It was confirmed on Friday that the portal website Gundam.info will be airing the new television anime series Gundam Build Divers on Tuesday simultaneously with its airing in Japan. Anime streaming service Crunchyroll announced Monday that they will also be adding the anime to its simulcast lineup. The stream will be available for its users worldwide (excluding Asia).
It was revealed by Sunrise that a new Gundam anime series titled Gundam Build Divers will air in TV Tokyo (and its other affiliate channels) in Spring.
The portal website Gundam.info released an English-subtitled video of the anime prologue. You can watch it below:
The website describes the prologue:
The Gunpla Force Battle Tournament is a big event held in GBN once per year. Competing in the final round are Avalon, led by the champion Kyoya Kujo, and the elite 7th Panzer Division led by the cunning Rommel. Starting with Kyoya’s Gundam AGE II Magnum, a variety of Gunpla take to the field to determine which is the strongest force!
The show will star the follow cast and characters:
Yūsuke Kobayashi as Riku Mikami (Diver Name: Riku)
Natsumi Fujiwara as Yukio Hidaka (Diver Name: Yukky)
Nene Hieda as Yashiro Momoka (Diver Name: Momo)
Jun Kasama as Kyōya Kujō
Sho Hayami as Rommel
The staff working in this production are the following:
Planning: Sunrise
Director: Shinya Watada
Original Work: Hajime Yatate, Yoshiyuki Tomino
Series Composition: Noboru Kimura
Original Character Designs: Hiro Harakazu
Character Designs: Shuri Toida
Mechanical Designs: Kunio Okawara, Kanetake Ebikawa, Junichi Akutsu, Junya Ishigaki, Ippei Gyōbu, Kenji Teraoka, Shinya Terashima, Takayuki Yanase, Naohiro Washio
Action Director: Masami Obari
Chief Mecha Animators: Shinya Kusumegi, Sakiko Uda
Art: Studio Naya
Music: Hideakira Kimura
Planning Cooperation: Bandai Hobby Division
Production Cooperation: ADK
Production: TV Tokyo, Sunrise, Sotsu
The opening song titled “Diver’s High” will be performed by SKY-HI. The ending song “Ashita e” (Towards Tomorrow) will be performed by Iris.