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Nico Touches the Walls, Tia Will Perform New Captain Earth Themes
posted on by Lynzee Loveridge
The official website for the Tia will perform the series' new theme songs. NICO TOUCHES THE WALLS will perform the opening theme, "TOKYO Dreamer" and Tia will sing the ending theme "The Glory Days."
The new opening theme can be heard in the latest Captain Earth television commercial.
The NICO TOUCHES THE WALLS rock band formed in 2004 with singer Haikyu!!
Tia is a singer and voice actress. She collaborated with multimedia group Noragami.
The series licensed the series for North America.
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.
Update: Title fixed. Thanks, Sarukah
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