{"id":57611,"date":"2023-03-18T13:02:37","date_gmt":"2023-03-18T20:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/?p=57611"},"modified":"2023-03-19T11:25:01","modified_gmt":"2023-03-19T18:25:01","slug":"uniteup-previews-legit-idol-unit-in-new-pv-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2023\/03\/18\/uniteup-previews-legit-idol-unit-in-new-pv-trailer\/","title":{"rendered":"UniteUp! Previews LEGIT Idol Unit in New PV Trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2023\/02\/25\/uniteup-previews-anela-musical-unit-in-new-pv-trailer\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">new PV trailer<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> has been released for the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2022\/11\/05\/uniteup-male-idol-animes-1st-trailer-and-january-7-premiere-revealed\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><em>UniteUp!<\/em> anime TV series<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which previews the 3-member idol unit LEGIT. A recap episode 8.5 will air on March 18, 2023. The anime series first premiered on January 7, 2023.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The trailer highlights the members of the unit LEGIT during their performances and daily interactions. It also features their past history with each other. LEGIT consists of <strong>Magura Sukegawa<\/strong> as Daiki Takao<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><b>Shinnosuke Morikage<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as Eishirou Nijou, and <\/span><b>Ryuuichirou Sakata<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as Fuuga Tougou.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"TV\u30a2\u30cb\u30e1\u300eUniteUp!\u300f\u30e6\u30cb\u30c3\u30c8PV\uff1aLEGIT\u7de8\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cK_jC4H34XU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The anime features an ensemble voice cast from various male idol units. The main voice cast for the Protostar unit includes <\/span><b>Kikunosuke Toya<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as Akira Kiyose, <\/span><b>Ryoutarou Yamaguchi<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as Banri Naoe, and <\/span><b>Amon Hirai<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as Chihiro Isuzugawa.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">UniteUp!<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is directed by <\/span><b>Shinichirou Ushijima<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I Want To Eat Your Pancreas<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">) with <\/span><b>Rino Yamazaki<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Akebi\u2019s Sailor Uniform<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">) as series screenwriter and <\/span><b>Majiro<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Macross Delta<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> co-character designer) as character designer. <\/span><b>CloverWorks<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is in charge of the animation production for the series.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Other staff members include <\/span><b>Hiromi Ishigami<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal The Movie<\/span><\/i> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Part 2<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> action animation director) as action director, <\/span><b>Masakazu Miyake<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">) as art director, <\/span><b>Kazuko Nakashima<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wonder Egg Priority<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">) as color designer, <\/span><b>Yukiko Nagase<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Idolmaster SideM<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">) as photography director, and <\/span><b>Yuuki Hayashi <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Arknights -Prelude to Dawn-<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">) as music composer.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sony Music Entertainment Japan first announced the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2022\/09\/24\/sony-music-groups-uniteup-male-idol-project-receives-tv-anime-in-january-2023\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">production of an anime series for its mixed-media project<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> at Aniplex Online Fest 2022. The \u201cnext dimensional idol project\u201d was initially launched in December 2021, which featured various artists with \u201chidden talents.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_56179\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56179\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"56179\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2023\/02\/25\/uniteup-previews-anela-musical-unit-in-new-pv-trailer\/uniteup-anime-project-key-visual\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/uniteup-anime-project-key-visual.jpg?fit=600%2C900&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"600,900\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"uniteup anime project key visual\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;\u00a9 Project UniteUp!&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/uniteup-anime-project-key-visual.jpg?fit=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/uniteup-anime-project-key-visual.jpg?fit=600%2C900&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-56179\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/uniteup-anime-project-key-visual.jpg?resize=350%2C525&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"uniteup mixed media anime feature image\" width=\"350\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/uniteup-anime-project-key-visual.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/uniteup-anime-project-key-visual.jpg?resize=280%2C420&amp;ssl=1 280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/uniteup-anime-project-key-visual.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-56179\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">\u00a9 Project UniteUp!<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;font-size: 12pt;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Aniplex of America licensed\u00a0<em>UniteUp!<\/em>\u00a0in North America and describes the story as:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Akira Kiyose, a high schooler who loves to sing, gets recruited by a talent agency called sMiLea Production. Akira learns that the legendary idols \u201cAnela\u201d, who shocked the world with their sudden retirement, are behind the agency developing talent. Together with Banri Naoe and Chihiro Isuzugawa, also recruited by the agency, they form an idol group as they chase their dream towards super stardom alongside other idol groups \u201cLEGIT\u201d and \u201cJAXX\/JAXX\u201d.<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/project_uniteup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">UniteUp! Official Anime Twitter<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new PV trailer has been released for the UniteUp! anime TV series, which previews the 3-member idol unit LEGIT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":57612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[79,626,5519,5430],"class_list":["post-57611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anime","tag-aniplex-of-america","tag-cloverworks","tag-sony-music-entertainment-japan","tag-uniteup"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/uniteup-legit-feature-image.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8n4QV-eZd","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57611"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57611"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57650,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57611\/revisions\/57650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}