Digital In-between Animation:
Aoi Satō (MAPPA Sendai Studio; OP)
Asuka Kuroda (MAPPA Sendai Studio; OP)
Tatsuya Harada (MAPPA Sendai Studio; OP)
Yuzuki Kawasumi (MAPPA Sendai Studio; OP)

Digital Paint:
Aoi Satō (MAPPA Sendai Studio; OP)
Asuka Kuroda (MAPPA Sendai Studio; OP)
Tatsuya Harada (MAPPA Sendai Studio; OP)
Yuzuki Kawasumi (MAPPA Sendai Studio; OP)

Editing:
Masato Yoshitake
Yuki Kamiya (OP)

In-Between Animation:
Hinata Ōe (Studio Kagayaki; OP)
Jia Hong Li (PIERROT FILMS; OP)
Kanna Sasaki (Yumeta Company; OP)
Li Zhu Zhao (Yumeta Company; OP)
Momoko Ogawa (OP)
Rei Matsui (OP)
Rieko Matsuoka (CoMix Wave Films; OP)
Riho Suehiro (OP)
Sango (OP)
Sarasa Onodera (Yumeta Company; OP)
Tao Atoyama (OP)

In-between Animation Production: Miyu Mizuma

In-Between Check: Riho Suehiro (OP)

Insert Song Performance: Maximum The Hormone ("Hawatari 2-Oku Centi [Zentai Suitei 70% Kaikin edit]")

Key Animation:
10＋10
Adam Zheng
Ai Takashi
Ai Yukimura (OP; movie)
Ajin (OP)
AK (OP)
Akira Hamaguchi
Amoji
Aya Suzuki
Aya Yamamoto
Ayaka Minoshima
Ayaka Tsuji (OP; movie)
Bahi JD
Benjamin Faure
Boy Estero
bs_kim (OP)
Chiharu Kuroda
Chiharu Yoshida (OP)
Chris
Daniel Kim
Duong (OP)
Eri Taguchi (OP)
Fasto
Glens Sou (studio chromato, OP)
Harumi Yamazaki (OP)
Haruna Hashimoto
Hayato Kurosaki
Hideki Hamazaki
Hiromitsu Tanaka (OP)
Hirotaka Katō (OP)
Hisashi Mori
Hokuto Sakiyama
Houwa
Ikuo Yamakado
jiji (OP)
Julian Bentley
Junpei Chikasawa (STUDIO POLARIS)
Kahaku Kurono
Kaito Tomioka
KanzashiAme
Kazuki Chiba
Kazuto Arai (OP; movie)
Keiichirō Watanabe
Keiko Fukumoto
Keisuke Okada
Kenji Sawada
Kōhei Hirota
Kōichi Arai (OP)
Kōki Fujimoto (OP; movie)
Kura
Makoto Nakazono (OP)
Manabu Akita
Marie Tagashira (OP)
Mark Kenta Corcoran

Masako Tashiro (OP; movie)
Masato Yonemura
Mayu Inoue
Moaang
Myan (OP; movie)
MYOUN (OP)
Naoki Chigira
Naoki Kobayashi
nasiijau
Natsuki Shimabukuro (OP)
Nothing Yukun
Odashi (OP)
Proro
Reimi Eda (OP)
Rie Aoki
Riki Matsuura
Riku
Ryōma Hattori
Sakura Watabe (OP)
Sangeun Song
Satoshi Sakai
Saucelot
Seika Hattori (OP)
Seishirō Nagaya (ZEXCS)
Seo Kim Jang (OP)
Shin Kaneko (OP)
Shinsaku Kōzuma (OP; movie)
Shinya Itō (OP)
Shinya Kaneko
Shōichi
Shotarou Ban
Shū Sugita
Shun
Shun Enokido (OP)
Shun Miyakawa
Sōta Shigetsugu (OP; movie)
Sota Yamazaki
Su Min Oh
Tadashi Hiramatsu
Takahiro Watabe
Takahito Sakazume (OP)
Takeshi Seo
Takuya Niinuma
Takuya Suezawa
Tatsuya Harada (OP)
Tatsuya Yoshihara
Tōko Yatabe (OP)
Tomohiro Kishi (OP)
Tomoki Yoshikawa
Tomoyo Nakayama
Toru Iwazawa
Toshiyuki Satō
Xinxiong Ceng
Yooto
Yoshiko Matsumura (OP)
Yu Min Jeon (OP)
Yūka Inada
Yuki Kikuchi
Yumi Akaishi (OP)
Yumiko Yamamoto (OP)
Yūri Ichinose
Yurika Nakanishi
Yuriko Ishii
Yūta Shinohara

Main Animator: Shōichi

Motion Graphics: Yuki Kamiya (OP)

Original Work Management Producer: Shihei Lin

Paint:
Akane Yamazaki (D-COLORS)
Anna Okamatsu (Kinema citrus)
Aya Kojima (Yumeta Company)
Ayaka Itakura (MAPPA)
Ayaka Kamata (Wish)
Ayaka Murakami (A-1 Pictures)
Ayaka Nakamura (WIT STUDIO)
Ayaka Ogyū (Wish)
Ayako Suenaga (MAPPA)
Chieko Tokuda (MAPPA)
Chiharu Abe (Bandai Namco Pictures Creative Room)
Chiharu Hashimoto (D-COLORS)
Chihiro Ōno (Shaft)
Chizuru Takahashi (Bandai Namco Pictures Creative Room)
Erika Hozumi (Bandai Namco Pictures Creative Room)
Erika Tanaka (Wish)
Fujiko Oomori (Production I.G)
Huan Wei Zhao (SILVER LINK.)
Itsuku Onishi (MAPPA)
Junya Suzuki (MAPPA)
Kana Tanabe (MAPPA)
Kasumi Hatakeyama (Yumeta Company)
Kayano Minakami (Yumeta Company)
Kazuki Sakai (Stella; OP)
Keito Kikuchi (Stella; OP)
Kōki Imamoto (Wish)
Kyōko Satō (Studio Kagura)
Mana Hayashi (MAPPA)
Mana Hokuto (A-1 Pictures)
Manami Yamaguchi (SILVER LINK.)
Mayato Nozaki (A-1 Pictures)
Megumi Aoi
Mei Kishimoto (Shaft)
Mihoko Kikuchi (MADBOX)
Miku Nishinosono (Wish)
Minori Nishida (MAPPA)
Minori Otsuka (A-1 Pictures)
Misaki Nanako (MAPPA)
Misaki Yamazawa (A-1 Pictures)
Mitsuko Ikeda (Production I.G)
Miwa Enji (D-COLORS)
Miyu Fukui (MAPPA)
Miyu Sasakura (SILVER LINK.)
Miyuki Watanabe (Yumeta Company)
Mizue Kadoshita (D-COLORS)
Mo Li Xing (MAPPA)
Mona Funaki (A-1 Pictures)
Motoko Ito (Bandai Namco Pictures Creative Room)
Nanami Kakeda (Production I.G)
Naoki Sueda (Yumeta Company)
Naomi Hirata (A-1 Pictures)
Naomi Nakano (Stella; OP)
Natsumi Ochi (Wish)
Nodoka Imai (RICE FIELD)
Oriko Muramoto (Studio Kagura; OP/Movie)
Reina Iizuka (A-1 Pictures)
Rie Arai (Stella)
Rieko Umemura (Wish)
Rika Aizawa
Riru Oyamada (A-1 Pictures)
Sachiko Iura (Studio Kagura)
Satsuki Kamoi (D-COLORS)
Sayana Shinobu (D-COLORS)
Shinji Matsubara (Production I.G)
Shizune Sakamoto (Wish)
So Hyun Kang (MADBOX)
Takako Kotani (RICE FIELD)
Tomoe Oku (Stella; OP)
Yomo
Yoshiko Shibasaki (Bandai Namco Pictures Creative Room)
Yoshiko Yamada (Bandai Namco Pictures Creative Room)
Yuika Nagai (Stella; OP)
Yūji Maruyama (SILVER LINK.)
Yuki Kadomatsu (Stella; OP)
Yuki Tonegawa (Studio Kagura; OP/Movie)
Yuki Yanagiya (Bandai Namco Pictures Creative Room)
Yūko Koshida (Stella)
Yūko Watabe (Yumeta Company)
Yurie Fukuda (Studio Kagura)

Paint Check:
Kazuki Sakai (Stella)
Keito Kikuchi (Stella; OP)
Narumi Konno (WIT STUDIO)

Photography:
Akihito Suzuki (A-1 Pictures)
Anzaki Oho (MAPPA; OP/Movie)
Chika Toda (MAPPA)
Chiyuki Kojima (Asahi Production)
Daiki Fujita (Asahi Production)
Hikaru Yamamoku (Asahi Production)
Hiroki Ishida (CygamesPictures)

Itsuki Kamei (MAPPA)
Kaori Yoneda (MAPPA; OP)
Kazuhiro Funabiki (Asahi Production)
Kazuki Saitō (Asahi Production)
Kazumitsu Hirayama (CygamesPictures)
Keisuke Nozawa (Graphinica Sapporo Studio)
Madoka Tada (Graphinica Sapporo Studio)
Madoka Yagi (MAPPA; OP/Movie)
Maho Kuwata (Graphinica Sapporo Studio)
Mako Mikami (Graphinica Sapporo Studio)
Manami Igarashi (MAPPA; OP)
Masaharu Okazaki (CygamesPictures)
Miho Kaga (A-1 Pictures)
Mika Watanabe (Graphinica Sapporo Studio)
Naho Hasegawa (Asahi Production)
Natsumi Irie (CygamesPictures)
Rikuhiro Sukegawa (MAPPA; OP/Movie)
Rio Konishi (MAPPA; OP/Movie)
Ryōsuke Baba (A-1 Pictures)
Ryuya Shihara (MAPPA; OP/Movie)
Satoru Kuroiwa (A-1 Pictures)
Shuichi Nishi (Asahi Production)
Shun Ando (Asahi Production)
Shunsuke Taniguchi (MAPPA; OP/Movie)
Su In Lee (MAPPA; OP/Movie)
Teppei Ito (MAPPA; OP)
Tomomi Fujita (MAPPA; OP/Movie)
Toshiaki Aoshima (A-1 Pictures)
Tsumi Oda (Asahi Production)
Wakana Isoyama (MAPPA; OP/Movie)
Wei Ying Dai (MAPPA)
Yohei Miyawaki (A-1 Pictures)
Yōta Muraki (Graphinica Sapporo Studio)
Yui Aoki (MAPPA)
Yuki Kamiya (OP)
Yūki Wada (Asahi Production)
Zi Ying Zhang (CygamesPictures)

Photography Manager: Ken Fujitani (MAPPA)

Produce Cooperation: Shinya Shinozaki

Production Advancement:
Masahiro Yokota
Miku Fukushima
Naotake Muraoka
Takahirou Ono (OP)

Production Advancement Assistant:
Kazuma Matsumoto

Mayo Isomoto
Miyu Mizuma
Rima Tanaka
Seiya Kawano
Umi Yokochi

Production Desk:
Masahiro Yokota
Naotake Muraoka

Prop Design: Susumu Mamura

Studio Management: Tsukasa Kakizakai

Sub-Character Design:
Shun
Sota Yamazaki

Theme Song Composition: Kenshi Yonezu (OP; ED)

Theme Song Lyrics: Kenshi Yonezu (OP; ED)

Theme Song Performance:
Hikaru Utada (ED)
Kenshi Yonezu (OP; ED)

Unit Direction Cooperation: usi (OP)

Fairouz Ai as Power

Kikunosuke Toya as Denji

Reina Ueda as Reze

Shōgo Sakata as Aki Hayakawa

Tomori Kusunoki as Makima

Eri Kitamura as Typhoon Devil

Hidenori Takahashi as Division 2 Vice Captain

Karin Takahashi as Kobeni Higashiyama

Kenji Akabane as Nomo

Kenji Nomura as Mysterious Man

Kenjirō Tsuda as Kishibe

Maaya Uchida as Angel Devil

Natsuki Hanae as Beam (Shark Fiend)

Shiori Izawa as Pochita

Yūya Uchida as Violence Fiend

Japanese companies

3D Graphics:
5 Inc. (OP)
MAPPA

3D Modeling: MAPPA

3D Setup: MAPPA

3DCG Assistance: SANZIGEN

3DCG Direction: Kayac Akiba Studio

3DCG Layout: MAPPA

3DCG Modeling: 5 Inc. (OP)

Animation Production: MAPPA

Background Art: Bamboo

Background Art Assistance:
Bihou, Inc.
Creative Freaks
MAPPA

Background Art Management:
Bihou, Inc.
Creative Freaks
MAPPA

CG Production Management:
5 Inc. (OP)
MAPPA
Yggdrazil Group

Color Coordination:
A-1 Pictures
D-COLORS
Stella
Wit Studio

Color Design: Stella

Digital In-between Animation:
ENGI
GK Sales
IRO Animation
M.S.J Musashino Production
MAPPA Sendai Studio
MAPPA Tokyo Studio
RadPlus
Revival
Shanghai Phantom
Studio Massket
Studio Tokoro
Studio Yashinoki
Suming Culture
Wuxi Qicai Donghua

Digital Paint:
ENGI
GK Sales
IRO Animation
M.S.J Musashino Production
MAPPA Sendai Studio
MAPPA Tokyo Studio
RadPlus
Revival
Shanghai Phantom
Studio Massket
Studio Tokoro
Studio Yashinoki
Suming Culture
Wuxi Qicai Donghua

Distributor: TOHO

Key Animation:
POLARIS
ZEXCS

Paint:
A-1 Pictures
Bandai Namco Pictures Creative Room
D-COLORS
Kagura
Kinema Citrus
MADBOX
MAPPA
Production I.G
RICE FIELD
SHAFT
SILVER LINK.
Stella
Wish
Wit Studio
Yumeta Company

Paint Check:
A-1 Pictures
D-COLORS
Stella
Wit Studio

Photography:
A-1 Pictures
Asahi Production
CygamesPictures
Graphinica Sapporo Studio
MAPPA (OP/Movie)
sankaku (OP)

Photography Assistance:
Asura Film
FAI International
GK Sales
Graphinica
J.C. Staff
Makaria
Production I.G
Studio Tokoro
Tera Effect
Wuxi Qicai Donghua
Yumeta Company

Production Committee: MAPPA

English cast

English staff

(none)

Alexis Tipton as Reze

Reagan Murdock as Aki Hayakawa

Ryan Colt Levy as Denji

Sarah Wiedenheft as Power

Suzie Yeung as Makima

Casey Mongillo as Angel Devil

Derick Snow as Beam (Shark Fiend)

Jason Douglas as Kishibe

Josh Bangle as Violence Fiend

Lindsay Seidel as Pochita

English companies

Licensed by: Crunchyroll

Spanish staff

Spanish cast

(none)

Emilio Treviño as Denji

Gaby Gris as Makima

Jessica Angeles as Reze

Spanish companies

Distributor: Sony Pictures

Polish staff

Polish companies

(none)

Theatrical Distributor: United International Pictures

Polish cast

(none)

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