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UniteUp! Idol Anime Reveals Staff and Premiere Date in First Full Trailer

UniteUp!

 

In September we got our first look at the UniteUp! TV anime, based on the YouTube project that kicked off in 2021. A bunch of voice cast members were revealed for all the various idol units in the series, and now the debut trailer has arrived with a look at the show and an overview of the staff behind it.

 

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Shinichiro Ushijima (I want to eat your pancreas) is at the helm for this one as director, with Rino Yamazaki (Akebi’s Sailor Uniform) on series composition and Majiro (Macross Delta) handling character designs and chief animation direction. Other staff members serving as chief animation director include Asami Komatsu (GRANBLUE FANTASY: The Animation) and Yurie Hama (Fate/Grand Order Final Singularity – Grand Temple of Time: Solomon). Hiromi Ishigami (Cutie Honey Universe) is on board as action director and Yuki Hayashi (My Hero Academia) is on music.

 

As previously reported, CloverWorks is the studio behind the production. Check out the main trailer and key visual below while we wait for this one to premiere on TOKYO MX and other stations in Japan on January 7, 2023.

 

 

 

Here are all the previously-revealed units and cast members:

 

Protostar

 

 

Kikunosuke Toya as Akira Kiyose

 

 

Ryotaro Yamaguchi as Banri Naoe

 

 

Amon Hirai as Chihiro Isuzugawa

 

 

Legit

 

 

Magura Sukegawa as Daiki Takao

 

 

Shinnosuke Morikage as Eishiro Nijo

 

 

Ryuichiro Sakata as Fuga Togo

 

 

Jaxx Jaxx

 

 

masa as Gakuto Haruka

 

 

Yuuki Shimomae as Homare Katsura

 

 

Takumi Magoshi as Izumi Kashii

 

 

Kosei Tsubokura as Jun Wakasa

 

 

Gaku Takamoto as Kanata Morinomiya

 

 

AneLa

 

 

Yoshiki Nakajima as Maoto Tsujido

 

 

Soma Saito as Lin Otsuki

 

 

Via Comic Natalie

 

 

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Joseph Luster is the Games and Web editor at Otaku USA Magazine. You can read his comics at subhumanzoids. Follow him on Twitter @Moldilox.