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Shinkalion Anime Film's 1st 3 Minutes Streamed With Hatsune Miku vs. Godzilla Battle
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Yahoo! Movies Japan began streaming the first three minutes of Gekijō-ban toy line, on Friday. The video previews a battle between the character Hatsune Miku and Godzilla. Shinkalion's Hatsune Miku character is based on the popular Vocaloid character, but with a name written with different characters in Japanese.
The Hatsune Miku character first appeared in the anime in the show's 15th episode in 2018, while Godzilla is a new collaboration. The show has previously Neon Genesis Evangelion anime.
The film ranked at #8 in its opening weekend.
The film centers around ALFA-X, JR East Japan's experimental prototype for the next generation of shinkansen bullet trains.
Kōtarō Yoshida play the antagonists Nahane and Ohanef, respectively.
SMDE produced the CG animation. BOYS AND MEN performed the film's theme song "Gattan Gotton Go!"
In the television anime's story, Hayato Hayasugi (his last name is a pun on the words for "too fast") and other children serve as conductors to pilot the Shinkalion. The children must work together with the adults of the "Shinkansen Ultra Evolution Institute" (SUEI) to defeat a monster that looks like a jet black bullet train.
The Shinkalion robots are various models of real-life Japanese bullet trains (shinkansen) that transform into robots to fight an unknown evil to protect the safety and peace of Japan.
The anime premiered in January 2018, and ended in June last year.
Sources: Yahoo! Movies Japan, Comic Natalie
