'Mashin Souzouden Wataru' Reveals Production Staff, Main Cast, First Promo, Winter 2025 Premiere

by DatRandomDude
Aug 28, 9:02 PM | 7 Comments

The official website for the Mashin Souzouden Wataru original television anime series revealed the production staff, main cast, new visual (pictured), and a promotional video on Thursday. The anime is scheduled to premiere in January 2025 TV Tokyo's six stations.

Cast
Wataru Hoshibe: Mutsumi Tamura (Darling in the FranXX)
Kakeru Amabe: Atsumi Tanezaki (Spy x Family)
Offline: Katsuyuki Konishi (Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann)
Maro: Megu Umezawa (Cinderella Girls Gekijou: Extra Stage)
Ryunryun: Rie Kugimiya (Fairy Tail)
Ryuujinmaru: Tomokazu Sugita (Gintama)

Staff
Director: Yumi Kamakura (Working!!!)
Series Composition: Youichi Katou (Scarlet Nexus)
Character Design: Mayuko Nakano (Kyuuketsuki Sugu Shinu), Yoshinori Yumoto (Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou)
Demon Design: Kyouryuu Kuramochi (Gundam Breaker: Battlogue mechanical design), Studio GS
World Design: Yuuri
Art Director: Norifumi Nakamura (Koukyuu no Karasu), Masami Hayashi (Uramichi Oniisan)
Color Design: Akiko Shibata (Code Geass: Fukkatsu no Lelouch)
CG Director: Shinpei Nagashima (Battle Spirits: Burning Soul)
Director of Photography: Tsunetaka Ema (Made in Abyss)
Editing: Naoki Watanabe (Temple)
Music: Ryuuichi Takada (Shangri-La Frontier), Keiichi Hirokawa (Liar Liar), Oliver Good (Aharen-san wa Hakarenai), Keita Inoue (Bokura no Ame-iro Protocol)
Sound Director: Sadayoshi Fujino (Kidou Senshi Gundam: The Origin)
Studio: Bandai Namco Pictures
Producers: Bandai Namco Filmworks, TV Tokyo

The 45-episode first season produced by animation studio Sunrise aired from April 1988 to March 1989. The second season aired in 46 episodes from March 1990 to March 1991, and a 51-episode remake ran from October 1997 to September 1998.

A nine-episode original net anime streamed on Bandai Spirits' official YouTube channel between April and November 2020. A compilation movie of the net anime subtitled Saikai screened in Japan in January 2022.

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Official site: https://wataru-anime.net/

Source: Comic Natalie

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DatRandomDude said:
they got acquired by Bandai

Sunrise got acquired by Bandai in the 90s, Victory Gundam was already made under Bandai ownership.

deg said:
arent sunrise renamed to bandai namco pictures?

Sunrise's official name is Bandai Namco Filmworks now, but they still use Sunrise as a brand name for their projects, kinda like how Type Moon is a brand name and the company is actually named Notes.

Aug 29, 7:06 PM by Ionliosite2

@DatRandomDude i see gonna try to remember that

Aug 29, 7:37 AM by deg

@deg well they got acquired by Bandai but they didn't change their name, the Sunrise team still makes anime with the Sunrise name like all the recent Gundam, Love Live, and Code Geass anime. They rarely use them for anything else tho these days.

Aug 29, 7:35 AM by DatRandomDude

@DatRandomDude arent sunrise renamed to bandai namco pictures? or i got wrong news about that

Aug 29, 7:25 AM by deg

@deg tbf it's Bandai Namco Pictures animating this one, not Sunrise

Aug 29, 7:24 AM by DatRandomDude

even sunrise gone full 3dcg mecha now

Sunrise Producer: 'We're the Only Studio That Can Make Hand-Drawn Robot Anime' https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2018-12-22/sunrise-producer-were-the-only-studio-that-can-make-hand-drawn-robot-anime/.141134

times change

Aug 29, 7:17 AM by deg

Oh, I really enjoyed Mashin Eiyuuden Wataru. Looking forward to this.

Aug 29, 7:11 AM by Kattvalp