Kaina of the Great Snow Sea's official website has finally dropped the second trailer for the anime. It has also revealed a key visual featuring Liliha, Kaina, and other pivotal characters of the anime.
The series will start broadcasting on January 11, 2023, on Fuji TV's "+Ultra" programming block and will also run on Kansai TV, Tokai TV, TV Nishinippon, BS Fuji, and Hokkaido Cultural Broadcasting Co., Ltd., in Japan.
As per the partnership with Fuji TV in September 2022, Crunchyroll became the only OTT platform to stream the anime in more than 200 territories worldwide. Follow along with this article as the trailer reveals more details about Kaina of the Great Snow Sea, including theme songs, voice cast, staff members, and more.
Yorushika and GReeeen will perform the opening and the ending theme for Kaina of the Great Snow Sea
Kaina of the Great Snow Sea’s opening theme song will be Telepath by Yorushika, one of the most well-acclaimed J-pop duos. GReeeen, a popular Japanese four-man rock band, will play the ending theme song, Juvenile. Prior to the broadcast and the global release, Kaina of the Great Snow Sea will receive a screening event on January 7, 2023, which will be held at TOHO Cinemas Shinjuku, Tokyo.
Yoshimasa Hosoya, Rie Takahashi, and Ayumu Murase, three of the main voice casts of the anime, will join the advanced screening event. Details regarding the tickets are yet to be revealed.
A brief synopsis of the anime by Crunchyroll states:
"In another world, an ever-growing Sea of Snow has engulfed the planet surface. The people struggle to survive living around the routes of a massive Orbital Tree, whose branches spread into the Celestial Membrane high above the ground. Change comes to this dying world after Kaina, a boy from the Celestial Membrane, encounters a girl from the surface called Ririha."
Here’s a list of the voice cast of the anime:
- Yoshimasa Hosoya as Kaina
- Rie Takahashi as Liliha
- Ayumu Murase as Yaona
- Maaya Sakamoto as Amerote
- Nobuyuki Hiyama as Handagil
- Kenyuu Horiuchi as Halesola
- Katsuyuki Onishi as Olinoga
- Tomokazu Sugita as Ngaboji
Staff:
- Original: Tsutomu Nihei ( Toa Heavy Industries)
- Director: Hiroaki Ando
- Series composition: Sadayuki Murai
- Screenplay: Sadayuki Murai, Tetsuya Yamada Kazuma
- CG Supervisor: Takuma Ishibashi, Masaki Take
- Art Director: Kimiko Kubo
- Color Design: Hirono Noji, Misaki Maze
- Studio: Polygon Pictures
Kaina of the Great Snow Sea is the 40th anniversary project of Polygon Pictures, the studio that animated the Ajin and Sedonia franchise.
Tsutomu Nihei, the renowned manga artist who illustrated BLAME! and Noise, has once again joined hands with Polygon Pictures for this upcoming new project.