After a
long wait with no news since its initial announcement in mid-2023, the
promising sci-fi survival story Rebuild World finally showed signs of
life again. Kadokawa officially shared the first promotional image of the
animated adaptation, also revealing the key names that will be in charge of the
production within the studio.
The
animation will be in the hands of the Raging Bull studio, with Tsukasa
Sakurai as chief director and Shingo Uchida in the general direction
of the series. The supervision and writing of the scripts were under the
responsibility of Naoki Tozuka, while the character design adapted for
the screen will be in charge of Hiromi Kato. As for the main voice cast,
it was confirmed that Daiki Yamashita will lend her voice to the young
Akira, Yurika Kubo will play the mysterious Alpha and Honoka Inoue
will give life to the character of Sheryl.
The plot
transports viewers to a distant future where the peak of human civilization is
already in the past, leaving behind a destroyed world full of ruins. Surviving
humanity attempts to rebuild society by recovering ancient artifacts of immense
technical power, even if getting them means risking their lives in the face of
automated security systems and out-of-control biological weapons. In the midst
of this reality, Akira, a young orphan from the suburbs who seeks to escape
misery, decides to become a relic hunter. His luck changes drastically when he
crosses paths with Alpha, a mysterious woman with the appearance of a specter
who offers to train him in exchange for his services.
Rebuild
World is a series
of science fiction light novels written by Nahuse, originally born on
the Shosetsuka ni Naro and Kakuyomu portals in February 2017. The work made the
leap to the printed format under the Kadokawa publishing house in 2019, with
illustrations by Gin, concept art of environments by yish and
mechanical designs made by cell. The franchise also has a successful
manga adaptation illustrated by Kirihito Ayamura, which has been published
since July 2019 and accumulates sixteen compilation volumes.
