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Funimation Adds Hal, 009 Re:Cyborg Films

posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
Also: Company to stream Hyperdimension Neptunia anime

North American anime distributor Hyperdimension Neptunia television anime series.

The "near-future romance" film Hal Yoshimasa Hosoya), a boy she liked, in a plane accident. A robot "Robo Hal (Haru)" turns into her substitute for Haru.

Manga creator Sexy Voice and Robo, Q10) wrote the screenplay, which is not based on preexisting material.

Blast of Tempest) scored the music.

The film opened in Japan on June 8.

Kamiyama wrote and directed the action science-fiction film 009 Re:Cyborg inspired by Shōtarō Ishinomori's original manga. The story begins in 2013 when skyscrapers in London, Moscow, Berlin, and New York are destroyed by simultaneous bombings. The indiscriminate terrorism by an unknown group with unknown motives sets off widespread panic throughout the world.

There was once a group of nine cyborg fighters who rescued humanity from threats, but they had disbanded to their home countries. Now the man who created them, Dr. Gilmore, has summoned and assembled them back together again. However, the 00 Number Cyborgs' former leader, a Japanese man named Joe Shimamura (Kenji Kawai handled the music for the film, which opened in Japan in October 2012.

Hyperdimension Neptunia adapts Afilia Saga is performing the ending theme "Neptune☆Sagashite."

The show will star Kana Ueda as IF. The anime with an all-new story will premiere in Japan on July 12.

released Kami Jigen Game Neptune V as Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory in March. The first game anthropomorphizes the game console wars as female role-playing game characters.


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