A new CG anime film titled
Planzet is set to open this year in Japan, and it's somewhat anticipated due to its pedigree: it's being directed by
Jun Awazu, who has made a career for about 10 years of doing CG animation for a wide variety of films, both anime (like Zoids Shinseiki/Zero) and live-action (Kamen Rider 555), as well as some games (2002's Shinobi). His last directorial credit, however, was a tokusatsu film called Negadon: The Monster from Mars, which featured many references to earlier Japanese films.
Independence Day?
But Planzet is going to be set in the year 2053, and unsurprisingly, all of humanity will be facing some kind of crisis. Based on the trailer at its official site, it looks kinda like Independence Day, but with mechs. So far!
Today
anime!anime! reports that
Mamoru Miyano, best known for playing leads such as
Death Note's
Light Yagami,
Gundam 00's
Setsuna F. Seiei, and
Ouran High School Host Club's
Tamaki, will be playing the protagonist in Planzet, whose name is
Taishi Akashima.
Joining him as his little sister
Koyomi is Happy! Style member
Kaori Ishihara in what looks to be her first voice-acting role ever, which should be interesting.
All in all, looks like it could be a cool film. Check out the trailer and tell me what you think.
Actually, what little movement you could see looked kinda choppy, like the robot hand readying the gun, though that might be intentional, it was a robot after all.