Sadly, this doesn’t have a segment where some dude sits on your neighbor’s lawn for five minutes while they close a portal.
Earlier today, the Ingress anime’s official Twitter account updated with a new teaser trailer. The promo, titled “Awakening”, offers a brief look at the show in action, as it introduces the major story beats.
The +Ultra YouTube channel is streaming two shorter versions of the teaser, which you can check out below.
30 Second Teaser
15 Second Teaser
Ingress will be a launch title for Fuji TV’s new +Ultra programming block. The series will premiere on Fuji TV on October 17, at 24:55 JST (10/18/2018 at 12:55AM JST). Netflix will stream the show in its entirety starting a day later. Kansai TV, Tokai TV, TV West Japan, Hokkaido Bunka Broadcasting, and BS Fuji broadcasting will also carry the title.
Yūhei Sakuragi (The Relative Worlds) was tapped to direct the project at Craftar, with Takeshi Honda (Millennium Actress, Den-noh Coil) providing the original (pre-animation) character designs. The team of Sōki Tsukishima and Tora Tsukishima are in charge of series composition.
The confirmed voice cast includes:
- Sarah Coppola: Reina Ueda
- Makoto Midorikawa: Yoshiki Nakajima
- Hank Johnson: Hiroo Sasaki
- Zion Kunikida: Kentarou Tone
- Liu Tien Hua: Kousuke Toriumi
- ADA: Megumi Ogata
- Jack Norman: Shigeo Kiyama
- Christopher Brandt: Tarusuke Shingaki
Ingress is a location-based, augmented-reality mobile game from Niantic, which launched on the Android mobile operating system in November 2012. The game later reached Apple’s iOS in July 2014. The game boasts more than eight million downloads, and seven million players.
An update for the game, titled Ingress Prime was unveiled in December 2017. The update is due to hit later this year, though a specific date hasn’t been specified.
The title itself boasts a sci-fi backstory, which is used to motivate players to travel to various real-world spots to claim “portals.” Niantic describes the plot as:
This world around you is not what it seems. Our future is at stake, and you must choose a side.
A mysterious energy has been unearthed by a team of scientists in Europe. The origin and purpose of this force is unknown, but some researchers believe it is influencing the way we think. We must control it or it will control us.“The Enlightened” seek to embrace the power that this energy may bestow upon us.
“The Resistance” struggle to defend, and protect what’s left of our humanity.
Install Ingress and transform your world.
Which side are you on?
Source: Otakomu
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