The official Happinet YouTube channel has uploaded a new 1.12 promotional video for the upcoming original anime series The Cost of Smiles. The video has new footage from the series, it shows fierce mecha battles and shows new characters in action. The anime will air in the following television networks: WOWOW, TOKYO MX, AT-X and J:COM.
Cast
Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Joshua Ingram
Rina Satou as Leila Etoile
Nobutosho Canna as Harold Miller
Ryoutarou Okiayu as Izana Langford
Makoto Koichi as Uni Vanquish
Junya Enoki as Rene Vanquish
Yumiri Hanamori as Yuuki
Saori Hayami as Stella
The series will premiere in January 4, 2019 and has 12 episodes listed. Toshimasa Suzuki is directing the anime, Shinichi Inozume is under series composition, naoto Nakamura handles the character design, Tsubasa Ito produces the music and Tatsunoko Production animates the project. The opening theme is Egao no Kanata by Chiho feat majiko and the ending is Kono Sekai ni Hanataba o by kimi no orphee.
On a planet far from Earth, there is a kingdom full of smiling faces. Princess Yuuki is 12 years old, and about to enter a sensitive age in a person's life. Everyday, she cries, laughs, and sometimes, her heart throbs with excitement. All the while, she lives merrily in the royal palace.
Filling her days are her loyal vassals: her tutor Reira, Izana who assists in political affairs, the leader of the chivalry Harold … and then there is her childhood friend and aide Joshua.
"Yuuki! If you have spirit and guts, you can do anything!"
"…No, not this again! Joshua, be nobler!"
Stella is 17 years old and a capable, reserved soldier. However, she is always smiling ... for smiling is essential to living.
This is a story of two girls born on distant planets.
The Cost of Smiles hits screens on January 4, 2019