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Aniplus HD to Air Attack on Titan: Junior High TV Anime on Monday
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Southeast Asian channel Aniplus HD announced on Friday that it will begin airing the Attack on Titan: Junior High TV anime on Monday. The anime will air at 10:00 p.m. in Indonesia and Thailand, and at 11:00 p.m. in Singapore.
Aniplus HD also began streaming an English-subtitled trailer for the series on Monday.
The manga re-imagines Eren, Mikasa, Armin, and other characters from the original manga as students and teachers at Titan Junior High School. The cast members from the original Attack on Titan anime are returning.
Yoshihide Ibata (Ashiaraiyashiki no Jūnin-tachi, episode director for Kill la Kill, Haikyu!!) is directing the series at Production I.G. Midori Gotou (Hozuki's Coolheadedness, Genshiken: Second Generation) is handling the series composition, Yūko Yahiro (Diabolik Lovers, B Gata H Kei - Yamada’s First Time) is the character designer, and Asami Tachibana (Haikyu!!, Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign, Robotics;Notes) is composing the music.
Linked Horizon (Attack on Titan's two opening themes) is performing the show's opening theme song "Seishun wa Hanabi no Yō ni" (Youth is Like Fireworks). Yūki Kaji (Eren), Kishô Taniyama (Jean), and Yui Ishikawa (Mikasa) are performing the ending theme song "Hangeki no Daichi" (Ground's Counterattack) under the unit name "Attackers."
The series premiered on MBS on October 3 at 25:58 (effectively October 4 at 1:58 a.m.). The series will also air on Tokyo MX, BS11, RKK, and SBS.
The show will feature an anime part, and then a live-action "special corner" part that will air after the anime portion of each episode. The live-action portion of the show will feature the the voice actors and voices actresses for Eren, Mikasa, Armin (Marina Inoue), and Bertholt (Tomohisa Hashizume) in a section called "Shingeki! Treasure Hunt." The live-action portion will also feature the voice actress for Sasha (Yū Kobayashi) in a section titled "Sasha Tries ?? By Herself!!," which she will host alongside a mascot character "Titan-kun."
