INDIA: Netflix India is ready to add a new anime to the watch list; Drifting Home and Cyberpunk: Edgerunners arrive at the streaming giant. Both anime features will debut in India, along with the worldwide release.
Drifting Home and Cyberpunk: Edgerunners debuting on Netflix
Drifting Home is a full-length anime film developed by Studio Colores. The anime film is coming to Netflix with a worldwide release on September 16. The streaming giant will also release the feature film in India on the same day as its global release.
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The cast of the upcoming anime film includes Daiki Yamashita as Yuzuru Tachibana, Ayumu Murase as Noppo, Kana Hanazawa as Shuri Ando, Inori Minase as Queen Hama, Nana Mizuki as Satoko Tonai, Asami Seto as Natsume Touchi, Mutsumi Tamura as Kosuke Kumagai, Bin Shimada. as Yasuji Kumagaya and Yumiko Kobayashi as Taishi Koiwai.
Hiroyasu Ishida directed Drifting Home and provided the story along with Hayashi Mori. Koji Yamamoto produced the film, and Umitaro Abe composed the music for the upcoming anime film.
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Drifting Home emerges as Studio Colorful’s first full-length anime film. In addition to the Netflix release, the anime film will also hit Japanese theaters on September 16. The synopsis for the film read: “It follows two childhood friends as they wade into a mysterious sea with an entire housing complex.”
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners is an upcoming anime series developed by Studio Trigger. The series is based on the Cyberpunk 2077 game by CD PROJEKT RED. Netflix India is also adding Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, although the anime’s release date has yet to be finalized.
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The series’ voice cast includes Aoi Yuki as Lucy, Kenichiro Ohashi, Kenjiro Tsuda as Ripperdoc, Kazuhiko Inoue as Faraday, Wataru Takagi as Pilar, Hiroki Touchi as Maine, Tomoyo Kurosawa as Rebecca, Takako Honda as Kiwi, Yurika Hino as Gloria and Michiko. Kaiden as Dorio
Hiroyuki Imaishi directed Cyberpunk: Edgerunners. The director is known for Gurren Lagann, Promare and Kill la Kill.
The synopsis for the anime read: ‘“A street kid trying to survive in a city of the future obsessed with technology and body modification. Having everything to lose, he chooses to stay alive by becoming Edgerunner, a mercenary outlaw aka Cyberpunk.”
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