Toei Animation announced today that Girls Band Cry, the original TV anime series from the studio, will head to streaming outlets in North America beginning August 13, 2024.The series will be available via Fandango at Home, Microsoft, Amazon Prime Video and Hoopla.
Kazuo Sakai directed Girls Band Cry at animation studio Toei Animation, with Jukki Hanada providing the series composition, Nari Teshima on the character designs and Kenji Tamai as composter. The series originally broadcast in Japan from April to June 2024 with 13 episodes.The story of Girls Band Cry is described as follows:
The main character drops out of high school in her second year, and aims at entering a university while working alone in Tokyo.A girl is betrayed by her friends and doesn’t know what to do.Another girl is abandoned by her parents, and tries to survive in the city by doing part-time jobs.This world lets us down all the time.Nothing goes as planned.But we want something that we can continue to like.We believe there’s a place where we belong. That’s why we sing.
Source: Toei Animation on X (formerly Twitter)
