Godzilla Singular Point is a new anime series that will be releasing in April 2021. Produced by Bones (My Hero Academia) and Orange (Beastars) and directed by Atsushi Takahashi (Blue Exorcist: The Movie, Doraemon the Movie 2017: Great Adventure in the Antarctic Kachi Kochi), it has been licensed by Netflix and will air in Tokyo MX. The teaser, uploaded on several of Netflix’s YouTube channels, was posted more than a month ago:
And on Wednesday, the official website for the series has revealed all the cast members and the character visuals:
Yume Miyamoto as Mei Kamino
Shōya Ishige as Yun Arikawa
Tarō Kikuchi as Babel Katō
Wataru Katagi as renowned scientist Gorō Ōtaki
Ayako Takeuchi as Satomi Kanahara
Misaki Kuno as artificial intelligence Pero 2
Rie Kugimiya as Jung, another AI
Yōhei Azakami as bureaucrat Shunya Satō
Jin Urayama as Tsunemoto Yamamoto
Kotori Koiwai as Yukie Kanoko
Kenichi Suzumura as journalist Takehiro Kai
Kaho Kouda as Keiei Lee
Ryotaru Okiayu as Bayler ‘BB’ Barn
Runa Onodera as Rina Barn
Tomoyuki Shimura as Yoshiyasu Matsubara
Hiromichi Tezuka as Makita K. Nakagawa
Masako Isobe as Tilda Mira
Kenta Miyake as Michael Steven
Here’s how Netflix describes the show:
“Next year, the king returns. Godzilla: Singular Point is an original anime series featuring character designs by Blue Exorcist’s Kazue Kato and a new Godzilla design from legendary Ghibli animator Eiji Yamamori.” which will centre on “the young geniuses Mei Kamino, a female researcher, and Yun Arikawa, a male engineer, as they take on an unprecedented threat with their companions.” Yamamori has previously worked on Princess Mononoke, The Wind Rises, and Spirited Away as the key animator.
There have already been successful Godzilla anime films: Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters, Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle and Godzilla: The Planet Eater, which were released by Netflix in 2017-2018.
