WagakkiBand Released the Animated Version of Full Size Music Video for Their Latest Song 'Aria of Life'

WagakkiBand released the animated version of full size music video for their latest song ‘Aria of Life’, which has just broadcasted for the first time as the opening for the TV Anime series, ‘MARS RED’.

April 17, 2021

WagakkiBand's song, 'Aria of life ' is used for the opening of the TV Anime series ‘MARS RED’, which has just aired this April, and the animated opening video was released for the first time for the second episode of the Anime and delighted the viewers.
The collaboration of the song, which is created especially to suit the world of animation, and the beautiful animated image had a huge ripple effect.
And the full size music video（MARS RED ver.）of ‘Aria of Life’ with the animation of ‘MARS RED’ is also released on the official YouTube channel of WagakkiBand.
The original music video (WagakkiBand ver.) of ‘Aria of Life’ gained 1 million views in the shortest period of time so far for the band.

This animated music video of the ‘Aria of Life’, which has just been on air today, on Monday the 19th of April, shows sneak-peeks into the future of the anime. The song is created especially as a collaboration of music and anime that complement each other and create a great realistic effect for the experience.

[ Link to the music video ]
‘Aria of Life’ Music Video （MARS RED ver.）by WagakkiBand
as the opening song for the TV Anime series 'MARS RED'
https://youtu.be/wyUdUP883QQ

‘MARS RED’ is originally a music recitation drama and this series is the first animated production for TV. This TV Anime series has been created with amazing talents and has gained great attention.
‘MARS RED’ is written by Bun-Ō Fujisawa who is the leading person of the world of music recitation drama. The character draft was created by Kemuri Karakara ('Donten ni Warau-Laughing under the cloud 'and ‘Rengou ni Warau’).
Series composition and screenplay was done by Junichi Fujisaku (screenplay of ‘Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex’ and director, series composition, direction and screenplay of ‘Blood+’)
The story is developed around '16th Special Force', known as ‘Code Zero’, which is an unit formed against vampires by Japanese government in Taisho era.
This TV anime is on air on Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation, TOKYO MX and its available for watching worldwide through bilibili and Funimation.

[Release information of WagakkiBand]
Release date: at 18:00 on Friday the 5th of February 2021
Artist:Wagakki Band
Title: Aria of Life
-The list of the stores which are releasing ‘Aria of Life’
https://wgb.lnk.to/aria_of_life
-WagakkiBand / ‘Aria of Life’ MUSIC VIDEO (Aria of Life)
https://youtu.be/qum43l6UZW0

[Information of the TV Anime MARS RED]
【Broadcast information】 – the timing of the on air may change.
Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation: Every Monday at 25:59 from the 5th of April 2021
TOKYO MX :Every Wednesday at 22:00 from the 7th of April
Chukyo Television Broadcasting: Every Thursday at 25:37 from the 8th of April 2021
BS Fuji Inc. :Every Wednesday at 24:30 from the 7th of April 2021
CS Family Gekijo :Every Sunday at 23：30 from the 11th of April


[ The second Promotion video of MARS RED, YouTube URL ]
https://youtu.be/tAZ32aGMYZs

[ The second volume of the comics of MARS RED ]
‘MARS RED’ (written by Bun-Ō Fujisawa , illustrated by Kemuri Karakara), has been published on ‘Monthly Comic Garden’ .
The second volume of the comics will be published from Mag Garden on the 14th of April.

-Cast
Shutaro Kurusu（CV：Tasuku Hatanaka） / Yoshinobu Maeda（CV：Junichi Suwabe） / Tokuichi Yamagami（CV：Kōichi Yamadera）
Takeuchi（CV：Akira Ishida） / Suwa（CV：Kenichi Suzumura ）/ Sonosuke NakajimaCV：Hiroshi Yanaka）
Aoi Shirase（CV：Fumiko Orikasa） / Deffrot(CV：Miyuki Sawashiro) / Misaki（CV：Ayashi Takagaki）
Rufus Glenn（CV：Makoto Furukawa） / Shinnosuke Tenmaya（CV：Sachi Kokuryu）

-Staff　
Writtend by Bun-Ō Fujisawa
Directed by Kohei Hatano
Series composition and screenplay by Junichi Fujisaku (screenplay of ‘Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex’ and director, series composition, direction and screenplay of ‘Blood+’)
Character draft by Kemuri Karakara ('Donten ni Warau-Laughinh under the cloud ' ‘Rengou ni Warau’)
Cahracter design by Yukari Takeuchi (Cahracter desing of ‘ Norn +Nonetto’ , animation director of the every story of ‘Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba’
Design works： Daisuke Niizuma / Setta
Art Director：Hiroshi Katō(Totonyan) / Hirofumi Sakagami（Totonyan）
Color design：Mitsuko Sekimoto
Director of photography：Hidenori Manaka（J.C.STAFF）
CG Director：Takuji Gotō（Tri-Slash）
Editor：Rie Matsubara
Music Director：Bun-Ō Fujisawa
Music：Toshiyuki Murakami
Direction chief：Shinya Sadamitsu
Animation production：SIGNAL.MD

[ Project Fan club ]
・the fan club for 'MARS RED Project' called ‘16th Special Force’ has been established.
You can join this fan club for free through the e-mail magazine.
You will be given a member number and ID and you will receive priority treatment including special offers and all the latest information. You can join this fan club from the official anime site or official project site.　

-Official Anime site :marsred.TV
-Official Project portal site:marsred-pj.net
-Official Anime Twitter: @marsredTV
ⓒBun-Ō Fujisawa／SIGNAL.MD／MARS RED production committee
Project for the 50th anniversary of establishment of Yomiuri-TV Enterprise

[ Link of WagakkiBand ]
-Official WagakkiBand site：https://wagakkiband.com/
-WagakkiBand YouTube Channel：https://www.YouTube.com/c/wagakkiband
-LINE：https://LINE.me/R/ti/p/@wagakkiband
-Twitter：https://twitter.com/WagakkiBand?s=20
-Facebook：https://www.Facebook.com/WagakkiBand
-Instagram：https://www.instagram.com/wagakkiband/