During the encore of the concert YUI MAKINO LIVE―Thanx Beginning♪― (held on January 22 at Ebisu the Garden Hall) the singer announced that her new single Reset will be released the following summer. The song will be used as the opening theme for the upcoming Spring 2017 anime Sagrada Reset.

Did you know: Makino is also going to play a character in Sagrada Reset!

Makino Yui at New York Anime Festival 2009 | This image is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.

The song was written especially for the anime by Shunsuke Takizawa. The two were classmates at Tokyo College of Music. The piano parts of the song were composed and performed by Makino herself!

MANGA.TOKYO will be back with more information as soon as we have it!

Comment from Yui Makino

‘I’m happy not just to be a member of the cast, but to also provide the opening theme for this series. I’m ecstatic to be able to play the piano in this one. I tried to replicate the atmosphere from the recording of the anime in this song. I think I managed to give the song the same feeling of the anime, so I hop you’ll look forward to it.’

TV Anime ‘Sagrada Reset’ Introduction

In the town of Sagrada, half the population possesses unique powers. Its inhabitants live in peace, with the special powers observed by the Administration Bureau.

I want to erase the tears of the person in front of me. I want my voice to reach somebody.

The town’s powers were born to grant kind, tender wishes such as these. Kei Asai has the power of ‘Memory Keep’, which allows the him to fully remember past experiences. Misora Haruki has the power of ‘Reset’, which can make the world go back up to 3 days.

When Misora uses this power, she herself also loses her memories of the time before the Reset, but she teams up with Kei, who will not forget no matter what happens. Together they can remake the past and change the present.

However, there is a ‘past’ that they cannot change. 2 years before, Kei’s classmate, Sumire Souma, was lost thanks to the effect of a Reset. Kei and Misora spend their days as part of the ‘Volunteer Club’ , where they fulfil requests from other students. At the same time, they search for a way to bring back Sumire. They suddenly get a very unexpected request: ‘I want you to bring back my dead cat.’

In order to erase the ‘sadness’ of the past, this boy and girl will jump through time, changing the world.

TV Anime Sagrada Reset

Official Site: http://sagrada-anime.com/
Official Twitter: @sagrada_anime

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