Shuumatsu Train Doko e Iku? – Promotional video confirms anime premiere for 2024

During a live presentation held this Sunday (30), Kadokawa revealed more details about the original anime “Shuumatsu Train Doko e Iku?” (Where Does the Doomsday Train Go?), including more cast members, the main staff, new art, a promotional video, the story synopsis and the anime’s exhibition format, with its premiere scheduled for 2024.

Shuumatsu Train Doko e Iku? – Promotional video confirms anime premiere for 2024

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Voice actors

Azumi Waki as Nadeshiko Hoshi

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Erisa Kuon as Reimi Kuga

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Hina Kino as Akira Shinonome

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Chika Anzai will play the role of Shizuru Chikura

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Technical team

  • Anime director: Tsutomu Mizushima (Girls und Panzer, Shirobako)
  • Animation Studio: EMT Squared
  • Script supervisor: Michiko Yokote (Shirobako, Prison School, Cowboy Bebop, Rurouni Kenshin)
  • Character design: Asako Nishida (Land of the Lustrous, Love Live! School idol project)

Synopsis

The anime's story takes place in an unusual rural town, where a vast and strange event is befalling its inhabitants. However, a young girl named Shizuru Chikura has a strong desire to see her lost friend again. Shizuru and three other girls board an abandoned train and depart for the outside world, where survival is uncertain. What awaits them at the last stop of the "Doomsday Train?"

Kadokawa announced the anime in celebration of Railway Workers' Day, the 150th anniversary of Japan's first railway, which falls in October 2022.

Source: Official Twitter

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