Anime Train to the End of the World Releases Opening & Ending Animation!

The brand new original anime series Train to the End of the World has released the opening and ending animation after its broadcast release on April 1st! The first Episode is now available to stream on Crunchyroll.

Train to the End of the World Non-Credit Opening Animation -

GA-TAN GO-TON by Rei Nakashima

Set to Rei Nakashima‘s laidback “GA-TAN GO-TON,” the opening animation evokes various moods with its color and compositing, with nostalgia, melancholy, eeriness and surrealism all in the mix. The sequence is storyboarded by Maxilla’s Kazuya Futagoishi (Paradox Live The Animation opening director et al.), and unit directed by Futagoishi with fellow Maxilla colleague Naoya Murakawa (Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear Punch! Episode 7 and 11 Director).

The series also released its non-credited ending animation, which is storyboarded and directed by the series’ Director Tsutomu Mizushima. The ending song is “Eureka” by Rokudenashi.

Train to the End of the World Non-Credit Ending Animation -

Eureka by Rokudenashi

Prior to the second episode's release on April 8th, the series has released its summary and preview stills:

Episode 2 - "Speculation, probably, it seems" / 第2話「推測、だろう、思われる」

The train carrying Shizuru and the others has left the station. While looking out of the train window at the towns and rails connecting them, lies a the scenery of a world that has completely changed. They continue towards Ikebukuro, where they expect to find Yoka, but then, from far away, a mysterious figure appears!?

The anime's plot is described as:

In a seemingly ordinary rural town, something strange is happening to the residents. But Shizuru Chikura is more concerned for her missing friend. Determined to find her, Shizuru and three other girls board an abandoned train and travel to the outside world, unsure if they’ll make it back alive. As they venture toward the unknown, the question looms: What awaits them at the final stop?

Cast

• Chika Anzai as "Shizuru Chikura"

• Azumi Waki as "Hoshi Nadeshiko"

• Erisa Kuon as "Reimi Kuga"

• Hina Kino as "Akira Shinonome"

• Nao Toyama as "Yoka Nakatomi"

• Kazuyuki Okitsu as "Zenjiro"

Staff

• Series composer: Michiko Yokote (Call of the Night)

• Character designer: Asako Nishida (Land of the Lustrous)

• Original character designer: namo

• Art director: Masanobu Nomura (Cyberpunk Edgerunners)

• Art director: Yumi Horikoshi (86 Eighty-Six)

• Color designer: Tomoko Koyama (Beast Tamer)

• Compositing director: Jiro Tazawa (Lupin the 3rd Prison of the Past)

• Music composer: Miho Tsujibayashi (Restaurant to Another World co-composer)

• Animation production: EMT Squared

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