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General Information
Director: Takuya Sato
Original Character Designer: Yoshitoshi Abe
Series Composition: Kenji Konuta
Anime Character Designer: Kouji Watanabe
Music: Maiko Iuchi
Sound Director: Yukio Nagasaki
Music Production: KADOKAWA
Sound Production: HALF HP STUDIO
Anime Production: Geek Toys
Production: RErideD partners

The year is 2050. A young engineer named Derrida Yvain became famous thanks to his contribution to the development of the "Autonomous Machine DZ" at Rebuild, the manufacturing company founded by his father. One day, Derrida and his colleague Nathan discover a flaw in the DZs and try to warn their boss, but are ignored. Although Derrida and Nathan are aware of the danger, they reluctantly decide to put off taking any measures, and instead go to Nathan's daughter Mage's birthday party. The next day, after enjoying a peaceful day, Derrida and Nathan are suddenly attacked by unknown forces. At the end of the escape, Derrida falls into a cold sleep machine and 10 years later, he wakes up to a devastated world in the middle of a war. While Derrida is attacked by a group of out of control DZs, he almost gives up, but he recall's Nathan's last words.
'Take care of Mage.'

Despite the harsh fate that has fallen upon him, Derrida sets off to seek Mage.

Beyond the time, we reunite - this is the story of a journey for hope.

Announced last year as Project D, RErideD will be produced by Geek Toys and directed by Steins;Gate director Tatsuya Sato. Not only that, Yoshitoshi Abe is behind the character designs. Now if you are unfamiliar with the name, he was the character designer for Serial Experiment Lain and Texhnolyze, and going by the combination of these two people, I believe we will be in for quite the gritty treat. As no release date has been let slip, only that it will be some time this year, I would go to assume that the series will not begin airing until Fall of this year, although I would like to think that the series may come as a 2-cour opposed to a 1-cour series which seems to have slowly been becoming the standard.

I am a great fan of the time travel genre and the theory behind it, and with the two aforementioned staff working on it, this is something that I am going to be looking forward to.

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