The upcoming theatrical anime film AS ONE published a new trailer today. The film, which serves as a prequel to the 2018 Square Enix arcade game Starwing Paradox , begins its theatrical release in Japan on August 22. AS ONE Trailer RELATED: AS ONE Anime Movie Releases New Trailer Featuring RUKI Theme Song Kobuno Shizuno directs AS ONE at animation studios Honoo and StudioGOONEYS. Shatner Nishida, Kana Matsui and Masaya Honda provide the script while Yoshiyuki Sadamoto provides the character designs and Ippei Gyoubu provides the mechanical designs. The story of the film is described (in translation) as follows: Present-day Earth. Yoh, a high school student who aspires to become a musician, is troubled by his parents' opposition and his bandmates' relationships, and is undecided about his future. One day, as Yoh walks through a Shibuya intersection, a voice echoes in his brain, “Help!" and he is enveloped in a white light. Meanwhile, Meguriboshi floats in space. Just as a ceremony was about to be held to mediate a truce between the Va Led Sei Kingdom and the Ko Country A Slegga, which had been at war for a long time over the energy source "Hoshi no Chi" ("star blood"), a huge piece of orbital debris falls, and Vigo of the Purugard team was frantically dealing with the situation. Rako, a robot mechanic, takes off in a plane that is still in the process of being serviced to save Vigo, but she finds herself in a critical situation. After a brief flash of light, Rako's heavily damaged plane is able to move the debris to the surface of the sea, but she loses consciousness. Rako, in a coma, meets Yoh in her consciousness. What is the meaning of the encounter between Yoh and Rako? And what is the fate that awaits Yoh and Rako, two in one? Source: AS ONE on X (formerly Twitter)
