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NEWS: Attack on Titan Team's Kōtetsujō no Kabaneri Anime Trailers Reveal Premise, April Premiere

Ikoma, a young steam smith who make a living in Aragane Station making iron and steam engines. He and his good friend Takumi developed a weapon called "Tsuranuki Zutsu" in order to defeat the Kabane. Everyone makes light of him now, but he looks forward to a day when he will be triumphant.

Looks like it should be entertaining. Plus we need more steampunk.

Wow, those are really old-school looking character designs. Combine that with Studio Wit, and it's definitely something I'd look forward to.

noitaminA continues to mainstreamize...

Doesn't look too bad, but not like something special either. Action-focused, dark, dramatic with you typical serious shounen cast. Might be fun.

Hope Sawano doesn't overdo it, and since many of his works sound very similar, I also hope he tries a different style. (Probably won't happen.) The trailer music sounds good, but generic.

I'll probably watch this.

It's probably just going to be a whole lot of vocalized tracks that drown out the scene they're in again and Sawano hasn't had very much new or even enjoyable material since he made the switch to emphasizing that sort of thing. His music is kind of empty to me at this point and all it seems to do is attract the crowd that just doesn't seem to pay attention or care about variety or frankly music much and just echoes how hype it is over and over again. I honestly got tired of his style quite a while ago with Kill la Kill and it's tendency to just play the same vocalized leitmotifs over and over again every time the character it's tied to appears on scene to the point where it got rote and annoying. It's like okay great Ryuko's in the scene, now they'll cue up her song, and now Ragyo so we'll get her muddled German lyrics song like clockwork. It's just not exciting for me at all anymore and baffles me how it continues to be so much so for many others, I just want to see somebody else besides him and Kajiura get a shot at the next big action blockbuster looking anime for a change again.

Not really looking forward to this and yet strangely for the first time with an 2016 anime project I at least feel like checking out an episode or two because fudge at least it's an original and looks kind of like it has a budget but it'd really depend on how tolerable the soundtrack manages to be if I'd even consider going any further. That said about the only thing that really looks appealing and where I don't see much of a potential strong downside are Haruhiko Mikimoto's designs. Guy is still amazing and top class even after all these years, it's cool to see him and Yasuhiko Yoshikazu getting back into the anime but a shame that Mikimoto's efforts are probably going to be wasted on some big dumb hype project by lazy frankly overrated staffers with a clusterfuck of a story and nonsensical characterization and probably bad music...maybe generic if we're lucky.

Thank God we're finally getting the Attack on Titan/Rail Wars crossover we were all clamouring for. About time.

Characters' lines are nearly the same as AoT...