'Girls Band Cry' Reveals Main Cast, Staff, Key Visual

by Vindstot
May 29, 2023 11:37 AM | 8 Comments

The official website of Toei Animation's Girls Band Cry original anime revealed the cast, staff, key visual (pictured), and two music videos by the Togenashi Togeari unit on Monday.

Staff
Original Work, Planning, Production: Toei Animation
Director: Kazuo Sakai (Love Live! Sunshine!!)
Character Design: Nari Teshima (Holo no Graffiti)
CG Director: Mari Kondou, Jae Hoon Jung (Precure Dream Stars! Movie)
Music: Kenji Tamai (agehasprings) (Samurai Flamenco)

Cast
Nina Iseri: Rina
Momoka Kawaragi: Yuuri
Subaru Awa: Mirei
Tomo Ebizuka: Nagito
Rupa: Shuri

Synopsis
The main character drops out of high school in her second year, and aims at entering a university while working alone in Tokyo. A girl is betrayed by her friends and doesn't know what to do. Another girl is abandoned by her parents, and tries to survive in the city by doing part-time jobs. This world lets us down all the time. Nothing goes as planned. But we want something that we can continue to like. We believe there's a place where we belong. That's why we sing. (Source: Official YouTube channel)

Namonaki Nanimokamo (Nameless Name)

Itsuwari no Kotowari (No Rhyme nor Reason)

Source: PR Times

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8 Comments Recent Comments

Wow, was there some split in Sanzigen and there was a schism?

Yeah, looking at MVs, kinda agree its tolerable...funnily I go through a period to decide if I'm going to consciously like it or not...but I think its on the good side.

This is good mocap, but its superimposed with recorded real life video....it looks like they used Miku Miku Dance lol!!

Just from the MV though...we dont know how the anime proper will look....Certainly a differenty style to Sanzigen.

Will they use usual janky 2D (lol, Toei), then move to 3D mocap?

Looking at the MV as a marker....

The textures look rather decent, I like the representation of real world brands, just like Sanzigen. Apart from the Nord keyboard, the guitars, drums, background, buildings, corridors, look good. In 3D and made into their own style kinda like Sanzigen, but looks like they are going for a more realistic feel

Theres no release date yet, so fingers crossed Toei is giving this a good time to cook and polish.

Jun 4, 2023 5:07 PM by thehornedrat

Kumiveneella said:
Oh so that's why it's called "cry", I wonder whether this will have any actual spirit though. I suppose this anime could surely talk about interesting things at the end of the day. The whole meshing with the idol genre concept, always kind of stops any more counter cultural content from taking place. The songs were okay, but at the end of the day they don't really sound like songs made by the kinds of bands the show is trying to depict.

Same as name of devil may cry, although they're have different style, characters and story

May 30, 2023 6:47 PM by reny1966nanin

K-on, bandori and bocchi : finally, a new worthy opponent, our battle will be legendary

May 30, 2023 6:45 PM by reny1966nanin

Oh so that's why it's called "cry", I wonder whether this will have any actual spirit though. I suppose this anime could surely talk about interesting things at the end of the day. The whole meshing with the idol genre concept, always kind of stops any more counter cultural content from taking place. The songs were okay, but at the end of the day they don't really sound like songs made by the kinds of bands the show is trying to depict.

May 30, 2023 10:10 AM by Kumiveneella

The synopsis is something else and I'm not sure if the CGI is bearable tbh

May 30, 2023 4:25 AM by CQLLIST

Vindstot said:
The main character drops out of high school

Vindstot said:
A girl is betrayed by her friends

Vindstot said:
Another girl is abandoned by her parents

Wait, this is supposed to be a music show right?

May 30, 2023 1:20 AM by Softhenic03

I don't know what they want to do, but I hope it won't be waifu bait or another bland all-female show. Also, judging by the synopsis, it seems that the super-friendship of the two characters will again be the center of the plot, I hope that the rest of the girls will not be reduced to secondary ones.

May 29, 2023 8:41 PM by RobertBobert

well this is definitely tolerable CGI, so i'll be watching this one for sure

May 29, 2023 12:40 PM by EcchiGodMamster