Anime Tamago 2018’s Shorts Reveal Cast Members
The cast for IMAGICA Image Works and Robot’s “TIME DRIVER: Bokura ga Kaita Mirai” (TIME DRIVER: The Future We Draw) includes:
- Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Yūto Matsubara
- Mikako Komatsu as Chibi Yūto
- Miho Arakawa as Ai Minami/Chibi Ai
- Tomokazu Sugita as Time Driver
- Saori Ōnishi as Sphere
- Tomoko Kaneda as Dark Matter
- Yukito Souma as Boss/Salaryman/Cameraman
- Ayano Ogata as Mother/Announcer
- Nako Eguchi as Girl/Office Worker
Director: Junichi Yamamoto (3D animator for your name.)
Producers: Akiko Isobe, Ryousuke Mamiya, Tomoya Iwasawa, Hideki Kanou
Yuuto Matsubara is a 27-year-old man who works in the sales department of a major toy maker, but he isn’t able to pursue his dreams, and he feels hollow every day. He’s even given up on love with his childhood sweetheart Ai. One day a “Time Driver” robot that runs on the power of dreams appears in front of him, and he is forced into the cockpit against his will. Inside is a 12-year-old version of himself. The two companies are also working together on the live-action/CG hybrid “Luna” project.
The cast for Studio Nanahoshi and Usagi.Ou’s 3DCG Engimon (temporary title) include:
- Ayaka Asai as Yamato Amanokawa
- TARAKO as Haruo
- Yuka Yamamori as Himi Amanokawa
- Uko Tachibana as Kin-chan
- Kappei Yamaguchi as Hebikura
- Tetsu Inada as Chief Daruma
- Kotori Koiwai as Koume
- Kouzou Douzaka as Tarafuku
- Takayuki Yamaguchi as Fukujirō
- Aimi Tanaka as Kofuku
- Takuma Suzuki as Mikoto Amanokawa
- Shin'ichirō Kamio as Store Manager
- Saki Nitta as Middle-Aged Woman
Director: Kodai Sato (CGI director for Freedom, Hipira: The Little Vampire)
Producer: Kouta Yamaguchi
In the children’s room of the Amanogawa household in the neighborhood of Shichifukujin, there are five Engimon: Haruo (a papier-mache dog), Kin-chan (a goldfish paper balloon), Hebikura (a bamboo snake), Chief Daruma (a daruma doll), and Koume (a Kokeshi doll). They are always watching over the siblings of the household, Himi and Yamato. One day, an Engimon from somewhere else appears, and Himi leaves the house to chase it. Haruo and his friends come alive, much to Yamato’s surprise, and together they go to rescue Himi.
The cast for Tomason’s “Milky Panic twelve” short include:
- Taiten Kusunoki as Ippon
- Youhei Tadano as Milking
- Ami Naitō as Rabbirin
- Akio Suyama as Dicte
- Miyuki Satou as Cicica
- Katsumi Toriumi as Daru
- Mitsuaki Kanuka as White
- Kenji Nomura as Mosa
- Biichi Satou as Inochicchi
- Atsuo Hasegawa as Chickento
- Yūsuke Noguchi as Mondo
- Minoru Shiraishi as Monki
- Kōsuke Echigoya as Nyoro
- Hiroshi Naka as Butler
Director: Shinnosuke Numata (sound director for Folktalkes from Japan, director and sound director for Furusato Meguri Nippon no Mukashi Banashi)
Producer: Tomonosuke Numata
The town of Milky Town has a problem. All of the animals are drinking the milk from the company Milking, and are slowly turning into cats who have lost all motivation. The cat Milking hatched the evil plan in order to take over the world. By chance, Ippon, a tiger cowboy who used to work on the Charmy ranch, returns from his wanderings to Milky Town. There, he realizes the truth of what’s happened to Milky Town, and works to save it alongside his friends.
The cast members for Picona’s 3DCG “Midnight Crazy Trail” (temporary title) include:
- Sumire Uesaka as Makina Markut
- Toshiki Masuda as Shout
- Kenichirou Matsuda as Crunch
- Masayo Fujita as Dorothy
- Tomotaka Hachisuka as Iluge
- Aya Suzaki as Sōbii
- Takayuki Asai as Special Duty Group Leader
- Atsushi Kosaka as Operator
- Shinya Takahashi as Restaurant Manager
- Marie Ōi as Lady in Ice Cream Shop
- Yuko Ueda as Bishop
- Miki Kikuchi as Customer
Director: Shinichi Watanabe aka “Nabeshin” (Excel Saga, The Wallflower)
Producer: Ken Yoshida
Shout and Crunchy are “trash throw away-ers” who work in the dead of night. Makina is a 16-year-old witch who has come to the world of humans and to London to study for one year about how to become a proper bride. But Makina searches for Shout and Crunchy, and begs them to throw away her “Witch’s Book.” Truthfully, Makina wants to quit being a witch and become a normal girl, and the book is just a hindrance. But the book is not something one can simply just throw away.
(Fuente: animenewsnetwork.com)
