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CITY The Animation Previews Opening Song in 2nd Trailer Video
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The official website for CITY The Animation, the television anime of Keiichi Arawi's CITY manga, started streaming the anime's second promotional video on Sunday. The video previews the opening theme song "Hello" by Riho Furui. The anime's staff also revealed that the show will start streaming on Amazon Prime Video in Japan on July 7 at 24:30 JST (effectively, July 8 at 12:30 a.m.)
The anime will star:
- Mikako Komatsu as Midori Nagumo
- Aki Toyosaki as Niikura
- Yui Ishikawa as Wako Izumi
- Yoshihisa Kawahara as Tsurubishi Makabe
- Miyu Irino as Tatewaku Makabe
- Ayaka Nanase as Matsuri Makabe
- Azusa Tadokoro as Eri Amakazari
- Yū Wakui as Riko Izumi
- Takehito Koyasu as Dr. Adatara/Adatara's father
- Mayumi Asano as Adatara's mother
- KENN as Tatsuta Adatara
- Satoshi Inomata as Ryōta Adatara
- Coco Hayashi as Kamome Adatara
- Haruna Fukushima as Umi Adatara
- Yūki Tenma as Sora Adatara
- Yū Miyazaki as Kamaboko Oni
- Ryōta Suzuki as Todoroki
- Kazutomi Yamamoto as Obaba
- Kiyomitsu Mizuuchi as Ii Hito (the Good Guy)
- Yūko Gotō as Sumire Sakurakomi Tanabe
- Jin Domon as Hotaka
- Makoto Kaneko as Rindō Obina
- Atsushi Kousaka as Yamato Kurogane
- Jun Fukuyama as Nobuteru Tekaridake
- Hōchū Ōtsuka as Narrator
Tamami Tokuyama (animation director for Sound! Euphonium: Ensemble Contest Arc, key animator for Liz and the Blue Bird) is credited as both the character designer and chief animation director. Shiori Yamazaki (background art for Violet Evergarden: The Movie, Sound! Euphonium The Movie - Our Promise: A Brand New Day) is the art director. Additionally, Kana Miyata is the color designer, Hiroki Ueda is the director of photography, Tatsunori Kase is the 3D director, and Yōta Tsuruoka is the sound director. The members of the quartet Piranhans are composing the anime's music. Pony Canyon is in charge of music production.
Singer-songwriter TOMOO performs the ending theme song "Lucky."
Taichi Ishidate (Violet Evergarden, Beyond the Boundary) is directing the anime at Kyoto Animation. The anime will be the first non-sequel anime for Kyoto Animation in six years.
Kyoto Animation describes the anime:
This town, is not just a normal town. There's laughter, love and emotional moments. An unpredictable ordinary life presented by the residents! Exciting stuffs come one after another. Welcome to CITY.
Arawi (Nichijou, Helvetica Standard) launched the manga in Kodansha's Morning magazine in September 2016, and ended the series in February 2021. Kodansha published the 13th and final compiled book volume in April 2021.
Vertical (now Kodansha USA) published the entire series in English. The manga is also available on Kodansha's K MANGA service.
The manga returned in Kodansha's Morning magazine on December 12.
Sources: CITY The Animation anime's website, Comic Natalie
