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The World Ends With You Anime Gets Air Date & New Trailer Featuring Opening Song

Today Square Enix announced the debut date of the highly-anticipated The World Ends With You anime series, alongside new events.

The World Ends With You

Today Square Enix announced the debut date of the highly-anticipated The World Ends With You anime series.

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The series will air in Japan on April 9, 2021.

We also get a trailer featuring the opening song of the anime, performed by rapper R-Designated (Creepy Nuts). The song is titled “Teenage City Riot.”

You can check it out below, alongside the new key art of the series.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVHSuUg3jHY&ab_channel=%E3%82%B9%E3%82%AF%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A7%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A8%E3%83%8B%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B9
The World Ends With You

On top of this, we also get word that a livestream featuring the anime will be broadcasted at some point in March. It will include a preview of the first episode, a look at some scene cuts, and at the art behind the series.

Another livestream will come in March “revealing the charm of The World Ends With You” with the cast in attendance.

The World Ends With You is a well-known game among JRPG fans, originally released in 2007 for Nintendo DS with a mobile game released first on iOS in 2012 and then on Android in 2014.

Among many Square Enix veteran, Kingdom Hearts director Tetsuya Nomura worked on the game as producer alongside Shinji Hashimoto and character designer alongside Gen Kobayashi, contributing to its popularity.

Another game titled Neo: The World Ends With You is coming to PS4 and Nintendo Switch this year.

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Giuseppe Nelva

Proud weeb hailing from sunny (not as much as people think) Italy and long-standing gamer since the age of Mattel Intellivision and Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Definitely a multi-platform gamer, he still holds the old dear PC nearest to his heart, while not disregarding any console on the market. RPGs (of any nationality), MMORPGs, and visual novels are his daily bread, but he enjoys almost every other genre, prominently racing simulators, action and sandbox games. He is also one of the few surviving fans on Earth of the flight simulator genre.

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