The official website for The Ribbon Hero original anime movie revealed the lead cast, additional staff, a key visual (pictured right), and the first trailer on Tuesday. The anime movie based on Osamu Tezuka's Ribbon no Kishi manga is scheduled to premiere worldwide exclusively on Netflix on August 8.
LALANDE comedian and Raisan vocalist Saya is starring as the lead character Sapphire.Staff
Nergal Design: okama (Pretty Rhythm original character design)
Background Art Director: Masanobu Nomura (86)
Color Design: Natsumi Watabe (Chou Kaguya-hime!)
CG Director: Akine Nagamine (Akiba's Trip The Animation)
Director of Photography: Hikaru Fukuda (Akagami no Shirayuki-hime)
Editing: Junichi Uematsu (Beastars)
Music: Satoru Kousaki (MONACA) (Kusuriya no Hitorigoto), Ryuuichi Takada (MONACA) (Summertime Render)
Sound Director: Keiichirou Miyoshi (Burn the Witch)
Sound Production: Tohokushinsha Film Corporation
Yuuki Igarashi (Star Wars: Visions) is directing the anime at Outline. Issei Arakaki (Vlad Love) is adapting the original character design by Kei Mochizuki.
Tezuka serialized the adventure fantasy manga in Shoujo Club magazine from January 1953 to January 1956. Kodansha published the third and final volume in June 1958.
Produced by Mushi Production, a television adaptation of the manga aired in 52 episodes from Spring 1967 to Spring 1968.
Synopsis
Sapphire is the princess of a kingdom that no longer exists. Having lost everything in her homeland of Silverland to the calamity known as "Nergal," she wanders in despair until she finally arrives in Goldland.
Though burdened by her past, she begins to find a glimmer of hope as she encounters the kindness of the people there. But as if to sneer at her peaceful new life, the calamity Nergal appears once more. The very despair that once reduced her homeland to ashes now threatens to steal the light from this land as well.
"I won't lose anything ever again. And I won't let anyone else lose anything either." Brushing away her tears of sorrow, the girl takes up her sword. This is the story of a lone hero who ties her ribbon and resolves to defy her fate. (Source: Netflix)
Trailer
Source: PR Times
