Report on "SSSS.GRIDMAN Special Night! The key visual, gorgeous staff and additional cast members were unveiled!

Ultraman Festival 2018, a festival of Ultraman heroes, has been held at Sunshine City in Ikebukuro, Tokyo, since July 20. GRIDMAN Special Night" was held at the Ultraman Festival on July 25.

GRIDMAN" is a special effects program produced by Tsuburaya Productions and TBS that aired from April 1993 to January 1994 on TBS (excluding some affiliate stations) every Saturday from 17:30 to 18:00 for a total of 39 episodes. The story is about a 14-year-old boy, Naoto Sho, who is devoted to building his own computer and transforms into a new century hero to confront the evil forces that are trying to control the computer world.

It was announced at the 2015 Japan Anime (-tar) Trade Fair that the TV anime "SSSS.GRIDMAN" would be produced and broadcast in the fall of 2018. The animation will be produced by TRIGGER, which produced "Denko Chojin Gridman boys invent great hero," and will be directed by Tetsu Amemiya, who also directed the same work.
⇒Autumn 2018 Anime
⇒ GRIDMAN", key visual and first PV released! Additional main cast and staff members have been unveiled!

GRIDMAN Special Night" was held on July 25th at "Ultraman Festival 2018", an Ultra Hero festival being held at Ikebukuro Sunshine City in Tokyo from July 20th, and the official report has just arrived.

Official Report】 ※Titles omitted

GRIDMAN is a new anime scheduled to air from October 2018. It will be produced by TRIGGER, a popular animation studio with fans all over the world, 25 years after the special effects program "Denko Choujin Gridman. The first episode of the anime was shown for the first time in Japan, special guests appeared, and the Ikebukuro area was especially hot and exciting in the hot Tokyo weather.

The event started with the screening of the latest PV of SSSS. After the screening, Yuya Hirose playing Yuta Hibiki, Hikaru Midorikawa playing Gridman, Souma Saito playing Masaru Utsumi, Yume Miyamoto playing Rokka Hota, and Rena Ueda playing Akane Shinjo appeared on stage and were welcomed with loud applause from the audience. The cast introduced some of the highlights of the work, including "the battle scene of Gridman" and "the battle of Gridman. While each cast member mentioned "the battle scenes of Gridman" and "the female characters," Midorikawa said, "I think this is a work that you will want to watch again even if you missed it! and other comments drew laughter.

Finally, the first episode of SSSS. GRIDMAN. The audience laughed and cheered at the unique animation effects and small jokes based on the special effects work, and after the screening, some audience members were moved to tears, and the event was very exciting.

After the screening, the cast gathered on stage again, where Toru Inada, who plays Alexis Keliv, appeared as a secret guest. Inada, who himself is a Gridman fan, said he was happy to be on stage as a performer, "I watched Gridman from the back of this hall last year (at the Ultraman Festival).

Next on stage, new character information was revealed for the first time, including Rokka Mama (CV: Mayumi Shintani), Namiko (CV: Suzuko Mimori), Hassu (CV: Akari Kito), Samurai Calibur (CV: Ryosuke Takahashi), Max (CV: Katsuyuki Konishi), Borer (CV: Aoi Yuuki), and Vitt (CV: Masaya Matsukaze), who appeared in the first episode. Masaya Matsukaze), a mysterious boy (CV: Kenichi Suzumura), and some of the monster designs were introduced.

The designers of the monsters were also introduced. The names of the designers of the monsters included Shinji Nishikawa, who worked on the Godzilla series, Hiroshi Maruyama, who designed the Heisei Ultra series, Ichiro Itano, who is familiar with the Macross series, Osamu Yamaguchi, who designed the Silver Mask and Ultraman 80, and Masahiro Maeda, who designed the monsters and mecha in Ultraman Powered. The names of these heavyweights of the anime and tokusatsu series were displayed on the screen, and the audience let out a loud gasp.

The excitement of the audience seemed to reach its peak when a new key visual was announced, and then a special guest appeared again.

Suddenly, the venue went dark, and a glowing light appeared on his chest and his eyes. The audience was excited to see the new hero from the cyber world, and Midorikawa and Inada were so cool that they took out their smartphones and started taking pictures of him.

As the event was drawing to a close, secret guests Masaya Koo, who plays Naoto Sho, the main character of "Denko Choujin Gridman," and Denko Choujin Gridman came to support the event. The sight of the two heroes, Denko Choujin Gridman and Naoto Sho, and the animated version of Gridman and Yuta Hibiki, standing on either side of Hikaru Midorikawa, who voices Gridman in both works, was truly special for this night only. The venue was filled with a warm atmosphere as the anime version of Gridman gently soothed Hirose, who was so nervous that he stumbled through the proceedings.

Finally, each cast member commented on SSSS. Inada said, "I hope it will be a chance for fans of the special effects Gridman and fans of TRIGGER, the anime studio, to get to know each other. said Miyamoto. Hirose concluded, "I was able to play the role of Electric Superhero Gridman with a fresh mind since it was created before I was born, so please look forward to the broadcast in October. and the audience struck a transformation pose, ending the show with a grand circle.

When leaving the stage, Midorikawa ad-libbed "Grid Beam! and the two Gridmen struck a special attack pose, which drew a roar of excitement from the audience. The love and enthusiasm of the production staff is such that the audience cannot wait for the October broadcast.

On July 29, Hirose, Miyamoto, Midorikawa, the film's director Tetsu Amemiya, and assistant weapon designer Tsuyoshi Nonaka are scheduled to appear on the Gridman stage at the Wonder Festival's "WONDERFUL HOBBY LIFE FOR YOU! GRIDMAN T-shirts worn by the speakers that day will be available at the Nyan booth, and the "SSSS.GRIDMAN" STARTER BOOK by 46 members of the SSSS.GRIDMAN anime production staff will be available at the Good Smile Company booth.

GRIDMAN" TV anime, which is getting more and more exciting as it prepares to air in October 2018. We can't take our eyes off the future development.

Work Information
TV anime "SSSS.

＜Broadcast Information
TOKYO MX, MBS, BS11, WOWOW
Scheduled to air in October 2018.

＜Staff＞ Original story: Gridman

Original Story: Gridman
Director : Tetsu Amemiya
Screenplay : Keiichi Hasegawa
Character Design： Masaru Sakamoto
Gridman Design : Masayuki Goto(Tsuburaya Productions)
Alexis Design: Shigeto Koyama
Monster Design: Shinji Nishikawa / Hiroshi Maruyama / Ichiro Itano / Osamu Yamaguchi / Masahiro Maeda / Masaru Sakamoto
Assist Weapon Design: Tsuyoshi Nonaka
Junk Design: Shota Sannomiya
Heroic Animation Chief: Hiroki Mutaguchi
3DCG Director: Shinichi Miyakaze
3DCG Production: Graphinica
Art Director: Yukihiro Watanabe (Atelier Platz)
Color Design: Hitoki Takeda
Director of Photography: Yayoshi Yamamoto (Graphinica)
Editing: Masato Yoshitake (Graphinica)
Music: Shiro Sagisu
Music Production: Pony Canyon
Sound Director: Toshiki Kameyama
Sound Effects: Eiko Morikawa
Line Producer : Masato Takeuchi
Animation Producer : Kazuya Masumoto
Animation Production: TRIGGER

<Cast
Hibiki Yuta : Yuya Hirose
Gridman: Midorikawa Hikaru
Utsumi Masaru: Souma Saito
Houta Rokka: Yume Miyamoto
Shinjo Akane: Rena Ueda
Samurai Calibur: Ryosuke Takahashi
Max: Katsuyuki Konishi
Bora::Yuuki Aoi
Vitt: Masaya Matsukaze
Mystery Boy: Kenichi Suzumura
Alexis Keliv: Toru Inada
Rokka Mama: Mayumi Shintani
Namiko: Suzuko Mimori
Hassu: Akari Kito

＜Theme Song
Opening Theme Song
OxT "UNION

Ending theme song
Marei Uchida "youthful beautiful

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