Saturday, May 27, 2017

Crunchyroll to Stream "Monster Strike The Movie"!

The Monster Strike TV series, based on the game of the same name, is currently a staple here at Crunchyroll. And now, the big screen version of the anime is set to being streaming as well! Read on for full details!

 

Monster Strike The Movie launches on Friday 6/2 with start time TBA. It will be available to members worldwide excluding Japan, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau.

 

 

Monster Strike: The Movie serves as a prequel to the net anime series based on the game of the same name. The anime tells the story of Ren, who returns to his hometown with no memories of having lived there. When a a cell phone repairman installs the Monster Strike app on his phone, Ren finds himself pulled into a real-world version of the game and begins piecing his memories together again.

 

The Monster Strike app involves collecting monsters and catapulting them in a physics-based system; it's available either as a smartphone app or a 3DS game. The app reportedly earns daily revenues of more than $4 million daily, and is popular worldwide.

 

 

Main staff:


 Director: Shinpei Ezaki (Gunslinger Stratos: The Animation)

 Screenplay: Taku Kishimoto (Silver SpoonHaikyu!!)

 Story Composition: Jiro IshiiYoichi Kato

 Original Character Design: Tatsuro Iwamoto

 Original Monster Design: Masayuki Kondo

 Animation Design: Shizue Kaneko

 Anime Production: Liden FilmsUltra Super PicturesXFLAG Pictures

 Production: XFLAG

 Distribution: Warner Brothers Japan

 

 

Main Voice Cast:

 

 Ren Homura (elementary school age): Maaya Sakamoto

 Haruma Kagutsuchi (elementary school age): Tomo Muranaka

 Aoi Mizusawa: Lynn

 Minami Wakaba: Juri Kimura

 Akira Kagetsuki (junior high school age): Kengo Kawanishi

 Oragon: Jun Fukushima

 Ren Homura (junior high school age): Yusuke Kobayashi

 King Arthur of Knights of the Round Table: Nana Mizuki

 Genome: Koichi Yamadera

 

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Patrick Macias is editor in chief of Crunchyroll News & Otaku USA magazine.

He is currently serializing his latest writing project, MONDO TOKYO, on Wattpad.

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