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JAM Project Performs Cyborg 009 Vs. Devilman's Theme Songs

The anime song unit Gō Nagai's Devilman characters. The anime will play in a limited October engagement in theaters with the opening theme song "Cyborg 009 ~Nine Cyborg Soldiers~" and the ending theme song "Devil Mind ~Ai wa Chikara~" (Love Is Power).

Theaters will start screening the anime on October 17, and they will also hold advance sales for a CD single with both theme songs. Animate, L-Mart, and BVC will then start offering the single exclusively in November.

In the story of Cyborg 009, Joe Shimamura and others gained cyborg powers when they were involuntarily altered by an evil organization, and then they fight to protect the world against the organization. The story of Devilman follows Akira Fudō, who fights invading enemies to save humanity after being possessed by demon powers.

In the new anime, the two title characters will meet and battle because of a certain incident. The tagline reads, "Who will survive…?"

The main Cyborg 009 cast includes:

Wagnaria!!'s Sōta Takanashi) as Joe Shimamura/009

Sanzoku no Musume Ronja's Ronja) as Ivan Whisky/001

Death Parade's Decim) as Jet Link/002

Durarara!!×2 Shō's Vorona) as Françoise Arnoul/003

D.Gray-man's Cross Marian) as Albert Heinrich/004

Turn A Gundam's Phil Ackman, Gangsta.'s Miles Meyer) as Geronimo Jr./005

Legend of the Galactic Heroes' Neithardt Müller) as Chang Changku/006

Hozumi Gôda (Hunter x Hunter's Leorio) as Great Britain/007

Ayumu Okamura as Pyunma/008

The main Devilman cast includes:

Phi-Brain's Kaito) as Devilman and Akira Fudō

Sword Art Online's Sachi) as Miki Makimura

Bakuman.'s Akito Takagi) as Ryō Asuka

The cast also includes:

Neon Genesis Evangelion's Kaworu Nagisa) as Apollo

Whisper of the Heart's Shizuku) as Helena

Shōwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjū's Matsuda) as Professor Isaac Gilmore

Houchu Ohtsuka (Naruto's Jiraiya, Durarara!!×2 Shō's Haruya Shiki) as Jinmen and Steel Angel Kurumi's Kurumi) as Sacchan

Actas. Nagai acknowledged that he once thought that these characters are like "water and oil." Nevertheless, he commented that it is "an anime that displays excellent harmony without destroying the mood or sensibilities of each character as they clash."

The anime's two-week theatrical engagement will start in 10 theaters in Japan on October 17. The project will then ship as a three-episode original video anime.

Nagai worked as an assistant to Ishinomori and drew backgrounds for Cyborg 009 before launching Devilman. According to Sankei Sports, Nagai has had thoughts on a collaboration with Ishinomori for a long time.

A new Cyborg 009 anime announced for limited event screenings this fall, but the two announcements — complete with two separate visuals — were not linked together at first.

Ishinomori first launched the Cyborg 009 manga in the Panasonic.

Nagai launched the original Weekly Shōnen Magazine in 1972. The collected volumes of the manga have more than 10 million copies in print. A television anime adaptation of the manga aired simultaneously in 1972.

Source: Famitsu