LISTENERS is an upcoming Spring 2020, TV-anime produced by MAPPA and directed by Hiroaki Ando. While Funimation has the licensing rights for distribution outside of Japan, Amazon and its Amazon Prime streaming division have secured the exclusive-Japanese streaming license. Funimation will stream, dub and home-video release “LISTENERS” in North America. Read more about “LISTENERS” and checkout the series first official preview-video after the jump.
The 1st “Key-Visual” We Have Of LISTENERS
In addition to a key-visual the studio dropped a preview-video a bit under two-minutes long. Check it out below:
https://youtu.be/4VtkH5mhNVQ
Here’s Funimation’s official description for “LISTENERS”; From MAPPA (Terror in Resonance, Yuri!!! on ICE), Listeners takes place in a world where the entire idea of music vanishes from existence. The story follows Echo Rec (Ayumu Murase), a young teen who comes across μ (Rie Takahashi), a girl who, oddly enough, has an auxiliary port on her body. Together, they’ll work to rock the foundation of society and bring music back to the world.
LISTENERS will begin airing early April, 2020. If you’re in Japan, catch it on Mainchi Broadcasting System / Tokyo Broadcasting System / BS-TBS (animeism). Amazone Prime will be the exclusive streamer in Japan. Funimation will be streaming “LISTENERS”on the FunimationNow platform, simul-cast assumed until we know otherwise.
Source: Official LISTENERS Website