siostra Shuna Mizushino - w japońskiej wersji to zmienione imię Sung Jinwoo).

Za kilka kluczowych elementów anime odpowiedzialni będą:

Projekt postaci drugoplanowych: Chiaki Furuzumi

Projekt potworów: Hirotaka Tokuda

Projekt rekwizytów: Sotaro Shiraishi

Reżyser ds. sztuki: Yasuhiro Okumura

Kolorystyka: Naomi Nakano

VFX: Daichi Iseki

CG: Toshitaka Morioka

Grafiki ruchome: Hiromu Ōshiro z Production I.G

Montaż: Yūji Kondō

Reżyser dźwięku: Ryō Tanaka

Jeśli chodzi o główną obsadę, to w roli Sung Jinwoo (w wersji japońskiej Shun Mizushino) wystąpi Taito Ban. Do tego dołączą Reina Ueda, Hiroki Touchi, Genta Nakamura, Daisuke Hirakawa, Banjou Ginga i Makoto Furukawa.

Pamiętajcie, że anime zadebiutuje już podczas nadchodzącej zimy, najpewniej w styczniu 2024! Crunchyroll po raz pierwszy ogłosiło adaptację tej serii podczas swojego panelu na Anime Expo w lipcu 2022.

Jak opisuje Crunchyroll fabułę: od ponad dekady istnieją "bramy" łączące nasz świat z innym wymiarem. Pewni ludzie przebudzili w sobie nadnaturalne moce i są znani jako "łowcy". Jinwoo Sung, łowca niskiej rangi, jest znany jako "najsłabszy łowca wszech czasów". Pewnego dnia przyjmuje tajemnicze zadanie i po tym, gdy był bliski śmierci... zaczyna zdobywać poziomy, jako jedyny łowca na świecie.

Za reżyserię odpowiada Shunsuke Nakashige, a głównym scenarzystą jest Noboru Kimura. Tomoko Sudo zajmuje się projektowaniem postaci, a Hiroyuki Sawano - komponowaniem muzyki.

Crunchyroll będzie transmitować anime poza Azją. A jeśli chodzi o manhwę, jej adaptacja zaczęła się w marcu 2018 i zakończyła w grudniu 2021. Oczywiście możemy też cieszyć się japońską wersją pod tytułem "Ore Dake Level-Up na Ken".

To na tyle na dzisiaj! Trzymajcie rękę na pulsie, bo Solo Leveling na pewno przyniesie jeszcze wiele emocji! 💥

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TIME of the SEASON Winter 2024 Edition: SOLO Leveling

Is this SOLOS the winter anime season? Um.....

Welp, we are now in one of the most anticipated shows of the season. Hell, I think this was supposed to come last year but that got delayed and now it’s here! Let’s see how this will fare and how long before I get bored of it! This is Solo Leveling. Director: Shunsuke Nakashige Series Composition: Noboru Kimura Script: Noboru Kimura (ep 1) Storyboard: Hirotaka Tokuda (ep 1) Shunsuke…

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Warlords of Sigrdrifa Funimation Trailer

Humanity is on the brink of extinction when Odis bestowed upon them The Valkyries and their spirit fighter planes. The Valkyries fight the Pillars that threaten all life forms.

Warlords of Sigrdrifa hails from writer Tappei Nagatsuki with Hirotaka Tokuda directing. The series is produced by Aniplex and A-1 Pictures.

Warlords of Sigrdrifa will release on Funimation in Fall 2020.

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wtf Tokuda Hirotaka single handedly carry this week’s episode of SAO.

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Warlords of Sigrdrifa, locandina e nuovo video promo dell’anime

La serie dei creatori di Re:ZERO e High School Fleet debutterà in Giappone il 3 ottobre.

Il sito ufficiale di “Warlords of Sigrdrifa” si è aggiornato svelando una nuova immagine promozionale e un secondo trailer per l’originale serie animata di A-1 Pictures (Sword Art Online, Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku), alla cui sceneggiatura ha lavorato Tappei Nagatsuki, l’autore del popolare romanzo fantasy/isekai “Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-”, (edito in Italia da J-POP), mentre il world-building è ad opera di Takaaki Suzuki (Strike Witches, High School Fleet).

Il video anticipa la sigla di testa dell’anime, intitolata “Higher’s High” e cantata da Ai Kayano, e annuncia che il primo episodio della serie andrà in onda il 3 ottobre; la puntata avrà una durata speciale di circa un’ora.

Assieme alla nuova locandina e al promo sono stati confermati altri membri del cast:

Ichiro Satomi: Hiroaki Hirata 

Capo della manutenzione: Shigeru Chiba 

Ronge: Yuuichi Nakamura 

Kinpatsu: Tomokazu Sugita 

Gurasan: Mafia Kajita 

Alla regia della serie troviamo Hirotaka Tokuda (direttore d’episodio in Record of Grancrest War, Sword Art Online: Alicization), mentre il character design è ad opera di Takumi Yokota (Mitsuboshi Colors, Nami Yo Kiite Kure!), derivato da quello concepito inizialmente da Takuya Fujima (Bermuda Triangle: Colorful Pastrale, ViVid Strike!). Le sezioni in computer grafica sono realizzate da Graphinica (Hello World), mentre la colonna sonora è composta da Shigeo Komori (Shinsekai Yori, High School Fleet) e Hajime Hyakkoku (Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend, New Game!).

I Pilastri apparvero improvvisamente sopra la Terra, minacciando ogni forma di vita. Un dio che si faceva chiamare Odino vene in aiuto dell'umanità nell’ora della sua quasi totale sconfitta. Per contrastare i Pilastri, Odino lanciò un contrattacco lasciando in eredità all'umanità le fanciulle guerriere chiamate Walküres e gli herocarft, le loro ali.Sono passati anni, ma la battaglia tra l'umanità e i Pilastri infuria ancora. Con tutti gli uomini a sostenerle, le Walküre si librano ogni giorno nei cieli infidi per salvare il mondo. Il Giappone non fa eccezione. Tre Walküres affrontano il gigantesco Pilastro che incombe sul sacro Monte Fuji. Ognuna di loro è molto abile, ma hanno comunque dei limiti. Dall'Europa arriva dunque un nuovo asso a dar loro man forte.“Umanità, il momento di reagire è ora. Il giorno della resa dei conti è arrivato. Il tempo del Ragnarok si avvicina”.

Lo scorso 27 luglio è iniziata la serializzazione di un manga slice of life disegnato da Kanari Abe (Haifuri), mentre separatamente Takeshi Nogami (Girls und Panzer: Ribon no Musha, Strike Witches: Africa no Majo) e Takaaki Suzuki hanno lanciato online un fumetto spin-off.

Inoltre, il 1 ottobre uscirà anche la novel prequel dal titolo “Senyoku no Sigrdrifa Sakura Jou”, scritta di proprio pugno dai Tappei Nagatsuki.

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Promo, imagen y voces principales del anime Senyoku no Sigrdrifa

Nueva entrada publicada en https://www.animefagos.com/2020/06/24/promo-imagen-y-voces-principales-del-anime-senyoku-no-sigrdrifa/

Promo, imagen y voces principales del anime Senyoku no Sigrdrifa

La web oficial del nuevo anime original titulado Senyoku no Sigrdrifa ha publicado una promo y una imagen del anime. Además, ha revelado el reparto de voces, y más integrantes de su staff. 【メインキャスト情報公開！】メインキャラクターを演じるキャスト陣を公開！https://t.co/mzIaS1GFuD クラウディア・ブラフォード役：山村響六車・宮古役：稗田寧々駒込・アズズ役：M・A・O渡来・園香役　菊池紗矢香 TVアニメ「戦翼のシグルドリーヴァ」は2020年10月放送開始！#シグルリ pic.twitter.com/bpKooaZOW6 — TVアニメ「戦翼のシグルドリーヴァ」公式 (@sigururi) June 24, 2020 Hirotaka Tokuda (Grancrest Senki, Sword Art Online: Alicization) se encarga de la dirección bajo A-1 Pictures. Takumi Yokota (Mitsuboshi…

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Revelada a Staff de Warlords of Sigrdrifa

Foi revelada a staff da série anime original “Warlords of Sigrdrifa“ (Senyoku no Sigrdrifa), temos assim:

Diretor: Hirotaka Tokuda Estúdio: A-1 Pictures Roteiro: Tappei Nagatsuki Design de Personagens: Takumi Yokota Criação do mundo: Takaaki Suzuki 3DCG: Graphinica Estreia: Outubro de 2020

Nova imagem promocional:

Sinopse: Uma súbita ameaça, conhecida como Pilares, surgiu para destruir a Terra. Em resposta, um Deus chamado Odin apareceu para combate-las, entretanto, não foi o suficiente e acabou sendo derrotado. Como última medida, Odin entregou para a humanidade garotas as Walküres (Valquírias), garotas capazes de pilotar os Herocraft. 

Muitos anos depois, a batalha contra os Pilares ainda continuam, até que um piloto talentoso aparece no Japão para ajudar a combater o Pilar que existe lá, anunciando também que chegou o momento a humanidade revidar, e que o Ragnarok está chegando!

Fonte: A.I.R

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Warlords of Sigrdrifa TV Anime Soars Through the Sky in New Trailer Announcing 1-Hour Premiere

  While the adorable and tough Valkyries are using a show of force to save the world in the upcoming Warlords of Sigrdrifa original TV anime, they need people to look after them and shield them, and that's where the newly announced cast and characters come in. Alongside that, a new trailer and new visual was released for the high flying anime.

    【第2弾PVが公開！】 新規カットが盛りだくさんの第2弾PVが解禁！https://t.co/Q73NGTtuRS TVアニメ「戦翼のシグルドリーヴァ」は2020年10月3日(土)23:30より放送開始！#シグルリ pic.twitter.com/0SYiLZ7Dcy

— TVアニメ「戦翼のシグルドリーヴァ」公式 (@sigururi) August 26, 2020

      Warlords of Sigrdrifa will be animated at A-1 Pictures (Sword Art Online), with Hirotaka Tokuda (episode director and animation director, Record of Grancrest War) at the helm making his directorial debut. Graphinica (GIRLS und PANZER) will produce the 3DCG animation. Takumi Yokota (Love Live! Nijigasaki Academy School Idol Club) serves as the character designer. Shigeo Komori and Hajime Hyakkoku, who worked together on K-ON!, are teaming back up to supply the show's music.

  Leading the charge is Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- author Tappei Nagatsuki with an expert scenario and world creator Takaaki Suzuki (Violet Evergarden, GIRLS und PANZER) and manga artist Takuya Fujima (Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid) as staff members on the series.

  Hiroaki Hirata will be voicing the commander of Tateyama base, Ichiro Satomi    

  Shigeru Chiba will be voicing the maintenance team leader

  Yuichi Nakamura, Tomokazu Sugita, and Mafia Kajita will be voicing Ronge, Kinpatsu, and Curasan respectively

  Alongside the characters above, the F-15J (Shield Corps.）was also give its own character sheet.

    Warlords of Sigrdrifa will be taking flight on October 3 in a one-hour special premiere!

  Source: Comic Natalie

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Daryl Harding is a Japan Correspondent for Crunchyroll News. He also runs a YouTube channel about Japan stuff called TheDoctorDazza, tweets at @DoctorDazza, and posts photos of his travels on Instagram. 

By: news+feed@crunchyroll.com

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Warlords of Sigrdrifa, trailer e nuovi membri del cast dell’anime

La serie debutterà in Giappone ad ottobre.

Diffuso un primo trailer di “Warlords of Sigrdrifa”, l’originale serie animata in produzione presso gli studi A-1 Pictures (Sword Art Online, Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku) che goda della sceneggiatura a cura di Tappei Nagatsuki, l’autore del popolare romanzo fantasy/isekai “Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-”, (edito in Italia da J-POP), mentre il world-building è ad opera di Takaaki Suzuki (Strike Witches, High School Fleet).

L’anime andrà in onda sulle tv giapponesi da ottobre e come sigla di testa avrà il brano “Higher's High”, cantato da Ai Kayano. La sigla di coda sarà invece interpretata dalla band Spira Spica e si intitolerà “Sayonara Namida”.

Svelati inoltre bozzetti e doppiatrici di altri sei personaggi.

Rusalka Evereska: Ai Kayano

Lizbet Crown: Mikako Komatsu

Leyli Haltjia: Hitomi Ueda

Misato Honjo: Yui Horie

Nono Kazuura: Rina Hidaka

Mikuri Komachi: Sumire Uesaka

A dirigere la serie è Hirotaka Tokuda, mentre il character design è ad opera di Takumi Yokota (Mitsuboshi Colors, Nami Yo Kiite Kure!), derivato da quello concepito da Takuya Fujima (Bermuda Triangle: Colorful Pastrale, ViVid Strike!). Le sezioni in computer grafica sono realizzate da Graphinica (Hello World), mentre la colonna sonora è composta da Shigeo Komori (Shinsekai Yori, High School Fleet) e Hajime Hyakkoku (Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend, New Game!).

I Pilastri apparvero improvvisamente sopra la Terra, minacciando ogni forma di vita. Un dio che si faceva chiamare Odino vene in aiuto dell'umanità nell’ora della sua quasi totale sconfitta. Per contrastare i Pilastri, Odino lanciò un contrattacco lasciando in eredità all'umanità le fanciulle guerriere chiamate Walküres e gli herocarft, le loro ali.Sono passati anni, ma la battaglia tra l'umanità e i Pilastri infuria ancora. Con tutti gli uomini a sostenerle, le Walküre si librano ogni giorno nei cieli infidi per salvare il mondo. Il Giappone non fa eccezione. Tre Walküres affrontano il gigantesco Pilastro che incombe sul sacro Monte Fuji. Ognuna di loro è molto abile, ma hanno comunque dei limiti. Dall'Europa arriva dunque un nuovo asso a dar loro man forte.“Umanità, il momento di reagire è ora. Il giorno della resa dei conti è arrivato. Il tempo del Ragnarok si avvicina”.

Il 27 luglio inizierà la serializzazione di un manga slice of life disegnato da Kanari Abe, mentre separatamente Takeshi Nogami (Girls und Panzer: Ribon no Musha, Strike Witches: Africa no Majo) lancerà online un fumetto spin-off assieme a Takaaki Suzuki.

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Autore: SilenziO))) (@s1lenzi0)

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Warlords of Sigrdrifa, presentati cast e staff della serie

L’originale anime in lavorazione presso A-1 Pictures debutterà in Giappone ad ottobre.

Svelata una nuova immagine promozionale di “Warlords of Sigrdrifa”, l’originale serie animata in produzione presso gli studi A-1 Pictures (Sword Art Online, Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku) per conto di Aniplex, che a seguito del posticipo dovuto all’emergenza covid-19, approderà sulle tv giapponesi da ottobre.

Ad occuparsi della sceneggiatura dell’anime c’è Tappei Nagatsuki, l’autore del popolare romanzo fantasy/isekai “Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-”, (edito in Italia da J-POP), mentre il world-building è in mano a Takaaki Suzuki (Strike Witches, High School Fleet). 

Oltre alla locandina e ad alcune nuove informazione riguardo allo staff, è stato rilasciato anche un breve video che però non mostra parti animate, ma presenta le quattro protagoniste della storia, assieme alle rispettive doppiatrici: 

Claudia Bruford: Hibiki Yamamura 

Miyako Muguruma: Nene Hieda 

Azuzu Komagome: M.A.O 

Sonoka Watarai: Sayaka Kikuchi 

A dirigere la serie è Hirotaka Tokuda, mentre il character design è ad opera di Takumi Yokota (Mitsuboshi Colors, Nami Yo Kiite Kure!), derivato da quello concepito da Takuya Fujima (Bermuda Triangle: Colorful Pastrale, ViVid Strike!). Le sezioni in computer grafica sono realizzate da Graphinica (Hello World), mentre la colonna sonora è composta da Shigeo Komori (Shinsekai Yori, High School Fleet) e Hajime Hyakkoku (Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend, New Game!).

I Pilastri apparvero improvvisamente sopra la Terra, minacciando ogni forma di vita. Un dio che si faceva chiamare Odino vene in aiuto dell'umanità nell’ora della sua quasi totale sconfitta. Per contrastare i Pilastri, Odino lanciò un contrattacco lasciando in eredità all'umanità le fanciulle guerriere chiamate Walküres e gli herocarft, le loro ali.Sono passati anni, ma la battaglia tra l'umanità e i Pilastri infuria ancora. Con tutti gli uomini a sostenerle, le Walküre si librano ogni giorno nei cieli infidi per salvare il mondo. Il Giappone non fa eccezione. Tre Walküres affrontano il gigantesco Pilastro che incombe sul sacro Monte Fuji. Ognuna di loro è molto abile, ma hanno comunque dei limiti. Dall'Europa arriva dunque un nuovo asso a dar loro man forte.“Umanità, il momento di reagire è ora. Il giorno della resa dei conti è arrivato. Il tempo del Ragnarok si avvicina”.

Il 27 luglio inizierà la serializzazione di un manga slice of life disegnato da Kanari Abe, mentre separatamente Takeshi Nogami (Girls und Panzer: Ribon no Musha, Strike Witches: Africa no Majo) lancerà online un fumetto spin-off assieme a Takaaki Suzuki.

Autore: SilenziO))) (@s1lenzi0)

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Re:ZERO Creator's Warlords of Sigrdrifa TV Anime New Trailer Takes Characters to the Skies

  The original TV anime Warlords of Sigrdrifa from Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- author Tappei Nagatsuki makes TV screens its launching platform from October, but before then, in the second live stream for the series, a new trailer was released alongside a plane full of information about characters, their voice actors, and even the opening and ending theme songs!

    【第１弾PVが公開！】 アニメーション映像が初公開となる第１弾PVが解禁！https://t.co/mBUgowbuyI TVアニメ「戦翼のシグルドリーヴァ」は2020年10月放送開始！#シグルリ pic.twitter.com/UMSuiBVqrS

— TVアニメ「戦翼のシグルドリーヴァ」公式 (@sigururi) July 22, 2020

    Alongside the lead characters announced last month, six new characters were announced on July 22 with their respective voice actors, some of them with their Hero Wings!

  Ai Kayano as Rusałka Evereska

  【キャラクタープロフィール①】 ルサルカ・エヴァレスカ cv.茅野愛衣 ほかキャラクター情報はこちらをチェック！ ⇒https://t.co/gCiiNiKRnt TVアニメ「戦翼のシグルドリーヴァ」は2020年10月放送開始！https://t.co/IrElQ1e2kQ#シグルリ pic.twitter.com/vKMcSw4GAa

— TVアニメ「戦翼のシグルドリーヴァ」公式 (@sigururi) July 22, 2020

    Mikako Komatsu as Lisbet Crown and her Bf109G-6 Hero Wing

  【キャラクタープロフィール②】 リズベット・クラウン cv.小松未可子 英霊機…Bf109G-6 ほかキャラクター情報はこちらをチェック！ ⇒https://t.co/gCiiNiKRnt TVアニメ「戦翼のシグルドリーヴァ」は2020年10月放送開始！https://t.co/IrElQ1e2kQ#シグルリ pic.twitter.com/xrGw63mFpp

— TVアニメ「戦翼のシグルドリーヴァ」公式 (@sigururi) July 22, 2020

    Hitomi Ueda as Leyli Haltjia and her Spitfire Mk. IX Hero Wing

  【キャラクタープロフィール③】 レイリー・ハルティア cv.上田瞳 英霊機…スピットファイアMk. IX ほかキャラクター情報はこちらをチェック！ ⇒https://t.co/gCiiNiKRnt TVアニメ「戦翼のシグルドリーヴァ」は2020年10月放送開始！https://t.co/IrElQ1e2kQ#シグルリ pic.twitter.com/u0zjOpn1P5

— TVアニメ「戦翼のシグルドリーヴァ」公式 (@sigururi) July 22, 2020

    Yui Horie as Misato Honjo

Rina Hidaka as Nono Kazuura

Sumire Uesaka as Mikuri Komachi

  【キャラクタープロフィール④】 本庄・美智 cv.堀江由衣 和浦・野乃 cv.日高里菜 御厨・小町 cv.上坂すみれ ほかキャラクター情報はこちらをチェック！ ⇒https://t.co/gCiiNiKRnt TVアニメ「戦翼のシグルドリーヴァ」は2020年10月放送開始！https://t.co/IrElQ1e2kQ#シグルリ pic.twitter.com/RCTQuQEdfm

— TVアニメ「戦翼のシグルドリーヴァ」公式 (@sigururi) July 22, 2020

    In charge of the opening theme song for Warlords of Sigrdrifa is Akari Nanawo singing 'Higher's High', with Spira Spica singing the ending theme 'Sayonara Namida.'

    【主題歌情報①】 オープニングテーマがナナヲアカリ(@nanawo_STAFF)の「Higher's High」に決定！ TVアニメ「戦翼のシグルドリーヴァ」は2020年10月放送開始！https://t.co/IrElQ1e2kQ#シグルリ pic.twitter.com/DcoinUmOTQ

— TVアニメ「戦翼のシグルドリーヴァ」公式 (@sigururi) July 22, 2020

      【主題歌情報②】 エンディングテーマはスピラ・スピカ(@spiraspica)の「サヨナラナミダ」に決定！ TVアニメ「戦翼のシグルドリーヴァ」は2020年10月放送開始！https://t.co/IrElQ1e2kQ#シグルリ pic.twitter.com/8e8uapUmB0

— TVアニメ「戦翼のシグルドリーヴァ」公式 (@sigururi) July 22, 2020

    Warlords of Sigrdrifa will be animated at A-1 Pictures (Sword Art Online), with Hirotaka Tokuda (episode director and animation director, Record of Grancrest War) at the helm making his directorial debut. Graphinica (GIRLS und PANZER) will produce the 3DCG animation. Takumi Yokota (Love Live! Nijigasaki Academy School Idol Club) serves as the character designer. Shigeo Komori and Hajime Hyakkoku, who worked together on K-ON!, are teaming back up to supply the show's music.

  Leading the charge is Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- author Tappei Nagatsuki with expert scenario and world creator Takaaki Suzuki (Violet Evergarden, GIRLS und PANZER) and manga artist Takuya Fujima (Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid) as staff members on the series.

  Previously released visual:

  The TV anime will be taking to the sky in October 2020 after a small delay from July 2020.

  Source: Warlords of Sigrdrifa on Twitter

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Daryl Harding is a Japan Correspondent for Crunchyroll News. He also runs a YouTube channel about Japan stuff called TheDoctorDazza, tweets at @DoctorDazza, and posts photos of his travels on Instagram. 

By: news+feed@crunchyroll.com

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Meet the High-Flying Cast of Re:ZERO Creator's Warlords of Sigrdrifa

  Warlords of Sigrdrifa is experiencing some slight delays, but the series is on course for an October landing. To tide you over, there's a new PV, featuring the voices of the show's four battling heroines!

  The series, created by Re:ZERO -Staring Life in Another World- author Tappei Nagatsuki, introduced its four heroines in this video:

  【メインキャスト情報公開！】 メインキャラクターを演じるキャスト陣を公開！https://t.co/mzIaS1GFuD クラウディア・ブラフォード役：山村響 六車・宮古役：稗田寧々 駒込・アズズ役：M・A・O 渡来・園香役　菊池紗矢香 TVアニメ「戦翼のシグルドリーヴァ」は2020年10月放送開始！#シグルリ pic.twitter.com/bpKooaZOW6

— TVアニメ「戦翼のシグルドリーヴァ」公式 (@sigururi) June 24, 2020

  Leading the cast will be:

  Nene Hieda (Momo Yashiro in Gundam Build Divers) as Miyako Muguruma

    M.A.O (Wilma in The 8th son? Are you kidding me?) as Azuzu Komagome

Sayaka Kikuchi (first major role) as Sonoka Watarai

Hibiku Yamamura (Cure Twinkle in Go! Princess PreCure) as Claudia Bruford

The series will be animated at A-1 Pictures (Sword Art Online), with Hirotaka Tokuda (episode director and animation director, Record of Grancrest War) at the helm making his directorial debut. Graphinica (GIRLS und PANZER) will produce the 3DCG elements. Takumi Yokota (Love Live! Nijigasaki Academy School Idol Club) serves as character designer. Shigeo Komori and Hajime Hyakkoku, who worked together on K-ON!, are teaming back up to supply the show's music.

    Warlords of Sigrdrifa comes in for a landing in Japan this October.

  >> Warlords of Sigrdrifa Website

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Sakuga Weekly: Who Made All Might's Final Fight Look So Amazing?

Over the last few months, whispers that something big was coming to My Hero Academia kept on making the rounds online. Comments by the animators themselves, the distribution of staff, all signs pointed at the production of this third season saving up its energy for something truly special. And as time approached, it became clear that it was All Might’s awe-inspiring final battle that they had focused so much on – a grandiose fight on its own right, but also an immensely emotionally-charged baton pass that the whole series had been building up towards. It deserved the best treatment it could possibly get, and as you’ll have noticed if you watched the episode, that’s what it got.

    But before getting into the whos and whats regarding the production, I’d like to talk about the why. Because it’s not simply out of a sense of duty towards a big title like My Hero Academia that the staff needed to surpass themselves for this episode. It was narratively important to portray All Might as the ultimate symbol of peace, to actually animate him as the unparalleled superhero that he’s been established as. Much of this arc, and the series as a whole, has explored the idea of heroes as symbols; All Might isn’t what he is simply due to his vast power, it’s because he’s perceived by everyone as the number one hero. Villains see him as an undefeatable foe, and civilians have an indestructible source of hope to cling to.

And that means that anything less than an exceptional portrayal of his final battle wouldn’t have cut it. All Might's iconic fight in the first season had already been overseen by rising star Hakuyu Go before Go went on to direct one of the best-animated episodes of all time in Fate/Apocrypha #22, meaning that the staff are plenty aware of how important it is to nail All Might's appearances. For the bystanders within the show and the viewers at home to be in sync while cheering for All Might’s feats, the crew at studio BONES had to put together an all-time high for this series and shonen anime altogether. And that’s exactly what they did.

    I’m truly spoiled for choice when it comes to highlighting impressive sequences in My Hero Academia #49. When it comes to climactic episodes like this, you usually have some individual artists who clearly stand out from their peers, but I feel just about the whole team here deserves credit for the success – another kind of All For One. Plenty of animators deserve a callout this time around.

We’ve got people like French artist Cedric Herole, who accidentally leaked his involvement with this special episode back in February – and seeing how much impact he packed in this clash, his excitement was deserved. Others like Masaya Sekizaki instead got across the magnitude of the confrontation with very memorable layouts, escaping this adaptation’s tendency to slavishly stick to shots from the manga. The final punches embody that desire to allow the anime to stand on its own legs with a thrilling back and forth that truly exploits the medium.

Versatile young animator Shuu Sugita had me screaming with the glorious last blow shown above (not the first time he achieves that!), which is intermixed with the already legendary black & white fire sequence + All Might's rushing face (covered over in a warm filter) that was likely penned by effects master Takashi Mitani. But again, this time more than ever it’s not just them. Every animator, painter, the compositing team... absolutely everyone nailed perhaps the most important moments of My Hero Academia to date.

    And you know what’s a good follow-up to many people’s favorite episode in a super popular series? A visually quirky outing in a show that nowhere as many people are watching in the first place! Episode 23 of Record of Grancrest War is one of those idiosyncratic showcases of a single creator’s style that will leave no one indifferent, especially since at this point the production can afford no time to add extra polish.

Though the episode had its fair share of noteworthy guest animators, it all comes down to the work of Hirotaka Tokuda: storyboarder, episode director, supervisor of the animation on all levels, action director, and still with enough time to draw a bunch of sequences himself. If that sounds incredible, keep in mind that he’s occupied all those roles for multiple episodes in this series, and that he’s ready to return for the finale as well. Whether Tokuda is human or not is still up in the air, but we don’t discriminate against mechanical creators over here either way.

Tokuda’s episodes immediately stand out because of his eye-catching block shading. You would assume that’s at odds with series director Mamoru Hatakeyama’s fondness of flat, unshaded character art, but Tokuda’s deliberate usage of it during the most ferocious action moments tends to work quite well. Bold departures from the norm receive mixed receptions at the best of times, so I imagine that an episode like this that is truly rough beyond the intention of the creators will for the most part be met with complaints.

Even its most impressive scene, by the hand of the characterful young ace Nakaya Onsen, fails to live up to its potential and get across the grandiosity that we’ve seen previously in his work. And yet it still drew me in like very few moments can, because its essence is just that captivating. There’s a delicate balance between ambition and polish, and at the end of the day, your reaction to pieces like this will greatly vary depending on your personal priorities.

    With other action-packed series like DARLING in the FranXX and MEGALOBOX also having strong episodes by their own standards, we could be over here highlighting frenetic sequences all day, but let’s not forget that anime is much more than that. So unless an animation earthquake forces me to change priorities, next week we’ll be talking about Hinamatsuri’s enchanting character acting – its unique rhythm has many of us enamored!

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Kevin Cirugeda is one of the founders of Sakugabooru and an editor and writer for the site's sister blog, Sakugablog. You can find him on Twitter shouting about children's anime, Messi (sometimes), and sakuga memes at @Yuyucow.

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