All hands on deck and prepare for excitement!
Earlier today, the Space Battleship 2202: Warriors of Love anime film franchise’s official website updated with new details for upcoming fifth film Rengoku-hen (Purgatory Chapter). Two trailers, plus three cast members were revealed.
We break the details down below.
Trailers
The first promo, a minute-long trailer focuses on the film’s action scenes, as character dialogue provides the main story beats.
The second video, a 30-second teaser, features closing theme song Yōranka by Shino Arima and MayTree as a background track.
Cast
The film will add the following:
- Mina Ichinose: Tomoyo Kurosawa
- Saki Tōdō: Ayahi Takagaki
- Shuntarō Yasuda: Isao Sasaki
Visuals for the new characters were also revealed, which you can check out below:
The film will open on May 25 at select theaters across Japan.
Much like the previous runs, folks who attend the screenings will be able to purchase a special edition Blu-Ray of the film.
The fourth film, Space Battleship Yamato 2202: Warriors of Love: Tenmei-hen opened in Japanese theaters on January 27. Seven films are currently planned in the saga, which tells the tale of the Yamato after its safe arrival at Iscandar.
Nobuyoshi Habara (D.N.Angel, Fafner) is directing the project at Xebec, with Nobuteru Yuki (Vision of Escaflowne, Orange) providing character designs. Harutoshi Fukui (Mobile Suit Gundam UC) is in charge of series composition for the movies.
Akira Miyagawa is scoring the soundtracks for the films.
The confirmed voice cast includes:
- Susumu Kodai: Daisuke Ono
- Yuki Mori: Houko Kuwashima
- Daisuke Shima: Kenichi Suzumura
- Kaoru Niimi: Aya Hisakawa
- Mikage Kiryu: Eriko Nakamura
- Zwordar: Hideaki Tezuka
- Hajime Saito: Hiroki Touchi
- Klaus Keyman: Hiroshi Kamiya
- Susumu Yamazaki: Hiroshi Tsuchida
- Shirō Sanada: Houchu Ohtsuka
- Yasuo Nanbu: Kenji Akabane
- Isami Enomoto: Kenjiro Tsuda
- Lauren Barel: Masaki Terasoma
- Osamu Yamanami: Masashi Ebara
- Yoshikazu Aihara: Masato Kokubun
- Hikozaemon Tokugawa: Mugihito
- Akira Yamamoto: Rie Tanaka
- Teresa: Sayaka Kanda
- Dr. Sakezō Sado: Shigeru Chiba
- Kotetsu Serizawa: Tesshō Genda
- Heikuro Todo: Toshihiko Kojima
- Ryu Hijikata: Unshō Ishizuka
- Sifar Sabera: Yuko Kaida
- Kenjiro Ota: Yuuki Chiba
- Yuria Misaki: Aya Uchida
- Shiori Nagakura: Kazusa Amagai
- Jiro Tsurumi: Keisuke Koumoto
- Miki Saijo: Satomi Moriya
- Juzo Okita: Takayuki Sugo
- Earth Federation President: Yuji Mikimoto
Sources: Ota-suke, Comic Natalie