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Sonar Pocket to Perform World Trigger Anime's Theme Song

TV Asahi's official website for the television anime adaptation of Daisuke Ashihara's World Trigger manga announced on Wednesday that Sonar Pocket will perform the show's theme song "Girigiri."

The three-member unit from Nagoya noted that they are big fans of the manga, and that in order to not destroy the worldview of the series, the group reread the manga from the beginning and immersed themselves in the world of the series to create the song.

Sonar Pocket's single with "Girigiri" and another song titled "Egao no Riyū" will ship on November 5. The first limited edition and the standard edition will both come with versions that have a specially-designed World Trigger illustration on the jacket. The group previously performed theme songs for Danchi Tomoo and Digimon Fusion.

Mitsuru Hongo (Outlaw Star, Immortal Grand Prix second series) is directing the anime at Toei Animation with series composition by Hiroyuki Yoshino (Macross Frontier, Dance in the Vampire Bund). Toshihisa Kaiya (Tales of Vesperia ~The First Strike~, Tansuwarashi) is designing the characters and will also serve as animation director, while Kenji Kawai (Ranma 1/2, Fate/stay night) will compose the music for the soundtrack.

The series will star:

• Tomo Muranaka as Yūma Kuga
• Yūki Kaji as Osamu Mikumo
• Yūichi Nakamura as Yūichi Jin
• Nao Tamura as Chika Amatori
• Hideyuki Tanaka as Replica
• Rie Kugimiya as Kirie Konami
• Jun Fukuyama as Kyōsuke Karasuma
• Tomoaki Maeno as Reiji Kizaki
• Keiji Fujiwara as Takumi Rindō
• Takeshi Kusao as Masafumi Shinoda
• Masakazu Morita as Shūji Miwa
• Kana Hanazawa as Ai Kitora
• Nobuhiko Okamoto as as Jun Arashiyama

The World Trigger television anime from Toei Animation will premiere on Sundays at 6:30 a.m. on the TV Asahi station and its affiliates starting on October 5.

World Trigger debuted in last year's 11th issue of Japan's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine. Viz Media added the series to its digital anthology version of Weekly Shonen Jump, and it will publish the first print volume on October 7. Shueisha will publish the eighth compiled volume in Japan on October 3.

Viz Media describes the series as follows:

Weekly Shonen Jump's newest series is out of this world! A gate to another dimension has burst open, and from it emerge gigantic invincible creatures that threaten all of humanity. Earth's only defense is a mysterious group of warriors who have co-opted the alien technology in order to fight back!

Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine's Jump Special Anime Festa will screen a World Trigger anime at its tour this November.

Source: Comic Natalie