#Tokyo Babylon 2021 Anime Gets New Trailer and Visual, April 2021 Release Date, New Details

Tokyo Babylon 2021, GoHand’s upcoming anime adaptation of CLAMP’s Tokyo Babylon manga, has received a new trailer and visual. It also received some cast and staff details. In addition, the trailer revealed that the anime will premiere in April 2021. 

Aoi Shouta (Symphogear AXZ) is voicing protagonist Subaru Sumeragi, while Nana Mizuki (Symphogear series, Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha series) voices his sister, Hakuto Sumeragi. Yuuichirou Umehara (Akudama Drive) is voicing the other main character in the show, Seishirou Sakurazuka.

The staff includes Shingo Suzuki (K series, Handshakers, W’z) and Susumu Kudou (Mardock Scramble trilogy) as co-directors, Jun Kumagai (Hamatora, Persona4 the Golden ANIMATION) as series composer, and Makoto Furuta (Seitokai Yakuindomo) as character designer.

The Tokyo Babylon manga was first published in Japan in the 1990s and received an OAV adaptation in 1992. Dark Horse Comics describes the story:

It’s 1991, the last days of Japan’s bubble economy, and money and elegance run through the streets. So do the currents of darkness beneath them, nourishing evil spirits that only the arts of the onmyoji—Japan’s legendary occultists—can combat. The two most powerful onmyoji are in the unlikely guises of a handsome young veterinarian, Seishiro, and the teenage heir to the ancient Sumeragi clan, Subaru.

Subaru and Seishirou also appear as side characters in CLAMP’s X, which is set after the events of Tokyo Babylon and features a conflict between two opposing sides for the fate of humanity. They also appear in Tsubasa ~RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE~, another CLAMP work, albeit as different versions of their Tokyo Babylon and X selves.

The first visual for Tokyo Babylon was released in October.