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Disney Plus Adds Black Rock Shooter: Dawn Fall, Summer Time Rendering Anime in Southeast Asia
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Disney's Disney+ streaming service added the Black Rock Shooter: Dawn Fall anime last week in Southeast Asia, and the Summer Time Rendering anime on Wednesday. Disney+ added four episodes of Black Rock Shooter: Dawn Fall to catch up with the Japanese airing, with new episodes every Wednesday, three days after the Japanese premiere. Disney+ did not add catch-up episodes for Summer Time Rendering, so the anime has a three-episode gap with the Japanese airing.
Black Rock Shooter: Dawn Fall premiered in Japan on April 3.
In the show's story, it is the year 2062, two decades after the failure of a massive workforce automation project. However, Artemis, the artificial intelligence at the core of that project, had decided to attack humanity, and the resulting war laid waste to Earth.
A lone girl, Empress, wakes up in an underground laboratory at a base. She is one of three surviving guardians of humanity. However, she has no memories of what came before. All she knows is what a colonel of the peace-building force tells her.
Artemis is constructing a space elevator to link the Moon and Earth, and Empress is ordered to destroy the space elevator before its completion. If the elevator is completed, the hordes of giant mechanized forces being mass-produced on the Moon will descend upon Earth.
However, standing in the way of Empress are Dead Master and Strength (even though they are supposed allies of Empress), as well as the unmanned pawn forces of Artemis, Smiley of the "Educational Institution" cult, and more.
Empress makes her advance towards the space elevator with the colonel and others. What awaits them there ...
Tensho (Grisaia: Phantom Trigger, Azur Lane) is directing the anime at his Bibury Animation Studio and Bibury Animation CG studio. Makoto Fukami (Psycho-Pass, Blade of the Immortal, Magical Girl Special Ops Asuka) is writing and overseeing the scripts in collaboration with Ryō Yoshigami (Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System, Psycho-Pass 3, Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector scripts). Rui Tomono (The Relative Worlds), Makoto Ishiwata (Psycho-Pass Dominator design) and Yōjo Ōta (Azur Lane Demon Fox design) are credited for concept designs. Masayuki Nonaka (Rewrite, Azur Lane) and Yō Nakagawa (Azur Lane assistant animation director) are the character designers and chief animation directors. The illustrator huke is credited for the original work and original character concepts.
The singer ZAQ is performing the opening theme song "ASEED." Kanako Takatsuki performs the ending theme song "Before the Nightmare."
Summer Time Rendering premiered in Japan on April 14. The show will have 25 episodes and will cover the entire manga.
Publisher Shueisha describes the story:
Upon hearing of Ushio's death, SHINPEI returns to his hometown of Wakayama City on Hitogashima and reunites with his childhood friend's family. The funeral goes smoothly, but under the surface something strange is brewing on the island. What mysteries await him on this secluded summer island?
Ayumu Watanabe (Space Brothers, Children of the Sea) is directing the anime. Hiroshi Seko (Jujutsu Kaisen, Attack on Titan, Mob Psycho 100) is in charge of the script and series composition. Miki Matsumoto (Major 2nd, Angels of Death is designing the characters. Kusanagi (Higurashi: When They Cry – GOU and SOTSU, 22/7) is in charge of art. NieR series composers Keiichi Okabe, Ryuuichi Takada, and Keigo Hoashi are handling the music at MONACA.
Rock band Macaroni Enpitsu perform the first opening theme song "Hoshi ga Oyogu" (The Stars Swim) for the anime's first half. The artist cadode performs the ending theme song "Kaika" for the anime's first half as his major debut.
