The new
anime Milky☆Subway: The Galactic Limited Express, sequel to the short film Milky☆Highway, has revealed the addition of the renowned
seiyuu Yukari Tamura, who will voice the character of Minami
Minase, a famous idol within the story
The news
was announced through the official X account (formerly Twitter) of
animator Yōhei Kameyama, creator of the project. Along with the
reveal, a video was released with the inserted song "Tokimeki★Meteostrike," performed by Minami Minase (voice of
Tamura).
Release
date and international distribution
The anime
is scheduled to premiere on Wednesday, July 3 at 2:54 p.m. (Spanish
time) on the Japanese channel Tokyo MX, and will be
broadcast simultaneously on YouTube.
One of the
big surprises is that it will have dubbing in ten languages,
including Spanish, English, Portuguese, Korean, Chinese, Thai,
Indonesian, French, Hindi and Russian, available since its premiere on the
video platform.
A
dysfunctional crew on a space train
According
to the official synopsis, the story follows Chiharu, a human with
special abilities, and Makina, a cyborg, who are arrested for
violating space traffic laws. They both end up in a group of misfits: Akane
and Kanata (another superhuman couple) and Kurt and Max (cyborg
friends).
Officer Ryoko sentences
them to clean up the "Milky☆Subway", an
interplanetary train. What seemed like a simple task turns into chaos when the
train unexpectedly takes off into deep space, beginning a journey
without direction, logic or purpose, driven only by the energy of the
absurd.
The team
behind the stellar chaos
The project
is once again led almost entirely by Yōhei Kameyama, who not only
directs, writes, and produces the anime, but also handles character design,
modeling, animation, editing, and more.
From a
student project to a multilingual anime
The
original short film Milky☆Highway was
released in 2022 as Kameyama's graduation project at the Vantan Game
Academy. The original version and the English subtitles have more
than 6.75 million views on YouTube.
The theme
song for the new anime will be "Gingakei Made Tonde Ike!", a
song released in 1977 by the Japanese girl group Candies.
With a
unique visual style and an out-of-the-ordinary narrative, Milky☆Subway is shaping up to be a wacky space
comedy, ready to conquer audiences around the world.
