TV Anime 'Lost Song' Reveals Additional Staff and Cast Members

by tsubasalover
Sep 23, 2017 7:39 AM | 25 Comments

The official website for the upcoming Lost Song original TV anime has been revamped and revealed additional staff and cast members, a new preview, and two new key visuals. The opening theme song "Utaeba Soko ni Kimi ga Iru kara" will be performed by Konomi Suzuki, who will also voice one of the heroines, Rin. The anime is slated to premiere in 2018, and will debut on Netflix before the TV broadcast. An event for the series held on Saturday also announced the new information.

Cast
Al: Misaki Kuno (Kiznaiver)
Pony Goodlight: Chiaki Takahashi (Bikini Warriors)
Henry Leobert: Seiichirou Yamashita (Orange)
Allu Looks: Asami Seto (Chihayafuru)
Monika Looks: Yuu Serizawa (Mushibugyou)
Corte/Mel: Ai Kayano (3-gatsu no Lion)
Bazra Beamols: Tsuyoshi Koyama (Zero kara Hajimeru Mahou no Sho)
Lood Bernstein IV: Yuto Suzuki (Marginal#4: Kiss kara Tsukuru Big Bang)
Doctor Weisen: Mitsuru Ogata (Flying Witch)
Talgia Horkrei: Hiroshi Ito (Tales of Zestiria the X 2nd Season)

Staff
Animation Facilitator: Chikara Sakurai (Majimoji Rurumo director)
Main Character Design: Shizue Kaneko (Kanojo ga Flag wo Oraretara)
Sub Character Design: Shuuichi Hara (Heart no Kuni no Alice: Wonderful Wonder World), Toshiyuki Fujisawa (Tenshi no 3P animation director)
Art Design: Barnstorm Design Laboratory
Art Director: Kinichi Ookubo (Tiger & Bunny)
Color Setting: Mineyo Oonishi (Rokudenashi Majutsu Koushi to Akashic Records)
Director of Photography: Mika Yamamoto (Saenai Kanojo no Sodatekata ♭)

PV

Source: Famitsu

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New key visual
https://natalie.mu/comic/news/282694

May 17, 2018 8:03 PM by tsubasalover

ED: "TEARS ECHO" by Finis (CV: Yukari Tamura), Coupling song "Shuumetsu no Uta (終滅の歌)"
https://www.animatetimes.com/news/details.php?id=1526633261

The CD that includes both OP & ED will be release on May 23, 2018
http://moca-news.net/article/20180225/2018022513240a_/01/
https://twitter.com/lostsonganime/status/967611127545802753

Also, time for TV broadcast announced 25:30 (which means April 8 1:30 a.m.)
https://twitter.com/lostsonganime/status/967610693649235968

OP Will Also Release a Separate Single CD on May 23, 2018 (same day as the theme song CD)
https://www.animatetimes.com/news/details.php?id=1519785925

Feb 24, 2018 8:53 PM by tsubasalover

Oh no the Cgi is ugly af.

Dunno if I should give it a chance

Feb 2, 2018 1:49 AM by S-quare22

New key visual, PV, March 31 via Netflix in Japan and Summer worldwide and April 7 on TV (Tokyo MX, TV Aichi, BS Fuji, Sun TV, KBS Kyoto). New CM will be aired on February 3.
http://moca-news.net/article/20180202/2018020218000a_/01/

Feb 2, 2018 1:15 AM by tsubasalover

Net Radio via Hibiki will start on December 25, 2017. Konomi Suzuki and Misaki Kuno will host it.
https://hibiki-radio.jp/description/lostsong/detail

Dec 22, 2017 2:45 AM by tsubasalover

The CGI doesn't look bad but I would say its decent enough to work on. Will look into this for sure still.

Oct 17, 2017 5:11 PM by removed-user

Hmm... I can’t say I’m that interested in this now.

When they first announced the project, I didn’t know what to expect, but it looked promising. After they released the synopsis, I was a bit disappointed, but hey, maybe I should wait for a PV and see...

Sadly, besides some of the backgrounds, nothing else from this first PV really grabbed my attention. It was pretty meh to be honest... The anime character designs looked okay-ish and the song was just fine.

Now, regarding the use/mix of 2D and 3D, I don’t care as long as it isn’t too jarring... From what I saw in the PV, it looks decent enough, but nothing outstanding. It looks like your typical 3D mostly used for idol series (like some already said), maybe a tad better, but who knows at this point really...

I will give the series a try whenever it airs... most likely Winter 2017.

Sep 24, 2017 10:08 PM by zero-r

I'm honestly waiting for this because Konomi Suzuki is one of my favorite anisong singer.

Sep 24, 2017 8:56 PM by lazy_Modifier

My guess is that this is the fantasy version of our idol animes – the musical segments are animated in CGI, which is actually much, much better than what we have in even Love Live! Sunshine!! – and then everything else is traditionally animated. Although the transitions do look a bit jarring (this is where I think LLSS has smoother transitions simply because the CGI models do look very, very similar to their traditionally-animated counterparts), on the whole it's not actually that bad.

Now what I do want to know is the synopsis/basic premise for this show, since that will determine whether I watch this or not in the end.

Edit: Just found the anime's page with the synopsis. So this is a musical anime after all. In that case, why is everyone crying about CGI suddenly; this is typical of the idol anime genre (well, except for The Idolm@ster).

Sep 24, 2017 12:25 PM by aryandil

Oh c'mon not CGI...
Will be watching it but damn...

Sep 23, 2017 11:27 PM by Xenocrisi

etotama approach in movie budget? sign me the fuck up... fuck the haters... CGI can be LIT AF....

Sep 23, 2017 8:23 PM by Kuma

OverClock said:

Calal-Chan said:
You know what I noticed. The people that tend to complain about CGI tend to be close-minded. Especially when the CGI that we saw was pretty decent. Good framerate good models and nice camera angles. Sure it is a bit odd to go back and forth from 2D and 3D but it is in no way immediately bad. In fact, it looks straight up out of a video game's pre-rendered video game cutscene. Looking forward to it. Glad to see Netflix is supposed to have it on earlier than it will air weekly.

Also, I would like to point out the little 2D animation we actually got in this trailer had little to no movement and was very static. The CGI will be used to give more movement and I think making it full CGI like @TheServant said would have been a good idea.

well if they keep the direction of the pv then we can all agree it will be the new hand shakers

I heavily disagree. Hand Shakers problem is that it is too busy and has way too much going on. Not to mention it is extremely fetishy and pandering. The CGI used here was actually fairly good. This is leagues better than hand shakers horrid camera movement, horrible saturation, and unrealistic boob physics.

This

And this

Are clearly completely different. Ah good, apparently my gif for lost song expired or something. Too lazy to ever fix it. Just go look up in the video random people.

Sep 23, 2017 5:43 PM by Calal-Chan

well if they keep the direction of the pv then we can all agree it will be the new hand shakers

Sep 23, 2017 4:57 PM by anemonespotte

Ohhhhh. Hey, we finally got more info on it and even a PV. Looks pretty nice so far, imo. Well, I hope to the transition from 2D to 3D isn't as jarring as it appeared in the PV.

Other than that, I think I'm good. Looking forward to it and and an exactly air date. Wish they could've at least said early 2018 or late 2018.

Sep 23, 2017 12:05 PM by Olem

You know what I noticed. The people that tend to complain about CGI tend to be close-minded. Especially when the CGI that we saw was pretty decent. Good framerate good models and nice camera angles. Sure it is a bit odd to go back and forth from 2D and 3D but it is in no way immediately bad. In fact, it looks straight up out of a video game's pre-rendered video game cutscene. Looking forward to it. Glad to see Netflix is supposed to have it on earlier than it will air weekly.

Also, I would like to point out the little 2D animation we actually got in this trailer had little to no movement and was very static. The CGI will be used to give more movement and I think making it full CGI like @TheServant said would have been a good idea.

Sep 23, 2017 11:29 AM by Calal-Chan

Wait a minute. Some scenes will be fully CGI while other will be hand-drawn? That's . . . unique. I would've preferred all CGI all the time rather than this.

Hatsuyuki said:
Atrocious CGI, will skip.

Compared to other CGI anime TV series, this is not that bad. The implementation might be jarring, but the CGI itself is quite good.

Sep 23, 2017 9:56 AM by AServant

Ugh, Netflix, i'll pass on this.

Sep 23, 2017 8:54 AM by Swagernator

Hoping it would be a lot like shelter..

Pfft Nope

Sep 23, 2017 8:24 AM by -HippySnob-

Atrocious CGI, will skip.

Sep 23, 2017 8:06 AM by Hatsuyuki

It will also be available via Netflix earlier than the TV broadcast.

I'ma watch this on Netflix, go around the episode discussion weekly threads and spoil this shit to the dickfucks who decides to watch this show weekly (─‿‿─).

Anyways....the CGI doesn't even look that bad and I'm pretty sure it's going to be like Love Live where they'll only use CGI on the dancing scenes or whatever. The first half of the PV looks really good though so I'm going to give this series a try.

Sep 23, 2017 8:04 AM by jc9622

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