Netflix has released a new key visual for the upcoming Terminator Zero anime series, which is scheduled to debut on the streaming service on August 29, 2024.
The company also announced that a free mini poster will be given to attendees of the Terminator Zero panel at Anime NYC on August 24, 2024.
The series will run for a total of eight episodes and is part of the overall Terminator universe, serving as its first animated installment. However, the story will focus on new characters not featured in the films.
The main voice cast of Terminator Zero includes:
- • Timothy Olyphant as the Terminator
- • Rosario Dawson as Kokoro
- • André Holland as Malcolm Lee
- • Sonoya Mizuno as Eiko
- • Ann Dowd as The Prophet
Additionally, the newly announced Japanese dub voice cast includes:
- • Yasuhiro Mamiya as Terminator
- • Yuya Uchida as Malcolm
- • Toa Yukinari as Eiko
- • Atsumi Tanezaki as Kokoro
- • Saori Hayami as Misaki
- • Hiro Shimono as Kenta
- • Shizuka Ishigami as Hiro
- • Miyuki Sato as Reika
Production I.G is in charge of the animation production, with Masashi Kudo (Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War character designer) directing the series. Skydance’s David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, and Don Granger are serving as executive producers. Mattson Tomlin (Project Power, The Batman II) is the series showrunner, executive producer, and writer on the series.
Netflix describes the main synopsis of Terminator Zero as:
2022: A future war has raged for decades between the few human survivors and an endless army of machines. 1997: The AI known as Skynet gained self-awareness and began its war against humanity.
Caught between the future and this past is a soldier sent back in time to change the fate of humanity. She arrives in 1997 to protect a scientist named Malcolm Lee who works to launch a new AI system designed to compete with Skynet’s impending attack on humanity. As Malcolm navigates the moral complexities of his creation, he is hunted by an unrelenting assassin from the future which forever alters the fate of his three children.
Source: Netflix Anime Official Twitter
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