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Where Does the Doomsday Train Go? Anime Streams Character Video for Reimi Kuga
posted on by Joanna Cayanan
Erisa Kuon voices the character.
The anime's story is set in a town in a not-so-ordinary countryside, where a big and strange occurrence is happening to its residents. But a young girl named Shizuru Chikura has a strong desire to see her lost friend again. Shizuru and three other girls board an abandoned train, and they set out to the outside world, where survival is not certain. What awaits them at the last stop of the "Doomsday Train?"
The anime stars:
- Azumi Waki as Nadeshiko Hoshi, nicknamed Nadeko
- Erisa Kuon as Reimi Kuga
- Hina Kino as Akira Shinonome
- Chika Anzai as Shizuru Chikura
Tsutomu Mizushima (Girls und Panzer, Shirobako) is directing the anime at namo's original designs, and serving as chief animation director.
The other staff include:
- Chief Producer: Fumihiko Suganuma
- Art Director: Masanobu Nomura
- Color Design: Tomoko Koyama
- Director of Photography: Jiro Tazawa
- Editing: Masahiro Gotō
- Sound Effects: Yasumasa Koyama
- Recording Coordination: Masayuki Yamaguchi (name romanization not confirmed)
- Sound Director: Tsutomu Mizushima
- Music: Miho Tsujibayashi
- Music Production: Flying Dog
Rei Nakashima performs the opening theme song "GA-TAN GO-TON."
Manga artist Torimura will start serializing a manga adaptation, told from Akira's perspective, on the free manga website KadoComi on March 25.
Kadokawa announced the anime in commemoration of Railway Day, the 150th anniversary of Japan's first railway, in October 2022.
Source: Press release
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