Fuji TV Reveals New Upcoming Anime Metallic Rouge, Undead Murder Farce and More
Fuji TV announced today two new movies and three series that will be a part of Fuji TV’s +Ultra programming block. Additionally, Crunchyroll is confirming today that each television series will stream on Crunchyroll for members worldwide excluding Asia when they air in Japan. The following are the newly announced anime in alphabetical order.
BLOODY ESCAPE (working title)
Premiere date: 2024
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- Director, Script, Original Concept: Goro Taniguchi (One Piece Film Red)
- Character Design: Yusuke Kozaki
- Animation Production: Polygon Pictures
Kaina of the Great Snow Sea: Star Sage
Premiere date: October 2023
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- Director: Hiroaki Ando (Listeners, Ajin: Demi-Human)
- Series Composition: Sadayuki Murai (Natsume Yujin-cho)
- Script: Sadayuki Murai, Tetsuya Yamada (Knights of Sidonia)
- Main Theme: Hiroyuki Sawano (Promare)
- Music: Kohta Yamamoto (Attack on Titan Final Season), Misaki Umase (Precure series)
- Animation Production: Polygon Pictures
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- Kaina voiced by Yoshimasa Hosoya (Nicholas D. Wolfwood in TRIGUN STAMPEDE)
- Liliha voiced by Rie Takahashi (Sumi Sakurasawa in Rent-a-Girlfriend)
- Yaona voiced by Ayumu Murase (Hinata Shoyo in Haikyu!!)
- Amerote voiced by Maaya Sakamoto (Echidna in Re:ZERO)
- Olinoga voiced by Katsuyuki Konishi (Tengen Uzui in Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba)
- Ngapoji voiced by Tomokazu Sugita (Kyon in The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya)
- Handagil voiced by Nobuyuki Hiyama (Link in The Legend of Zelda)
- Halesola voiced by Kenyu Horiuchi (Pain in Naruto Shippuden)
Synopsis:
In another world where the Snow Sea continues to grow wider… The people were barely surviving atop the Canopy, which spreads out from giant trees called orbital spire trees.
When Kaina, a boy from the Canopy, meets Ririha, a princess from the Snow Sea, their journey to change a world heading for destruction begins.
KamiErabi GOD.app
Airdate: October 2023
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- Original planning: YOKO TARO (NieR franchise)
- Director: Hiroyuki Seshita (Ajin)
- Series Composition, Script: JIN (Mekakucity Actors)
- Character Design: Atsushi Ohkubo (Soul Eater, Fire Force)
- Music: MONACA
- Animation Production: UNEND
Metallic Rouge
Airdate: January 2024
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- Chief Director, Series Composition: Yutaka Izubuchi (RahXephon)
- Director: Motonobu Hori (Carole & Tuesday)
- Character Design: Toshihiro Kawamoto (Cowboy Bebop)
- Music: Taisei Iwasaki (Blood Blockade Battlefront)
- Animation Production: BONES
Undead Murder Farce
Airdate: July 2023
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- Director: Mamoru Hatakeyama (Kaguya-sama: Love Is War?)
- Head Writer: Noboru Takagi (Durarara!!)
- Character Design Concept: Zerogo Iwamoto
- Character Designer, Chief Animation Director: Noriko Ito (Yuri!!! On Ice)
- Second Character Designer, Chief Animation Director: Naho Kozono (Golden Kamuy)
- Music: Yuma Yamaguchi (Project X Zone 2)
- Sound Director: Kazuhiro Wakabayashi (Ghost in the Shell)
- Animation Production: Lapintrack
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- Aya Rindo voiced by Tomoyo Kurosawa (Kumiko Omae in Sound! Euphonium)
- Tsugaru Shinuchi voiced by Taku Yashiro (Hirokazu Arai in Chainsaw Man)
- Shizuku Hasei voiced by Makoto Koichi (Sakura Otome in Lycoris Recoil)
Synopsis:
The 19th century — a world inhabited by vampires, golems, werewolves and other paranormal creatures. Immortal beauty and disembodied head Aya Rindo, along with half-human-half-demon “Demon Killer” Tsugaru Shunichi and her loyal maid Shizuku Hasei, travels through Europe as supernatural detective “The Cage User,” solving supernatural mysteries while she searches for her lost body.
Crunchyroll announced Kaina of the Great Snow Sea and ESTAB LIFE: GREAT ESCAPE alongside Fuji TV for the +Ultra block in January 2022. The +Ultra programming block began in October 2018, and has featured anime series such as Carole & Tuesday, Beastars, The Heike Story and more.
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