{"id":4457,"date":"2026-06-29T10:26:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T02:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gametrader.sg\/blog\/lona-wit-studio-original-anime-spring-2027\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T10:26:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T02:26:13","slug":"lona-wit-studio-original-anime-spring-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gametrader.sg\/blog\/lona-wit-studio-original-anime-spring-2027\/","title":{"rendered":"LONA: WIT Studio Assembles a Dream Team for Spring 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"

WIT Studio dropped a major announcement on June 28: LONA<\/strong>, an original TV anime slated for Spring 2027<\/strong> \u2014 and the creative team they’ve assembled is one of the most exciting in recent anime memory. The combination of names alone is enough to put this on every list, long before a single episode airs.<\/p>\n

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Image courtesy of WIT Studio<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What LONA Is About<\/h2>\n

LONA stands for Laboratory of Optics and Neural Analysis<\/em>. Set in the near future, the series follows researchers at this facility who analyze the brains of deceased people using synchrotron light \u2014 a real technology inspired by the SPring-8 synchrotron radiation facility<\/a> operated by RIKEN in Harima Science Garden City, Hyogo, Japan. Their mission: uncover the truth behind a disturbing new phenomenon in which people believed dead are suddenly reappearing and attacking the living.<\/p>\n

Think the institutional precision of Unnatural<\/em> \u2014 cold case meets cutting-edge science \u2014 but transplanted into a world where the stakes have gone fully apocalyptic. The confirmed voice cast leading the lab is Minako Kotobuki<\/strong> as head researcher Ao, Anna Nagase<\/strong> as trainee researcher Sango, and Fuka Izumi<\/strong> as Mugen, the facility’s unconventional mascot. The ensemble key visual already signals the tone: a gloriously chaotic lab \u2014 equipment everywhere, staff in various states of crisis \u2014 suggesting a show that can be funny and frightening in the same scene.<\/p>\n

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Image courtesy of WIT Studio<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The People Behind It<\/h2>\n

Every credit here is a genuine reason for excitement.<\/p>\n

Original concept and screenplay: Akiko Nogi.<\/strong> Her breakthrough came writing Unnatural<\/em> (2018), a forensic mystery series celebrated for its meticulous plotting and deep empathy. She then wrote Last Mile<\/em> (2024), a logistics-thriller film that earned widespread acclaim for its tight structure and humane core. LONA<\/em> is her first anime original. Nogi’s instinct is to build genre tension out of institutional truth \u2014 the way real systems handle (and mishandle) death \u2014 and a premise involving brain-scanning the dead lands squarely in that territory.<\/p>\n

Director: Takashi Katagiri<\/strong>, whose work on SPY\u00d7FAMILY CODE: White<\/em> demonstrated a sure hand with large ensemble casts and tonal range. Character design: Posuka Demizu<\/strong> \u2014 the artist behind The Promised Neverland<\/em> manga \u2014 whose work gives even mundane expressions an uncanny interior quality, perfectly matched to a show about reading what people leave behind. The teaser poster alone, a hyper-stylized eye close-up bathed in neon purple, shows Demizu operating in full Promised Neverland<\/em> mode.<\/p>\n

Studio: WIT Studio<\/strong> (Attack on Titan Seasons 1\u20133, SPY\u00d7FAMILY, Vinland Saga). Animation producer Kazuki Yamanaka<\/strong> (SPY\u00d7FAMILY, Bubble) and composer Y\u016bko S\u00e9bu<\/strong> complete the lineup. Director Katagiri’s words in the announcement, as reported by Anime Corner<\/a>, capture the energy well: “Something that happens only once in a lifetime happened to me. I got to create an anime from a script written by Akiko Nogi.”<\/p>\n

Watch the Teaser PV<\/h2>\n
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