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Takara Tomy's Tomica Kizuna Gattai Earth Granner Anime Reveals Opening Song, April 5 Debut

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Masayoshi Ōishi performs opening song for anime based on Tomica toy car brand

The staff of Tomica Kizuna Gattai Earth Granner (Tomica Bond Combination Earth Granner), the new television anime based on Takara Tomy's Tomica toy car brand, revealed on Wednesday that the anime will premiere on TV Osaka, TV Tokyo, and their affiliates on April 5. The show will air every Sunday at 9:30 a.m. The staff also revealed that Masayoshi Ōishi will perform the opening theme song "Sekai ga Kimi o Hitsuyō to Suru Toki ga Kitanda" (The Time Has Come for the World to Need You).

Tomica Kizuna Gattai Earth Granner is the first television anime based on the Tomica toy car brand since the 2017 anime series Tomica Hyper Rescue Drive Head Kidō Kyūkyū Keisatsu. The anime will commemorate Tomica's 50th anniversary.

The anime centers on the battles between the mysterious alien enemy Dark Spinner and the secret defense unit Earth Granner over Earth Energy, the energy generated from the Earth's rotation.

Shizuka Ishigami and Haruna Sakurai play the twin brothers and protagonists Raiga Kudō and Kūga Kudō, respectively. Nobuyuki Hiyama and Satoshi Hino play the Kudō twins' close comrades Gao Granner Leo and Gao Granner Eagle, respectively. Jun Fukuyama plays Gō Mach, a "super racer" affiliated with Earth Granner.

Shinji Ushiro (Yōkai Watch) is directing the anime at OLM, and Yuka Yamada (Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid, Asteroid in Love) is in charge of the series scripts. Yūko Inoue (Pocket Monster Side Story, Inazuma Eleven) is designing the characters. Noriyuki Asakura (Knights of Sidonia, Zoids Wild) is composing the music, and Yasunori Ebina is the sound director. Takara Tomy is credited with the original work.

The 2017 Tomica Hyper Rescue Drive Head Kidō Kyūkyū Keisatsu anime was the first anime inspired by the Tomica line of miniature toy cars. The anime premiered in Japan in April 2017, and ended in December 2017. A new net anime series then launched in January 2018.

An anime film titled Drive Head: Tomika Hyper Rescue Kidō Kyūkyū Keisatsu opened in Japan in August 2018.

Sources: Tomica Kizuna Gattai Earth Granner anime's website, Mainichi Shimbun's Mantan Web


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