Crunchyroll Announces More Anime Coming and Shows Off Lots of Trailers Including TRIGUN STAMPEDE
Over the weekend was Anime Expo. During the event, Crunchyroll announced a slew of new series and showed off some first looks. This included a new trailer for Trigun Stampede! I’m going to try to quickly breakdown the announcements into a brief article and include all the trailers and art that I can.
First, Crunchyroll announced that it will be simulcasting the anime adaptation of the Korean manhwa Solo Leveling from A-1 Pictures. The Solo Leveling manhwa is written by Chugong and illustrated by DUBU (REDICE Studio) and the anime will be headed by director Shunsuke Nakashige, head writer Noboru Kimura, character designer Tomoko Sudo, and composer Hiroyuki Sawano.
It's been over a decade since the sudden appearance of the "gates"—the paths that connect our world with a different dimension. Since then, certain humans have awakened to supernatural powers. We call these individuals "hunters." Hunters make their living by using their powers to conquer dungeons inside the gates. In this world of tough customers, the low-ranked hunter Jinwoo Sung is known as "the weakest hunter of all mankind." One day, Jinwoo gets fatally injured when he runs into high-rank double dungeons hidden within a low-rank dungeon. Just then, a mysterious quest window appears in front of him. On the verge of death, Jinwoo decides to accept the quest and starts leveling up...while the others aren't.
Sharing their excitement, Chugong said:
About six years ago when I was writing the very beginning of Solo Leveling, if someone had said to me, ‘The novel you wrote will become a comic,’ I bet I'd have told them to stop pulling my leg. But now, I'm told that it'll be animated?! Seriously, stop pulling my leg!... But these days, I'm feeling excited and thrilled. Since I'm still half-doubting that this is real, I want to see Jinwoo and the other characters get animated soon and feel relieved. I'll keep working diligently while looking forward to that day.
DUBU added:
Solo Leveling is finally making its anime debut. It feels like only yesterday that we got the offer for the anime adaptation. I feel so overwhelmed when I think that the anime is really being created right now. This is all thanks to you fans who love and support Solo Leveling. I'm filled with gratitude. Thank you very much. Also, please support the animation production team. If this anime gives new enjoyment to the readers, I'll be very happy.
In addition, Crunchyroll confirmed that they’ll be streaming Overlord IV which is now available!
Newly crowned Ains has big plans for his Sorcerer Kingdom, but so do his enemies. Deep in the mountains of Azerlisia lie the Dwarves’ mortal enemy, a demi-human race, the Quagoa, gathered ready to invade. To make matters worse, other kingdoms conspire to overthrow the undead king! Will his vision for a utopia come to fruition? Heavy lies the crown, even for the guy with unlimited power.
Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation has had its second season acquired by Crunchyroll who will simulcast it in 2023.
It was announced that Saint Seiya: Knights of the Zodiac – Battle for Sanctuary will premiere this summer on Crunchyroll with both sub and dub versions on the same day. Dubs will be available in English, Latin American Spanish, and Brazilian Portuguese. Following that up, the new My Hero Academia Season 5 OVAs, HLB and Laugh! as if you are in hell, will debut on Crunchyroll on August 1 at 5 AM PT in both subbed and dubbed formats.
Another teaser revealed was an image for The Tale of Outcasts accompanied by an original illustration by the manga’s author Makoto Hoshino.
The demon by her side is her salvation. The girl by his side is his pastime. Their encounter in the late nineteenth-century British Empire begins the tale of a search for someplace to belong. To their fellow outcasts, this demon and girl whisper their tale in the dark of night.
Fans also got a trailer for season 2 of In/Spectre.
To Your Eternity released a new trailer for its second season as well.
Fumita Yanagida’s manga Tomo-chan Is a Girl! is getting an anime adaptation from Lay-duce. This series will be simulcast by Crunchyroll starting January 2023. Sally Amaki will be providing the voice of Carol Olston in both the English and Japanese versions which is exciting. Meanwhile, Tomo Aizawa will be voiced by Rie Takahashi in Japanese and Lexi Nieto in English. Kaito Ishikawa and Rina Hidaka will be voicing Junichiro Kubota and Misuzu Gundo respectively in the Japanese. The anime is directed by Hitoshi Namba with Noriko Hashimoto serving as assistant director, Megumi Shimizu is head writer, Shiori Hiraiwa is the character designer and Masaru Yokoyama will compose the music.
If you like Fruits Basket (it’s amazing) BoxLunch took some time to launch a collaboration between the hit shojo series and Hello Kitty. The full collection will be released at BoxLunch and Hot Topic in August.
Finally, fans got their first look at Trigun Stampede. It appears that this series will take the basic premise of the original and then tell new stories. Maybe I’m wrong, but that’s what it looks like to me, and Crunchyroll is labeling it a reboot, so I think that’s fair. The new series will stream on Crunchyroll in 2023 and features the voice talent of Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Vash Stampede, Junya Ikeda as Knives Millions, Tomoyo Kurosawa as Young Vash, Yumiri Hanamori as Young Knives, and Maaya Sakamoto as Rem Saverem. Kenji Muto is directing the series and Orange is producing it alongside Toho. Talking about Trigun Stampede, original Trigun author Yasuhiro Nightow said:
TRIGUN STAMPEDE. Trigun is coming. Not ‘coming back.’ It's ‘coming.’ The typhoon that started 25 years ago never disappeared. Biding its time as a calm wind, it met with a young singularity and became a whirlwind. After an enormous amount of analysis, restructuring, renovation and amplification, it has grown into a tornado with coiled up energy that's off the chart. Finally, the time has come. Finally, I can slam this beast on you. You will witness vividly new, yet an unmistakably recognizable Trigun. Trigun will always be Trigun, no matter how much you rework on it. Perhaps it's because the staff understands and protects what's at the core of this work. I'm proud of this tenacious work, if I do say so myself. Are you ready? Hang on tight, friends. Brace yourselves for Stampede.
Muto added:
Rather than simply tracing the original manga that started 27 years ago, we wanted to define the meaning of creating this work as an entertainment piece in this day and age. So Nightow-sensei, producers, and I talked again and again. In the far distant future, a spaceship lands on an unexplored planet called No Man's Land. Reminiscent of the American Old West, the residents of No Man's Land, who are the immigrants from Earth, create a new, free world where myriads of cultures and religions coexist, with guns in their hands. While it's a fantasy, we wanted to illustrate a world that resonates with our reality. We feel close and are drawn to the characters who do whatever they please in that world. It'll be a super cool battle-action series where outlaws, sheriffs, and gunslingers are constantly blazing guns. And please sense the twin brothers' clash of fate that lies underneath. It's my directorial debut, so it might not be perfect. But I'm confident that it's a ‘flawed-yet-attractive’ product. Please enjoy the journey of the invincible gunman Vash the Stampede, who never stops running away with no guns and no violence.
Which announcement and/or trailer has you the must pumped?