Sanda anime‘s official website has just unveiled the official trailer for the upcoming anime that confirms opening and ending theme song details.
yama will perform the opening theme song “Childlike Adults” and Soushi Sakiyama will perform the ending theme song “Diary.”
The anime also unveiled a new key visual.
The anime’s cast include:
- Toshihiko Seki as Hifumi Ōshibu
- Hiroaki Hirata as Saburō Yagiuda
- Ayumu Murase as Kazushige Sanda
- Hiroki Tōchi as Santa Claus
- Umeka Shōji as Shiori Fuyumura
- Anna Nagase as Ichie Ono
- Yūki Shin as Hitoshi Amaya
- Misato Matsuoka as Nico Kazao
Sanda anime is set to premiere on October 3, 2025.
The streaming giant Amazon Prime Video will exclusively stream the upcoming Sanda anime series worldwide, from October 4 at 2:53 a.m. JST time.
Staff of the anime include:
- Tomohisa Shimoyama as Director
- Animation Studio: Science SARU
- Kimiko Ueno as Script Supervisor
- Masamichi Ishiyama as Character Designer, and Chief Animation Director
- Tomoyuki Tanaka as Music Composer
Sanda is a Japanese manga crafted and drawn by Paru Itagaki. It ran in Akita Shoten’s Weekly Shōnen Champion, a shōnen manga magazine, from July 2021 to July 2024, with its chapters compiled into 16 tankōbon volumes.
Set in a future Japan grappling with a sharply declining birth rate, the story follows Kazushige Sanda, a young man discovered by his classmate Shiori Fuyumura to be a descendant of Santa Claus. The duo embarks on a quest to locate Fuyumura’s missing friend, Ichie Ono.