Takashi Katagiri is the director of the anime.
WIT Studio, known for their amazing original anime series including The Great Pretender, Moonrise, and Love Through a Prism, is bringing another original project to the screens. The new anime, titled “LONA” (Laboratory of Optics and Neural Analysis), has been announced with a trailer and key visuals. The series will debut sometime in Spring 2027.
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LONA
Premiere window: Spring 2027
Animation studio: WIT Studio
Director: Takashi Katagiri
What do we know about LONA so far?
Takashi Katagiri directs the anime at WIT Studio with Akiko Nogi as the screenplay writer. Posuka Demizu is in charge of the original character designs.
Other staff members include:
- Animation Character Designer: Yudai Iino
- Sub-Character Designers: Ayumi Yamada, Keisuke Okura
- Image Designer: syo5
- Art Setting/Mechanical Designers: Satoshi Takabatake, Kazushi Fujii
- Art Director: Yumiko Kuga
- CG Director: Shigenori Hirozumi
- Directors of Photography: Kentaro Minegishi, Miori Miyagi
- Editor: Kiyoshi Hirose
- Colour Designer: Kanami Tanaka
- Sound Director: Shoji Hata
- Music Composer: Hiroko Sebu
- Animation Producer: Kazuki Yamanaka
The main cast of the anime includes:
- Minako Kotobuki as Ao
- Anna Nagase as Sango
- Fūka Izumi as Mugen
New key visuals for the anime have been revealed as well:
What is LONA about?
WIT Studio describes the sci-fi anime’s story as (machine translated):
In a broken world in a not-so distant future
Humanity is facing a new crisis.
“We were attacked by people who should be dead.”
The government entrusted the handling of this situation to a specialized organization: the Laboratory of Optics and Neural Analysis, or "LONA" for short.
Researcher Ao and apprentice Sango begin to unravel the mystery by analyzing the brains of the deceased.
What thoughts and memories do people have before they die ? The countless memories
etched into their neural circuits. What did they see in the depths of their being ?