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Atom the Beginning Anime Reveals Premiere Date, New Key Visual

posted on by Karen Ressler

The official website for the television anime Amazon Prime Video in Japan at 1:30 a.m. on Sunday, April 16.

The anime will have a stage event on March 26 at the AnimeJapan 2017 event in Tokyo. Nakamura, Inoue, Sakurai, Komatsu, and Sakura will attend the event.

Atom The Beginning's story takes place in Japan after a great calamity. There were two geniuses who dreamed of the future. One was Umatarō Tenma. The other was Hiroshi Ochanomizu. The two labored day and night in robot research — Tenma to create a "god," and Ochanomizu to create a "friend." Thus a robot, A106, was born from their collaborative friendship. Would A106 really become a god, or a friend? The manga and anime tell a prequel story leading up to the birth of Astro Boy.

The show stars:

Fairy Tail's Gray Fullbuster) as Umatarō Tenma


Durarara!!'s Saburou Togusa) as Hiroshi Ochanomizu


Tenshi no 3P!'s Kyō Mekui) as A106 (pronounced "A-ten-six")

Code Geass' Suzaku Kururugi) as Moriya Tsutsumi

Fuuka's Sara Iwami) as Motoko Tsutsumi

Love Live!'s Arisa Ayase) as Ran Ochanomizu

Aldnoah.Zero's Kisaki Matsuribi) as Kensaku Han

Hakuōki's Keisuka Sannan) as Shunsaku Han

Yoshino Nanjō (Love Live!'s Eli Ayase) as Maria

Nanjō will also perform the ending theme song "Hikari no Hajimari" (The Beginning of Light). The musical duo perform the opening theme song "Kaidoku Funō" (Indecipherable).

University of Tokyo special associate professor) are supervising the anime.

Kasahara (Patlabor the Mobile Police, Birdy the Mighty creator) is credited with "concept works" for the series. Shogakukan shipped the fourth volume on December 5.

[Via Anime! Anime!]


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