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 Spoon, Haikyu!!)
Story Composition: Jiro Ishii, Yoichi Kato
Original Character Design: Tatsuro Iwamoto
Original Monster Design: Masayuki Kondo
Animation Design: Shizue Kaneko
Anime Production: Liden Films, Ultra Super Pictures, XFLAG 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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He is currently serializing his latest writing project, MONDO TOKYO, on Wattpad.
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