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New World Trigger Anime Previewed in 1st Trailer

posted on by Adriana Hazra
Anime premieres on January 9

Toei Animation started streaming the first full trailer for the new season of the television anime of Daisuke Ashihara's World Trigger manga on Saturday. While the video is region-locked to Japan, the anime's official Twitter account is also streaming a region-free 15-second version of the video, but with a different narrator.

The anime will premiere on January 9 as part of TV Asahi's NUMAnimation programming block. The new season's first two episodes will have a special screening run with exclusive footage in 12 theaters in Japan from December 25 to January 7.

The anime will feature the following returning cast:

The new cast members for the anime include:

Hisao Egawa as Gatlin

Toshiyuki Toyonaga as Ratarikov

Mie Sonozaki as Wen Sō

Kenjiro Tsuda as Koskero

Ayumu Murase as Reghindetz

Ryoko Shiraishi as Yomi

Morio Hatano (Saint Seiya Omega's first season, Dragon Ball Super's Future Trunks Saga, episode director for Hugtto! Precure and Star Twinkle Precure) is serving as the series director. Hiroyuki Yoshino, Toshihisa Kaiya, and Kenji Kawai all return from the previous World Trigger anime to supervise the series scripts, design the characters, and compose the music, respectively.

South Korean boy band TOMORROW X TOGETHER is performing the main theme song "Force." Motoko Ōmori of the rock band Mrs. Green Apple wrote the song specifically for the anime. Rock band Kami wa Saikoro o Furanai is performing the ending theme song "Mirai Eigō" (The Endless Future).

Ashihara debuted the manga in Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in 2013. The manga went on hiatus since November 2016 due to Ashihara's poor physical health, and returned in the magazine in October 2018 for five issue before moving to Shueisha's Jump SQ. magazine in December 2018. The manga then took a one-month break in May 2019 so that Ashihara could recover from intestinal obstruction complications that arose from his recent cholecystectomy (gall bladder removal surgery). The manga took another one-month break in November 2019 due to Ashihara's poor physical health. The series also had a one-month break this past August due to Ashihara's health.

Ashihara took a one-week break in September 2014 to treat the nerve roots affected by cervical spondylosis (wear and tear on neck area of spinal column), and has since taken several one-week breaks due to sudden illness.

Viz Media publishes the series simultaneously in its digital anthology version of Weekly Shonen Jump. The manga inspired two television anime seasons in 2014 and 2015.

Update: Added region-free 15-second version of video from anime's official Twitter account.

Sources: World Trigger anime's website, Comic Natalie via Otakomu


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