News

Tokyo Override Animation Reveals Cast, New Visual, November 21 Debut

Netflix revealed the cast, a new key visual, and the November 21 premiere date for the Tokyo Override animated series on Monday.

The cast includes: (Top row, left to right in image above)

• Fairouz Ai as Kai
• Ryōta Takeuchi as Hugo
• Tomoaki Maeno as Spoke
• Mariya Ise as Watari

• Shigeru Chiba as Yukio
• Yū Serizawa as Ayumi
• Hōchū Ohtsuka as Kageyama
• Miyu Irino as Yasumoto
• Yūko Kaida as Ieuji

Storyteller Yuske Fukada and Veerapatra Jinanavin (Evangelion: 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon A Time CGI director) are directing the series at the Thalandi-based RiFF studio. Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. and Honda Motor Co., Ltd. are collaborating on the work. Fukuda, Sornperes Subsermsri (Evangelion: 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon A Time CGI project manager), and Kwunchanok Meesilpa are producers.

Netflix describes the animated work:

In AI-optimized Tokyo 100 years in the future, an orphan teenage hacker blends in until a favor for her only friend inadvertently draws her into a benevolent gang of outcast motorcyclists, uncovering the seemingly utopian city's sinister underbelly through a murder investigation linked to a drug syndicate. The series is directed by Yuske Fukada and Veerapatra Jinanavin in collaboration with YAMAHA MOTOR CO., LTD. and Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Sources: Netflix Anime X/Twitter account, Comic Natalie