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GoHands & Frontier Works Collaborate on “W’z” Anime Project for 2019


So, there’s much ado about W’z today…

Earlier today, an official website opened its doors to announce a new anime co-production between GoHands and Frontier Works. The project, titled W’z, will be primarily aimed toward women.

A key visual, plus the core cast and composers were unveiled for the project. We break the details down below.

Logo

Key Visual

The image features four core characters in the foreground, in front of headshots for two unnamed characters. Lead character Yukiya is scratching on a DJ turntable front and center.

Cast

Katsumi Fukuhara star as Yukiya, a 14-year-old high school student who has a passion for DJing. A visual for the character was also unveiled, which you can check out below.

Staff

GOON TRAX will produce the title’s music, with DJ Rena handling video and musical production cooperation. W’z will also feature tracks from 27 artists:

  • A June & J Beat X OCTOBER
  • acro jazz laboratories
  • Afro Soma
  • Asuka Mochizuki
  • Avens
  • CM Smooth
  • DJ Chika a.K.a. INHERIT
  • DJ Juice
  • DJ Ryow a.K.a. Smooth Current
  • GEMINI
  • Hiroki Mizukami
  • Incise
  • Jay Lee
  • Kenichiro Nishihara
  • Kondor
  • Leehahn
  • LEMS
  • Marcus D
  • MIC B A.K.A. 73 PIKE SET
  • Nomak
  • Robert de Boron
  • Ryosuke Kojima
  • re:plus
  • Sam Ock
  • SoulChef
  • Still Caravan
  • 216Project

Sources: Animate Times, Otakomu

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