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Sentai Filmworks Adds Captain Earth
posted on by Karen Ressler
Captain Earth anime series. The company plans to release the series on home video.
The series Crunchyroll where it is currently streaming as it airs in Japan.
The story of Captain Earth 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. 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 the 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….
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.
