It has been announced that "Shinkalion: Change the World" a new work in the "Shinkalion" anime series in which Shinkansen trains transform into robots, will be broadcast on TV Tokyo from April. It was also announced that voice actors Hiiro Ishibashi, Kensho Ono, and Shimba Tsuchiya will play the three second-year junior high school students who will become the main characters. Ishibashi will play Taisei Onari, the main character who loves trains, Ono will play Akane Forden, the second son of a sports elite family, and Tsuchiya will play Ryota Kuzuryu, a mood maker who belongs to the railway club.
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In the new work, Taisei Onari and other drivers will operate the Shinkalion developed by the Super Evolutionary Railway Development Organization, commonly known as ERDA, and will fight against the unknown enemy, Unknown, who appears in various parts of Japan. The cast of characters supporting Taisei and others was also announced. Hana Tamegai plays the role of Bina, the navigating AI, and Kaede Hondo plays Mai Ome, a second-year middle school student who is the manager of the railway club. Chikahiro Kobayashi will play Kadomichi Takanawa, who is in charge of Shinkalion drivers and dispatchers, and Eri Kitamura will play Ina Onari, Taisei's missing sister.
"Shinkalion: Change the World" will be produced by Signal MD, which is responsible for "Platinum End," and Production IG, which is responsible for the "Ghost in the Shell" series. Following the previous series, SMDE will handle the CG animation. In "Shinkansen Henkei Robo Shinkalion" and "Shinkansen Henkei Robo Shinkalion Z," the main characters were elementary school students, but in the new work, three middle school boys will be the main characters. The Shinkalion, which the main character Taisei Onari and others ride, is combined with a reinforced armed vehicle modeled after an actual work vehicle. This is the first time in the series that Shinkalion is combined with a vehicle.