Japan Sinks: 2020 is an upcoming anime series by Masaaki Yuasa, who also directed DEVILMAN crybaby. The series is set to be released in 2020 on Netflix. The series is based on the disaster novel "Japan Sinks" written by Sakyo Komatsu.
Plot[]
Shortly after the Tokyo Olympics in 2020, a major earthquake hits Japan. Amidst the chaos, siblings Ayumu and Go of the Mutou household, begin to escape the city with their family of four. The sinking Japanese archipelagos, however, relentlessly pursue the family.
Plunged into extreme conditions, life and death, and the choice of meeting and parting—in the face of dreadful reality, the Mutoh siblings believe in the future and acquire the strength to survive with utmost effort.
Episodes[]
# | Title | Release |
---|---|---|
1 | The Beginning of the End | July 9th, 2020 |
2 | Farewell, Tokyo | July 9th, 2020 |
3 | A New Hope | July 9th, 2020 |
4 | An Open Door | July 9th, 2020 |
5 | Illusion | July 9th, 2020 |
6 | An Oracle | July 9th, 2020 |
7 | The Dawn | July 9th, 2020 |
8 | Mom's Secret | July 9th, 2020 |
9 | Japan Sinks | July 9th, 2020 |
10 | Resurrection | July 9th, 2020 |
Staff[]
- Director: Masaaki Yuasa
- Series director: Pyoungkang Heo
- Screenplay: Hisao Yoshitaka
- Music: Kensuke Ushio
- Character design: Naoya Wada
- Color design: ken Hashimoto
- Director of photography: Toshikazu Hisano
- Sound director: Eriko Kimura
- Editing: Kiyoshi Hirose
- Anime production: SCIENCE SARU
- Production: "JAPAN SINKS:2020" Project Partners
Cast[]
- Reina Ueda as Ayumu Mutoh
- Tomo Muranaka as Go Mutoh
- Yuko Sasaki as Mari Mutoh
- Masaki Terasoma as Koichiro Mutoh
- Hiroyuki Yoshino as Haruo Koga
- Kensho Ono as Kite
- Daiki Hamano as Osamu Asada
- Nanako Mori as Nanami Miura
- Tomoko Shiota as Kanae Murota
- Umeji Sasaki as Kunio Hikita
- Taichi Takeda as Saburo Otani
- Gensho Tasaka as Daniel