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Netflix Reveals Premiere Dates for 2nd Godzilla Anime Film, Dragon Pilot, Kengan Ashura (Updated)

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Anime Expo on Thursday. The premiere dates include:

• Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle: July 18
• Kengan Ashura: 2019
• Dragon Pilot: September 21
• Cannon Busters: March 1, 2019
• Castlevania season 2: October 26

Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle (ranked at #8 in its opening weekend at the box office.

The third and final film in the trilogy is titled Godzilla: Hoshi wo Kū open in Japan in November.

streaming the film worldwide on January 17.

Anime Expo is Pony Canyon.

The anime is slated to air on television in 2019, although the staff haven't yet revealed the format of the anime.

In the manga's story, businesses and merchants wager large sums of money to hire combatants for unarmed hand-to-hand fighting matches. The winner takes all in these Kengan competitions that originated during the Edo period. Merchants use the fights as a means to resolve disputes with each other.

Seiji Kishi (Naruto Shippūden) is composing the music.

Dragon Pilot (Gifu Broadcasting. The show is already streaming on Netflix in Japan.

In the show's story, straightforward and innocent Hisone Amakasu is a Self-Defense Force rookie stationed at the Air Self-Defense Force's Gifu Base. She struggles with the fact that she sometimes hurts people unintentionally by her innocent words and decides to the Air Self-Defence Force, hoping to maintain a certain distance from people. This decision leads her to a fateful encounter that profoundly changes her life. Hisone meets the "OTF" (Organic Transformed Flyer) dragon hidden in the base, and it chooses Hisone as its pilot. When it soars into the sky with Hisone, her fate as a dragon pilot is decided. It is said that dragons have a key to the future of the world...

anohana) is writing the anime. Higuchi noted that he, BONES, and Okada created the original story concept together.

slated for 12 episodes.

Thomas is directing and serving as executive producer for the series. He is also writing the scripts along with Matt Wayne is serving as story editor.

Thomas previously Ping Pong) was on board as an animator.

Thomas (Children of Ether, The Boondocks) published the first issue of his original Cannon Busters comic in 2005 with Devil's Due Publishing.

season of the series was slated for summer.

The first four-episode season premiered worldwide on Netflix in July 2017. told media news website Digital Spy that a third season is in the works.

Producer Konami's Castlevania game series. In particular, the story is based on the 1989 NES/Famicom game Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse. The game is set in 1476, and Dracula has Europe under his grip. Trevor Belmont journeys in an attempt to defeat Dracula, and enlists the sorceress Sypha Belnades, the pirate Grant Danasty, and Dracula's own half-vampire son, Alucard.

Update: Kengan Ashura will premiere on Netflix in 2019, not later this year as previously reported.

Sources: Netflix's Anime Expo (Zac Bertschy), Netflix Press release