Netflix has released another visual for the upcoming Gamera -Rebirth- anime, this time depicting the silhouette of the knife-headed Guiron.
Gamera -Rebirth- is due to be released sometime this year and will have a six-episode length. The show is set in the summer of 1989 and will follow three elementary sixth-graders and the son of a USFJ member as Tokyo becomes a battleground between Gamera and five kaiju, including Gyaos, Jiger, and Zigra.
The main cast includes Hisako Kanemoto as Boko, Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Joe, Aki Toyosaki as Junichi, and Subaru Kimura as Brody. Meanwhile, the staff includes:
• Director: Hiroyuki Seshita (Knights of Sidonia)
• Series composers: Kenta Ihara (Handyman Saitou in Another World), Hiroshi Seko (Summer Time Rendering), and Seshita
• Assistant director: Keisuke Ide (Levius) director
• Character designer: Atsushi Tamura (Weathering With You co-character designer)
• Animation director: Kouji (Knights of Sidonia)
• Kaiju designer: Kan Takahama
• Mechanical designer: Takehiko Hoashi (Levius)
•Animation production company: ENGI
Gamera debuted in the 1965 tokusatsu film Gamera the Giant Monster. The film was produced by Daiei, which fell under the Kadokawa Group’s management in 2002. Following a name change and “renewal” in 2004 and a 2011 merger with Kadokawa Shoten, Daiei split off from Kadokawa Shoten in 2013 and became Kadokawa Daiei Studio.
ENGI was co-founded by KADOKAWA, with KADOKAWA being the main shareholder.
Source: @NetflixAnime
