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Milky☆Subway: The Galactic Limited Express CG Anime Casts Yukari Tamura

posted on by Joanna Cayanan
Tamura also sings as famous idol Minami Minase in anime premiering on Thursday

The official X (formerly Twitter) account of animator Yōhei Kameyama's Milky☆Subway: The Galactic Limited Express (Ginga Tokkyū Milky☆Subway), a sequel to his Milky☆Highway CG anime short, revealed on Tuesday that Yukari Tamura will voice Minami Minase, a famous idol, in the anime. The anime's staff posted a video of the anime's insert song "Tokimeki★Meteostrike" performed by Minami Minase, as voiced by Tamura.

Yukari Tamura as Minami Minase

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Image via Milky☆Subway anime's X/Twitter account

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Image via Milky☆Subway X/Twitter account

The anime will premiere on July 3 on the Tokyo MX channel at 9:54 p.m. JST, and will simultaneously stream on YouTube. The anime's dubbed versions in English, Portuguese, Spanish, Korean, Chinese, Thai, Indonesian, French, Hindi and Russian, will be available on YouTube.

The anime's English website describes the story:

Super human Chiharu and cyborg Makina got arrested for breaking space traffic laws.
They're stuck with a crew of misfits who got caught around the same time: Akane and Kanata, the super human pair; and Kurt and Max, the cyborg pals. Ryoko, the police officer, sentenced them to clean up the interplanetary train – the so-called “Milky☆Subway,” as their community service.

It should've been a simple job – until the train suddenly takes off into deep space! The crew scrambles in confusion as chaos unfolds onboard!

No purpose! No principle! No point!
A never-before-seen space-train spectacle, powered by nothing but pure momentum!

Kameyama once again directs, writes, and produces the sequel, and he also handled the character designs, modeling, animation, editing, and other duties mostly himself. Momoko Terasawa is voicing Chiharu in the sequel, while Anna Nagase voices Makina.

Additional cast members are:

The anime's theme song is "Gingakei Made Tonde Ike!" (Fly to the Galaxy!), the 1977 song by the girl group Candies.

Kameyama released the original Milky☆Highway short in 2022 as his graduation project for Kadokawa's Vantan Game Academy CG Animator major. The English-subtitled version (seen below) and the original version have 6.75 million views combined.

Mizuki Fumitsuki voiced Chiharu in the original short, while Kana Kobayashi voiced Makina.

Sources: Milky☆Subway: The Galactic Limited Express anime's X/Twitter account, Comic Natalie



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