WIT STUDIO‘s countdown for its upcoming Takashi Katagiri-directed (Spy x Family: Code White director, Spy x Family Season 1 and Bubble co-assistant director) original anime has ended with the reveal of its title and premise, a teaser trailer and teaser commercial, three teaser visuals, and a spring 2027 broadcast start window. The title is LONA, short for Laboratory of Optics and Neural Analysis.
One of the teaser visuals depicts four people in a facility, with one of them seemingly floating within a giant, bubble-like sphere. The teaser trailer provides a closer look at the cast of characters, whose voice actors include Minako Kotobuki as Ao, Anna Nagase as Sango, and Fuka Izumi as Mugen.
As for the premise, it will involve the titular LONA analyzing the brains of deceased people as humanity faces an undead threat in the near future.
Here’s the synopsis:
A broken world in the not-so distant future.
Humanity is facing a new incident.
“We’re being attacked
by humans who should be dead.”
The government has decided to request a specialized organization to deal with this situation.
The Laboratory of Optics and Neural Analysis, commonly known as “LONA.”
Researcher Ao and her apprentice Sango will try to get to the bottom of the mystery by analyzing the brains of the dead.
What do people think of, and what do they leave behind before they die?
Countless memories engraved in the neural circuits.
What did they see in those deep depths?
Besides Katagiri, the production credits include:
• Original story and scriptwriter: Akiko Nogi (Sayonara Robinson Crusoe scriptwriter)
• Original character designer: Posuka Demizu (The Promised Neverland manga artist)
• Character designer: Yudai Ino (The Devil is a Part-Timer!!)
• Sub-character designer: Ayumi Yamada
• Sub-character designer: Keisuke Okura
• Image designer: illustrator and animator syo5
• Background art setting and mechanical designer: Satoshi Takabatake (Vampire in the Garden)
• Background art setting and mechanical designer: Kazushi Fujii (Vampire in the Garden)
• Background art director: Yumiko Kuga (Deaimon)
• Compositing director: Kentaro Minegishi (The Dangers in My Heart co-compositing director)
• Compositing director: Miori Miyagi (Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 3 and 4)
• Color designer: Kanami Tanaka (Spy x Family: Code White)
• Music composer; Hiroko Sebu
• Animation producer: Kazuki Yamanaka (Spy x Family: Code White, Bubble)
WIT STUDIO is credited for planning in addition to animation production.
Source: LONA website
