To Your Eternity: Hikaru Utada is the singer of theme song ‘Pink Blood’

Popular Japanese-American Hikaru Utada is now responsible for the song “Pink Blood”, which will be the theme song of the upcoming anime “To Your Eternity”. The announcement was made on the official website for the anime.

This is the first time Utada has worked on the theme song for a TV anime series. She is known for her work for the “Kingdom Hearts” video game franchise, for songs like “Simple and Clean,” “Automatic,” and “Don’t Think Twice.”

“To Your Eternity” will start broadcasting on NHK E-Tele on April 12.  The latest PV of “To Your Eternity” will be released soon, on both the official program website and on “NHK Anime World”.

TV Anime "To Your Eternity" Key Visual (c) Yoshitoki Oima ・ Kodansha / NHK ・ NEP
Key visual for the anime.

Staff:

Director: Masahiko Murata
Series composition: Shinzo Fujita
Character design: Koji Yabuno
Music: Ryu Kawasaki
Sound director: Takeshi Takadera
Animation production: Brain’s Base
Production: NHK Enterprises
Production / Writing: NHK

Cast:

Fushi: Reiji Kawashima

March: Rie Hikisaka

Parona: Aya Uchida

Piolan: Rikako Aikawa

Hayase: Mitsuki Saiga

Observer: Kenjiro Tsuda

Synopsis:

A new manga from the creator of the acclaimed A Silent Voice, featuring intimate, emotional drama and an epic story spanning time and space…
A lonely boy wandering the Arctic regions of North America meets a wolf, and the two become fast friends, depending on each other to survive the harsh environment. But the boy has a history, and the wolf is more than meets the eye as well… To Your Eternity is a totally unique and moving manga about death, life, reincarnation, and the nature of love.

“To Your Eternity”—or “Fumetsu no Anata e”—is Yoshitoki Ōima’s manga. It was scheduled for an anime with an October 2020 release, but was inevitably delayed due to COVID-19.

Crunchyroll has the English releases of the 2016 manga, and will be airing all 20 episodes of the anime as well.

TV anime "To Your Eternity" logo (c) Yoshitoki Oima ・ Kodansha / NHK ・ NEP