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Rock Band Flumpool Performs Captain Earth's Opening Song
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The Japanese rock band Captain Earth television series from the anime studio Bones. The song will be on the band's The Best 2008-2014 "Monument" album when it ships on May 21. This will be the band's first opening theme song for an anime.
The band said the song carries a powerful melody to send a firm message, "always choose your own path going forward and then walk it." A video spot with this theme song will stream on the anime's official website this Saturday, March 15 at 6:00 p.m. (5 a.m. ET)
The popular band Bloody Monday in 2008.
The story of Captain Earth begin 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. A 17-year-old boy named Teppei Arashi then asks why Daichi has returned to this island. Daichi replies that he came back to fulfill a promise.
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 Kill-T-Gang that is invading from the orbit of Uranus. Now, when the stars in the skies are ablaze, the curtains open on their battle….
The cast includes:
Hiroshi Kamiya as Teppei Arashi, a 17-year-old boy who harbors powers beyond those of humans, as well as a sense of alienation
Ai Kayano as Hana Mutō, a girl who looks 17 years old, but whose true identity is unknown
Rina Hidaka as Akari Yomatsuri, a 17-year-old genius hacker
Rikiya Koyama as Tsutomu Nishikubo, the commander of the Globe Tanegashima Base and a close friend of Daichi's father and Daichi
Amara, a Kill-T-Gang Amarokku humanoid and the Planetary Gear Device leader
Maaya Sakamoto as Moco, a Kill-T-Gang Mōrukin humanoid who despises Daichi. She is the first Kill-T-Gang.
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 in April.
Source: animeanime.jp
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