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Ani-One Streams Gibiate, Umayon Anime Series

Hong Kong content distributor MediaLink Entertainment Limited's Ani-One YouTube channel announced on Friday that it will stream the Gibiate and Umayon anime. It also revealed that its stream of The Millionaire Detective - Balance: UNLIMITED will resume this July, after being delayed in April.

Yoshitaka Amano's Gibiate anime series will premiere in Japan on July 8. Gibiate Project, a global IP development group that includes Amano (Final Fantasy games), is developing the series. The group announced the anime at Anime Expo 2019 last July.

Gibiate Project describes the anime's "ultimate survival action" story:

In 2030, Japan. A virus has infected humans throughout the world.
Infected people turn into different forms of monsters based on their ages, sexes and races. The virus is named 'Gibia' - after being rich in variety like gibier.
Just then, a pair of samurai and ninja appeared in such a blighted wasteland of Japan.
They both travelled from the early Edo period, fighting together with help from a doctor who tries to find cure for Gibia.
Facing ceaseless attacks from Gibia, and outlaws that attack travelers for food, they start the dangerous journey with enemies all around.

Amano is credited as the original character designer of the upcoming anime, while Naoki Serizawa (Resident Evil manga, Saru Lock) is designing the monsters. Yuzo Koshiro (Ys, ActRaiser) is credited as "Sound Creator," and the Yoshida Brothers are the musical artists. Ryō Aoki (Girl Friend BETA, BONJOUR Sweet Love Patisserie, Endride) is credited with project planning and the original story.

Shamisen musicians the Yoshida Brothers and Sugizo (X Japan and Luna Sea's guitarist) perform the opening theme song "Gibiate." The Yoshida Brothers' new two-disc album THE YOSHIDA BROTHERS launched in January, and it includes the song "Gibiate." Sugizo and Maki Ohguro perform the ending theme song "Endless ~Across the Time~."

Umayon is a television anime adaptation of the Uma Musume Pretty Derby franchise's spinoff manga series. The anime will premiere in Japan on Tuesday.

Seiya Miyajima (BanG Dream! Girls Band Party! Pico) is directing the anime at DMM.futureworks and W-Toon Studio. Miyajima is drawing storyboards alongside the manga's Jin Itō, and also serving as the character designer and chief animation director.

Masanori Yamaguchi (Studio White) is directing the art, and Masahiro Hayashi is the compositing director of photography. Yūichi Morita is the sound director. Cygames is handling the music with Tetsuya Uchida as the music producer.

The cast members Azumi Waki, Akari Kitō, Iori Saeki, Minami Takahashi, and Rena Maeda are performing the show's theme song "Pyoitto Hareruya!" as their characters.

Jet Kuma (The Idolm@ster Cinderella Girls Gekijō) draws the original manga, and Jin Itō is in charge of storyboards. Cygames is credited with the original work.

Kuma launched the manga on Cygames' Cycomi website in March 2018. The four-panel manga centers on the everyday cute lives of the characters Special Week, Silence Suzuka, and more from the franchise.

Source: Ani-One Asia's Facebook page