Netflix has dropped the first trailer for the upcoming series, The Orbital Children (also known as Extraterrestrial Boys and Girls).
The trailer, which was posted to one of Netflix's official Twitter accounts, gives anime fans a preview of the new show's colorful, science fiction setting and energetic characters. The Orbital Children's cast includes several popular and experienced voice actors like Natsumi Fujiwara (The Ancient Magus' Bride), Azumi Waki (My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!), Kensho Ono (Attack on Titan: The Final Season), Chinatsu Akasaki (Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?), Yumiko Kobayashi (The Seven Deadly Sins) and Mariya Ise (Made in Abyss).
The Orbital Children is written and directed by veteran filmmaker Mitsuo Iso, who is likely best known for his animation work on 2003's Kill Bill: Volume 1, 1995's Ghost in the Shell and several entries in the Mobile Suit Gundam franchise. He also worked for Studio Ghibli from 1990 to 1992. His new story is set in the year 2045 and follows a group of children who are left behind on a recently opened commercial space station after a massive accident. With little hope of rescue, the children must utilize their own skills and the limited tools at hand to survive the crisis.
Joining Iso on the creative team is character designer Kenichi Yoshida (Eureka Seven AO), and color designer Miho Tanaka (Burn the Witch). Toshiyuki Inoue (Evangelion: 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon A Time) serves as the main animator, Yusuke Ikeda (Great Pretender) as the art director and Youji Shimizu (Lupin the 3rd: Blood Seal of the Eternal Mermaid) as the sound director.
Rapper Harusaruhi performs The Orbital Children's theme song, "Oarana," which was written and composed by Vincent Diamante, and Rei Ishizuka (Pokémon the Movie: Volcanion and the Mechanical Marvel) is creating the rest of The Orbital Children's music.
Iso's new project is one of several upcoming anime titles that are set to premiere on Netflix earlier next year. Other examples include Bubble, which is an original anime film by the streaming service and WIT Studio (Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song) and is set to premiere on April 28, 2022, and director Takana Shirai (Berserk: The Golden Age Arc I: The Egg of the King) and Liden Films' Child of Kamiari Month, which is scheduled to debut on Feb. 8, 2022.
Netflix will release The Orbital Children as a six-episode series on Jan. 28, 2022. In Japan, it will premiere as two films, with Part 1 also debuting on Jan. 28 and Part 2 releasing on Feb. 11, 2022.
Source: Twitter