Scheduled to premiere in January 2024, the anime series’ official twitter Metallic Rouge has put this special AMV dubbed “Crimson Lightning” online.
The animation is from the studio Bones (Mob Psycho, My Hero Academia, Bungou Stray Dogs), directed by Motonobu Hori (Carole & Tuesday), the story is of Yutaka Izubuchi (Mobile Police Patlabor mecha designer, Star Blazers 2199, RahXephon), character design is by Toshihiro Kawamoto (Cowboy Bebop) and the music is the responsibility of Taisei Iwasaki (BELLE).
- Special effects director: Yasushi Muraki
- Gladiator Project: Takayuki Takeya, Tamotsu Shinohara
- Mechanical design: Tomoyuki Hirao
- Product design: Kazutaka Miyatake
- Scenography: Shingo Takeba, Yasushi Ishizu
- Costume design cooperation: Akihiro Yamada
- Art Director: Takuya Ebisawa
- Color design: Hiroko Umezaki
- Director of Photography: Masataka Ikegami
- 3DCG Supervisor: Yoshikazu Kon
- 3DCG Director: Daiki Uchida
- Scenario Investigation: Mitsuyasu Sakai
- Cultural Investigation: Katsuie Shibata
- Sound Director: Haru Yamada
Synopsis of Metallic Rouge
The “tech noir” anime takes place in a world where humans and androids coexist. The story follows Rouge, an android girl, who is on a mission to Mars with her partner Naomi. The mission is to assassinate nine artificial humans who are hostile to the government.