Toei Animation's World Trigger REBOOT Project has unveiled its first teaser for the Black Trigger Capture Arc, with director Morio Hatano, composer Hiroyuki Yoshino and the original lead voice cast all returning.
Toei Animation has unveiled the first teaser for the World Trigger REBOOT Project, confirming that the new adaptation will open with the Black Trigger Capture Arc. The April 26 reveal also locked in the main creative staff and confirmed that the principal voice cast from the original series is returning in full.
Rather than full animation, the teaser leans on freshly drawn character model sheets paired with the names of the returning staff and cast. The footage frames the project as a clean restart: the REBOOT will re-adapt Daisuke Ashihara's manga from Chapter 1, beginning with the Black Trigger Capture Arc, the storyline that originally covered episodes 7 to 16 of the 2014 anime's first season. Subsequent arcs, including the Border Enlistment Arc, the Large-Scale Invasion Arc and the B-Rank Wars Arc, are slated to follow as newly produced animation.
Toei Animation, which handled the second and third seasons of the original anime run, is back in the production seat for the reboot.
Morio Hatano, who directed the second and third seasons, returns as series director. Hiroyuki Yoshino, who served as series composer on seasons 2 and 3 and on the first half of season 1, is again handling series composition. Toshihisa Kaiya, co-credited on character design for the original first season, is back as character designer.
The core voice cast is unchanged:
Tomo Muranaka as Yūma Kuga
Yuki Kaji as Osamu Mikumo
Nao Tamura as Chika Amatori
Yuichi Nakamura as Yūichi Jin
Hideyuki Tanaka as Replica
Keeping the entire main quartet plus Replica intact is a notable choice for a full reboot. It preserves the vocal identity that long-time fans associate with Border's A-Rank and B-Rank squads, even as the visual production is rebuilt from scratch.
Alongside the teaser, Toei announced two "Anime WORLD TRIGGER Exhibition REBOOT" events. The Tokyo run is scheduled for August 11 to September 1 at Sunshine City Exhibition Hall C in Ikebukuro, followed by an Osaka leg from November 14 to December 6 at the ATC ITM building. The exhibitions are expected to display production materials including the new character designs first glimpsed in the teaser.
A broadcast window, episode count and streaming partners have not yet been disclosed. The original World Trigger anime ran on TV Asahi affiliates, and its later seasons streamed internationally on Crunchyroll, but no platform has confirmed pickup of the reboot at the time of writing.
The original 2014 adaptation built a sizeable global following but was famously uneven in its pacing across its three seasons, partly because the source manga has been on extended hiatuses tied to author Daisuke Ashihara's health. A from-scratch retelling gives Toei a chance to align the anime with the manga's now-substantially-expanded storyline and to produce key arcs at modern broadcast quality.
For Indian fans, the original series remains available on Crunchyroll's catalogue. Whether the reboot lands on Crunchyroll India at launch will depend on Toei's licensing deal once a premiere date is set.
The immediate next beats to watch for are a confirmed broadcast quarter, a key visual or full-motion trailer, and the announcement of the streaming home for the new series. The Tokyo exhibition in August is a likely venue for further reveals.
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