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Nico Touches the Walls, Tia Will Perform New Captain Earth Themes

The official website for the Captain Earth anime announced on Monday that band NICO TOUCHES THE WALLS and singer Tia will perform the series' new theme songs. NICO TOUCHES THE WALLS will perform the opening theme, "TOKYO Dreamer" and Tia will sing the ending theme "The Glory Days."

The new opening theme can be heard in the latest Captain Earth television commercial.

The NICO TOUCHES THE WALLS rock band formed in 2004 with singer Tatsuya Mitsumura, guitarist Daisuke Furumura, bass player Shingo Sakakura, and drummer Shotaro Tsushima. They performed multiple themes for Naruto Shippūden, the second opening for Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, C – Control – The Money and Soul of Possibility's opening theme, and most recently the first ending for Haikyu!!

Tia is a singer and voice actress. She collaborated with multimedia group supercell on themes for Wooser's Hand-to-Mouth Life and Noragami.

The series premiered on April 5 on Crunchyroll where it is currently streaming as it airs in Japan. Sentai Filmworks licensed the series for North America.

The story of Captain Earth begins when second-year high school student Daichi Manatsu suddenly spies a mysterious circular rainbow floating in the skies over Tanegashima island on television, on the evening before summer vacation begins.

"I've seen that rainbow before…"

Moved by intense foreboding, he heads to Tanegashima, the home of Japan's Tanegashima Space Center, by himself. A 17-year-old boy named Teppei Arashi then asks why Daichi has returned to this island. Daichi replies that he came back to fulfill a promise.

The mystery of his father's accidental death. Memories of the mysterious boys and girls he met during childhood. Daichi arrives at the island full of complex emotions, and as alarms sound at the center, he encounters the robot "Earth Engine."

Daichi is asked, "Are you the Captain?" The target is the mysterious all-mechanical lifeform Kill-T-Gang that is invading from the orbit of Uranus. Now, when the stars in the skies are ablaze, the curtains open on their battle….

BONES is reuniting Star Driver's director Takuya Igarashi and series script supervisor Yoji Enokido for this project. The two also collaborated in Ouran High School Host Club and Sailor Moon Super S. Enokido said that, whereas Star Driver was a "school robot" story, they are now doing a conventional robot anime.

Satoshi Ishino is adapting Fumi Minato's original character designs for animation, and he is also the chief animation director. A Star Driver veteran, Shigeto Koyama, designed the Earth Engine and other Engine Series mecha, while Takayuki Yanase handled the Machine Goodfellow designs and other mecha. Shinji Aramaki and Takeshi Takakura are the other mechanical designers. Masaki Asai and Takeshi Yoshioka designed the enemy Kirutogangu, and the artist okama is contributing concept designs. Tsuyoshi Kusano is the graphic designer, and Masatsugu Saitō is credited for design works.

Yasushi Muraki is directing the effects, while Masaru Yanaka and Koji Eto are in charge of the art with art designer Takeshi Takahashi. Shihoko Nakayama is the color key artist, and Tsuyoshi Kanbayashi is the director of photography. Kōki Ōta is directing the CGI, and Yoshiyuki Asai is serving as the director's assistant. Shigeru Nishiyama is the editor.

Kazuhiro Wakabayashi is the sound director, and Shizuo Kurahashi is handling the sound effects. Satoru Kousaki of monaca is scoring the soundtrack.

Update: Title fixed. Thanks, Sarukah