Shinkalion Anime Casts Kōichi Yamadera
The official website for Shinkansen Henkei Robo
Shinkalion the Animation, the television anime adaptation of Takara Tomy's Shinkaliontoy line,
revealed on Thursday that voice actor Kōichi
Yamadera will join the anime's cast as the character Subaru Azuma,
the top commander of the Shinkansen Ultra Evolution Institute. The character
will appear in the anime starting in January 2019.
The anime premiered on
January 6, and airs on Saturdays at 7:00 a.m. on TBS and its affiliates.
Takahiro Ikezoe (Show
By Rock!!, PriPri
Chii-chan!!) is directing the anime at OLM. Ajia-do is credited for
animation cooperation. Kento Shimoyama (Bleach, Armed Girl's Machiavellism) is in charge of series
composition. Yuka Aono (Brave Beats) is designing the
characters, and Keita Hattori is in charge of mechanical design. Toshiyuki Watanabe(Giovanni's Island, Space Brothers) is composing the music,
and Masafumi Mima (Attack
on Titan, Valvrave
the Liberator) is the sound director. SMDE is credited for CG animation.
The Shinkalion
robots are various models of real-life Japanese bullet trains (shinkansen) that transform
into robots to fight an unknown evil to protect the safety and peace of Japan.
In the franchise's
story, Hayato Hayasugi (his last name is a pun on the words for "too
fast"), the train-loving son of a train museum curator, accidentally
stumbles into his dad's secret research lab one day. Inside he finds the E5
bullet train. As soon as he enters, he hears an announcement that a mysterious
enemy, the Bachigami ("bee god"), is attacking the city of New
Saitama. Luckily, with the touch of his father's Shinca ("evolve")
card, the bullet train he's in transforms into a mighty robot — the Shinkalion
E5 Hayabusa.
In the anime's
story, Hayato and other children serve as conductors to pilot the Shinkalion.
The children must work together with the adults of the "Shinkansen Ultra
Evolution Institute" (SUEI) to defeat a monster that looks like a jet
black bullet train.
Sources: Shinkalion anime's website, Comic Natalie
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