Bandai Namco Filmworks has released a new crossover art piece combining Love Live! and Space Battleship Yamato. It has also revealed a new crossover short between the two series.
Check out the new crossover short and art for the Love Live! and Space Battleship Yamato collaboration below:
Recently, the staff for the Love Live! franchise confirmed that the Love Live! Hasu no Sora Jōgakuin School Idol Club anime will premiere on 10:30 p.m. JST on January 10 on the Tokyo MX channels with a 7-episode run. The anime will also air on the BS11, Sun TV, KBS Kyoto, TV Aichi, RKB Mainichi Broadcasting, Shizuoka Broadcasting System, Hokkaido Broadcasting, and Hokuriku Broadcasting channels.
Gō Kurosaki directs the anime at Sublimation. Fumiaki Maruto is the script writer, Haruko Iizuka is the character designer, and Kaito Hamakawa directs the CG. Keiichi Nozaki is the sound director, and Yoshiaki Fujisawa is the music composer with Lantis handling music production.
Additional staff members include:
- Design Works: Yū Kisaragi
- Art Director: Yasuhiro Okumura
- Stage Concept Art: Marina Manode
- Color Key Artist: Hikari Komiya
- Compositing Director of Photography: Hiroshi Tanaka and Fumika Takahashi
- Editing: Manabu Kamino
The cast includes:
- Nozomi Nirei as Kaho Hinoshita
- Kokona Nonaka as Sayaka Murano
- Niina Hanamiya as Kozue Otomune
- Kotoko Sasaki as Tsuzuri Yūgiri
- Kanna Kan as Rurino Ōsawa
- Kona Tsukine as Megumi Fujishima
- Hina Sakurai as Ginko Momose
- Fūka Hayama as Kosuzu Kachimachi
- Rin Kurusu as Hime Anyōji
- Miu Miyake as Ceras Yanagida Lilienfeld
- Amane Shindō as Izumi Katsuragi
Previously, Production I.G. and Studio Khara also announced that they are creating the anime film Cosomoship Yamato √2199. It will be directed by Hideaki Anno and Yutaka Izubuchi. Anno is planning the movie alongside Mitsuhisa Ishikawa. Anno first announced he was working on a Yamato project in October 2024 after the 50th anniversary of Space Battleship Yamato. In the meantime, the seventh and final Be Forever Yamato: Rebel 3199 film, titled Nijiiro no Rinne (Rainbow-Colored Reincarnation) will premiere in Japan on October 30.
