“Black Rock Shooter: Dawn Fall” Anime Releases Full Trailer With Premiere Date
The official website for “Black Rock Shooter: Dawn Fall” released a new full trailer and key art with the announcement of the premiere date for the upcoming action anime. The series is set to stream on April 3, 2022 on Disney+ Japan.
In addition, the official website revealed the anime’s storyline: “2062 AD. Twenty years after the devastated Earth, after the failure of a major labor automation project, its core artificial intelligence Artemis chose to fight humanity. A girl, Empress, wakes up at an underground research facility at a certain base. She was one of the survivors of the three guardians of mankind. But she has no previous memory of her. The Colonel of the Peacebuilding Army tells Empress. Empress has a mission to destroy the orbital elevator that connects the moon and the earth, which Artemis is currently constructing, before it is completed. When completed, a large number of giant mechanical forces mass-produced on the moon will come to Earth. However, the Dead Master and Strength, who should have been friends, the unmanned army who is the minion of Artemis, and the smiley of the cult group (educational institution) try to block the way. Empress heads for the orbital elevator with her colonel while various speculations intersect. What is waiting for her…”
The new trailer also revealed the ending theme song "Before the Nightmare" by Kanako Takatsuki. It was previously announced that the opening theme song will be "ASEED" by singer ZAQ. Additional cast was announced including:
Ayaka Asai as “Monica”, a skilled systems engineer and self-described hacker,
Misaki Kuno as “Black Trike”, the highly maneuverable military support vehicle used by Empress,
and Takuya Kirimoto as “Colonel”, the special forces leader of the peace-building force resisting the AI Artemis.
Bibury Animation Studio will be handing the production of “Black Rock Shooter: Dawn Fall” with Motoki Tanaka as the director. The anime stars Yui Ishikawa as “Empress” aka “Black Rock Shooter”, Saori Hayami as “Dead Master”, and Megumi Han as “Strength”. No word as of yet if Disney will release the new anime on platforms outside of Japan.
“Black Rock Shooter” franchise began as an original character art released in 2007 by Ryohei Fuke aka huke. The art inspired a song and promo video of the same title by supercell using the Hatsune Miku Vocaloid. In addition, a “Black Rock Shooter” OVA anime film was released in 2010. A TV anime was later released in 2012 reimagining the story from the OVA. Both anime adaptations were directed by Shinobu Yoshioka and produced by studio Ordet. The franchise went on to release games, figures, and a spinoff manga.
The franchise recently announced the upcoming game “Black Rock Shooter Fragment” for the iOS and Android. According to the game’s Twitter, it will be “an original story set in another world that is different from the world of TV animation”. G2 Studios is developing “Black Rock Shooter Fragment” with Good Smile Company as publisher. The game is set to launch Fall 2022.
The original “Black Rock Shooter” TV anime series was released on Blu-ray by Discotek Media in July 2021.
“Black Rock Shooter” TV Series Synopsis: If you took the pain from the ones you loved and never gave them yours in return, would you consider that fair? Or would it be selfish? Mato Kuroi meets Yomi Takanashi on her first day of school, and wants nothing more than to be her friend. But Yomi’s life is not so simple as hers. For every blunt friendly overture Mato makes, she overlooks the more subtle emotions, and soon enough what starts with a shared love for a fairy tale turns into something much darker. All the while, Mato’s dreams show her a girl embroiled in constant battle with other girls who look suspiciously like her friends. But could they be more than just dreams?
Sources: Black Rock Shooter website and Twitter. Disney+ Japan Twitter. Black Rock Shooter Fragment Twitter and website.
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