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TRUSTRICK Perform Danganronpa 3 Anime's 'Future Arc' Ending Theme Song

The official website for this year's Danganronpa 3 -The End of Kibōgamine Gakuen- (Danganronpa 3 -The End of Hope's Peak Academy-) television anime announced on Tuesday that the band TRUSTRICK will perform the ending theme song for the anime's "Mirai Hen" (Future Arc).

The theme song's title is "Recall THE END." The song's CD single will ship on August 10. Narasaki from the band Coaltar of the Deepers (Paradise Kiss, Mawaru Penguindrum) is credited as the song's sound producer and arranger.

TRUSTRICK is already collaborating with Maon Kurosaki to perform the opening theme song "DEAD OR LIE" for Danganronpa 3's "Mirai Hen."

The members of TRUSTRICK are singer Sayaka Kanda and guitarist Billy. The duo previously performed the theme songs to both Danganronpa stage play adaptations. They also performed the opening theme to the My Love Story!! and Shōnen Maid anime series.

The television anime series will be the conclusion of the "Hope's Peak Academy" series' original story. The anime will premiere both its "Mirai Hen" (Future Arc) and "Zetsubō Hen" (Despair Arc) parts in July. As a result, two new Danganronpa 3 episodes will premiere every week. "Mirai Hen" will focus on the characters from the first game installment, while the "Zetsubō Hen" will tell the story of the characters of the Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair game. The anime will illustrate what happened to the characters before the events of the game.

The cast for for "Mirai Hen" includes:

Megumi Ogata as Makoto Naegi

Yōko Hikasa as Kyōko Kirigiri

Saki Fujita as Seiko Kimura

Inori Minase as Ruruka Andō

Takuya Eguchi as Sōnosuke Izayoi

Hidekatsu Shibata as Kazuo Tengan

Keiji Fujiwara as Kōichi Kizakura

Kanata Hongou as Ryōta Mitarai

Rie Kugimiya as Daisaku Bandai

Kenta Miyake as Great Gozu

Chiwa Saito as Aoi Asahina

Masaya Matsukaze as Yasuhiro Hagakure

Takako Sasuga as Monomi

Toshiyuki Morikawa as Kyōsuke Munakata

Mai Nakahara as Chisa Yukizome

Junichi Suwabe as Jūzō Sakakura

The site also lists the character Miaya Gekkogahara, but doesn't list a cast member.

The cast for "Zetsubō Hen" includes:

Yoshimasa Hosoya as Kazuichi Sōda
Megumi Ogata as Nagito Komaeda
Ami Koshimizu as Ibuki Mioda
Ai Kayano as Mikan Tsumiki
Yu Kobayashi as Mahiru Koizumi
Suzuko Mimori as Hiyoko Saionji
Romi Park as Akane Owari
Hiroki Yasumoto as Nekomaru Nidai
Jun Fukuyama as Teruteru Hanamura
Daisuke Kishio as Fuyuhiko Kuzuryu
Kotono Mitsuishi as Peko Pekoyama
Kanata Hongou as Ryōta Mitarai
Tomokazu Sugita as Tanaka the Forbidden
Miho Arakawa as Sonia Nevermind
Minami Takayama as Hajime Hinata

TARAKO will replace Nobuyo Oyama in the role of mascot character Monokuma in the upcoming television anime and other installments in the franchise.

The website previously posted story descriptions for both arcs.

For Mirai Hen Kazutaka Kodaka is in charge of the original scenario concepts and overall supervision. Rui Komatsuzaki is credited with the original character designs, and Seiji Kishi is the chief director. Norimitsu Kaihō (School-Live!, Gunslinger Stratos: The Animation) is in charge of the scenario on the project, and animation studio Lerche is returning to animate the project. Kazuaki Morita and Ryoko Amisaki are designing the anime's characters. The Danganronpa Design Team is credited with the original background designs. Masafumi Takada is composing the music, and Yoshinori Terasawa is the "Otasuke Producer."

The group binaria is performing the opening theme for the anime's "Zetsubō Hen" (Despair Arc).

Funimation streamed the Danganronpa The Animation television anime series, based on Spike Chunsoft's PlayStation Portable/PlayStation Vita game, as the anime aired in Japan in Summer 2013. Funimation then released the series on DVD and Blu-ray last November with an English dub.

NIS America released the first and second Danganronpa games on PS Vita in North America and Europe last year under the names Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc and Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair. It also released the spinoff game Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls (Zettai Zetsubō Shōjo Danganronpa: Another Episode, or Absolute Despair Girl Danganronpa: Another Episode).

Spike Chunsoft announced a new entry in the game series titled New Danganronpa V3: Minna no Koroshiai Shin Gakki (New Danganronpa V3: Everyone's New Semester of Killing). The new game will not take place at Hope's Peak Academy and will not feature any other returning characters. Spike Chunsoft is developing the game for the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita and plans to release it in 2016.

[Via Otasuke]