Entertainment service company KUROGO, with support from publisher Kodansha’s Creative’s Lab, has launched SYNXRO PROJECT, a new initiative that revolves around opening animations of fictional anime. The project hopes to build new IPs out of these openings, and will release a new work for each remaining month of 2026.
The profits from SYNXRO PROJECT’s song releases, as well as other developments like manga and goods, will be shared with the respective creatives.
The first such animation has been released on YouTube and features the song “Glass no World’s End,” performed by Hitomitoi. DÉ DÉ MOUSE wrote and composed the song.
Manga artist and illustrator Ken Sogen (BETTER THAN SEX, Nakano Boogie-Boogie) is credited as the original creator. pre_sktch drew the storyboards and animation, while Wontama handled the compositing and editing.
The first opening’s fictional anime, Ishokushokushokuju, follows the amnesiac 13-year-old girl Hotaru, who travels with a mobile food stall in a world ruined by war (caused by global warning and resource exhaustion) and dreams of resurrecting ramen. The synopsis also teases a “certain plan” hidden by the world.
Source: Press release (PR Times)
