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Bones Streams Robot TV Anime Captain Earth's 1st Promo
posted on by Egan Loo
The official website for the BONES opened on Sunday and began streaming the first promotional video.
The story begins when second-year high school student Daichi Manatsu suddenly spies a mysterious circular rainbow floating in the skies over Tanegashima island on television, on the evening before summer vacation begins.
"I've seen that rainbow before…" Moved by intense foreboding, he heads to Tanegashima, the home of Japan's Tanegashima Space Center, by himself.
The mystery of his father's accidental death. Memories of mysterious boys and girls he met during childhood. Daichi arrives at the island full of complex emotions, and as alarms sound at the center, he encounters the robot "Earth Engine."
Daichi is asked, "Are you the Captain?" The target is the mysterious all-mechanical lifeform "Kirutogangu" that is invading from Uranus. Now, when the stars in the skies are ablaze, the curtains open on their battle….
The website features the English taglines: "A summer story of a boy who searched for the truth," and "When I opened the door called truth, my childhood ended. It was a summer I could never forget."
BONES is reuniting Sailor Moon Super S. Enokido said that, whereas Star Driver was a "school robot" story, they are now doing a conventional robot anime.
Masatsugu Saitō is credited for design works.
Shigeru Nishiyama is the editor.
monaca is scoring the soundtrack.
The television series will premiere next April.
Thanks to Maxim Firsov for the embedded video
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