Ex-Arm Anime Gets New Promo Video, Premiere Date

The upcoming 3DCG sci-fi anime EX-ARM received a new PV. It was also revealed that the anime will premiere on January 10, 2021. 

Crunchyroll previously released a poorly-received trailer for EX-ARM in November. The anime is one of the streaming platform’s Crunchyroll Original titles. 

Visual Flight is in charge of the show’s animation production. The staff includes Yoshikatsu Kimura as director, Tommy Morton as scriptwriter, Soki Kimura as music composer, and Takahito Ouchi as action director. 

The cast includes Souma Saitou (Haikyuu!!: To the Top, SSSS.Gridman) as Akira Natsume, Kako Komatsumi (Edens Zero, Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon) as Minami Uezono, Akari Kitou (Adachi and Shimamura, TONIKAWA: Over The Moon For You) as Arma, Sumire Uesaka (TONIKAWA: Over The Moon For You, Why the Hell are You Here, Teacher!?) as Chikage Rokuouin, Yui Ishikawa (Attack on Titan, Violet Evergarden) as Alisa Himegami, and Taku Yashiro (Fire Force) as Kimura.

Other cast members include Shoumaru Souza as Kondou, Yuu Kobayashi (Attack on Titan) as Souma, Miyu Tomita (Talentless Nana, Kaguya-sama: Love is War Season 2) as Yggdrasil, Satomi Arai (Re:Zero, A Certain Scientific Railgun) as Kaori Munakata, Kouji Yusa (Talentless Nana) as Shuuichi Natsume, Takaya Kuroda (Jujutsu Kaisen) as Throughhand, and Azumi Waki (I’m Standing on a Million Lives) as Elmira. 

EX-ARM is based on a manga of the same name. The EX-ARM manga is a remake of Komi’s EX-VITA manga, and it received a sequel manga called EX-ARM EXA in 2019. The series also includes a spin-off novel called EX-ARM the Novel Deus Ex Machina by Atarou Kumo, which was adapted by Komi into the manga EX-ARM Another Code. 

Crunchyroll describes the anime as:

On the edge of death, an officer & his android partner are forced to activate a top-secret weapon…The EX-ARM No.00!

Update: Added EX-ARM anime synopsis.

Source: Shueisha Comics YouTube Channel