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Trigger, Tsuburaya's SSSS.Gridman Anime Reveals New Visual, Additional Cast
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The staff of Gridman.
The new cast includes:
Katsuyuki Konishi as Max
Aoi Yūki as Borar
Masaya Matsukaze as Vitt
Kenichi Suzumura as Mysterious Boy
Mayumi Shintani as Rikka Mama
Akari Kitō as Hassu
Suzuko Mimori as Namiko
The newly announced staff are kaijū (monster) designers Ichirō Itano (Ultraman Nexus CG motion director). The staff unveiled three kaijū designs.
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Funimation dub.
SSSS.Gridman will hosted the anime's world premiere on Friday evening.
The anime stars:
- Yūya Hirose as Yūta Hibiki
- Hikaru Midorikawa as Gridman
- Sōma Saitō as Shō Utsumi
- Yume Miyamoto as Rikka Takarada
- Reina Ueda as Akane Shinjō
- Tetsu Inada as Alexis Kerib
Pony Canyon is producing the music.
Eiko Morikawa is returning from the original Denkō Chōjin Gridman live-action show to handle the sound effects.
perform the anime's ending theme song "youthful beautiful."
At last year's Anime Expo in July, Trigger revealed the new anime's title as Superhuman Samurai Syber Squad Gridman, and emphasized that the anime will have an original story not directly related to the earlier live-action series.
The original live-action Denkō Chōjin Gridman debuted in 1993, 12 years after Tsuburaya Productions' last major live-action tokusatsu television series, Ultraman 1980. The story is set in the "Computer World" where war is waging in computers. Three middle-school boys the hero Gridman in his battles through their personal computers.
Sources: SSSS.Gridman anime's Twitter
