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Netflix India Lists Drifting Home Anime Film, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Anime

Netflix is listing Studio Colorido's new full-length anime film Drifting Home (Ame o Tsugeru Hyōryū Danchi) for release in India on September 16. It is also listing Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, the upcoming anime series by Studio Trigger based on CD PROJEKT RED's Cyberpunk 2077 game, for release in India without a confirmed release date.

Drifting Home stars: (from left to right in image at right)

• Mutsumi Tamura as Kōsuke Kumagaya
• Asami Seto as Natsume Tonai
• Ayumu Murase as Noppo
• Daiki Yamashita as Yuzuru Tachibana
• Yumiko Kobayashi as Taishi Koiwai
• Inori Minase as Reina Haba
• Kana Hanazawa as Juri Andō

Bin Shimada plays Yasuji Kumagaya, Kōsuke's grandfather who treats Natsume like his own granddaughter. Nana Mizuki voices Satoko Tonai, Natsume's mother.

The film will debut on Netflix worldwide on September 16. The film will also screen in theaters in Japan starting on the same day. The film will be Studio Colorido's third full-length anime film.

Hiroyasu Ishida (Penguin Highway, Fumiko's Confession) is directing the anime, and he is also writing the script alongside Hayashi Mori (Cells at Work! Code Black, Layton Mystery Tanteisha: Katori no Nazotoki File) and Minaka Sakamoto (Babylon). Akihiro Nagae (Fastening Days) is designing the characters, and Fumi Katō (Penguin Highway animation director) is the assistant character designer. Umitarō Abe (Penguin Highway) is composing the music. Twin Engine is in charge of planning. Zutto Mayonaka de Iinoni. (ZUTOMAYO) will perform the anime's insert song "Natsugare" (Summer Slump), as well as the film's theme song "Kieteshimai Sō Desu" (It Seems I'm Fading Away).

The "adventure fantasy as summer ends" anime centers on Kōsuke and his childhood friend Natsume. The two recently entered sixth grade, and are entering an awkward phase in their friendship and have started avoiding one another. One day during summer vacation, they visit an apartment building that is about to be demolished, where the two of them used to live. Suddenly, Kōsuke, Natsume, and their friends get wrapped up in a strange phenomenon, and the whole building is surrounded by an ocean. The group of friends must try to find their way home from the drifting building.

The Cyberpunk: Edgerunners anime is scheduled to premiere on Netflix in September.

Hiroyuki Imaishi (Gurren Lagann, Kill la Kill, Promare) is directing the anime at Trigger, while Yoh Yoshinari (Little Witch Academia, BNA: Brand New Animal) is the character designer and animation director for the anime. The following are newly announced staff members: Hiromi Wakabayashi (Kill la Kill, Promare) as the creative director, Masahiko Otsuka (Star Wars: Visions ‘The Elder’) and Yoshiki Usa (SSSS.Gridman, SSSS.Dynazenon creative director) as the scriptwriters, Hiroyuki Kaneko as the assistant director, Yūto Kaneko and Yusuke Yoshigaki as assistant character designers, and Akira Yamaoka (Silent Hill games) as music composer.

Rock band Franz Ferdinand's song "This Fffire" will serve as the opening theme song.

Zach Aguilar will star in the English dub as David Martinez.

Rafał Jaki is the showrunner, and is also executive producer alongside Dylan Thomas, Taiki Sakurai, and Yoshiki Usa. Satoru Homma, Bartosz Sztybor and Saya Elder are producers.

Netflix describes the anime:

The series tells a standalone, 10-episode story about a street kid trying to survive in Night City — a technology and body modification-obsessed city of the future. Having everything to lose, he stays alive by becoming an edgerunner — a mercenary outlaw also known as a cyberpunk.

CD Projekt released the "open-world, action-adventure story" for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC in November 2020.

Source: Netflix