{"id":31112,"date":"2026-06-28T04:13:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T08:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/design-providers.com\/rise\/wit-studios-new-original-anime-reveals-lona-title-brain-analyzing-premise-spring-2027-start-date\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T04:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T08:13:10","slug":"wit-studios-new-original-anime-reveals-lona-title-brain-analyzing-premise-spring-2027-start-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/design-providers.com\/rise\/wit-studios-new-original-anime-reveals-lona-title-brain-analyzing-premise-spring-2027-start-date\/","title":{"rendered":"WIT STUDIO&#8217;s New Original Anime Reveals LONA Title, Brain-Analyzing Premise, Spring 2027 Start Date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px\"><strong>WIT STUDIO<\/strong>\u2018s countdown for its upcoming <strong>Takashi Katagiri<\/strong>-directed\u00a0(<em>Spy x Family: Code White<\/em>\u00a0director,\u00a0<em>Spy x Family<\/em>\u00a0Season 1 and<em>\u00a0Bubble<\/em> co-assistant director) original anime has ended with the reveal of its title and premise, a teaser trailer and teaser commercial, three teaser visuals, and a spring 2027 broadcast start window. The title is<em> LONA<\/em>, short for <em>Laboratory of Optics and Neural Analysis<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">One of the teaser visuals depicts four people in a facility, with one of them seemingly floating within a giant, bubble-like sphere. The teaser trailer provides a closer look at the cast of characters, whose voice actors include\u00a0<span class=\"fz-32-32 font-noto font-medium en:font-en en:font-semibold w-fit leading-trim-[1.5]\"><strong>Minako Kotobuki<\/strong> as <\/span><span style=\"color: initial\">Ao, <span class=\"fz-32-32 font-noto font-medium en:font-en en:font-semibold w-fit leading-trim-[1.5]\"><strong>Anna Nagase<\/strong> as <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: initial\">Sango, and <span class=\"fz-32-32 font-noto font-medium en:font-en en:font-semibold w-fit leading-trim-[1.5]\"><strong>Fuka Izumi<\/strong> as Mugen. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">As for the premise, it will involve the titular LONA analyzing the brains of deceased people as humanity faces an undead threat in the near future.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"font-noto en:font-inter font-medium fz-24-24 leading-[1.9] tracking-[0.12em] fmb-42-38 relative fmt-70-70 leading-trim-[1.5] en:tracking-[0.05em]\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">Here\u2019s the synopsis:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"font-noto en:font-inter font-medium fz-24-24 leading-[1.9] tracking-[0.12em] fmb-42-38 relative fmt-70-70 leading-trim-[1.5] en:tracking-[0.05em]\" style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">A broken world in the not-so distant future.<\/span><\/em><br \/><em><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">Humanity is facing a new incident.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"font-noto en:font-inter font-medium fz-24-24 leading-[1.9] tracking-[0.12em] fmb-50-50 leading-trim-[1.9] en:tracking-[0.05em]\" style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">The government has decided to request a specialized organization to deal with this situation.<\/span><\/em><br \/><em><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">The Laboratory of Optics and Neural Analysis, commonly known as \u201cLONA.\u201d<\/span><\/em><br \/><em><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">Researcher Ao and her apprentice Sango will try to get to the bottom of the mystery by analyzing the brains of the dead.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px\"><span style=\"color: initial\"><span class=\"fz-32-32 font-noto font-medium en:font-en en:font-semibold w-fit leading-trim-[1.5]\">Besides Katagiri, the production credits include:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">\u2022 Original story and scriptwriter: <span style=\"color: initial\"><strong>Akiko Nogi<\/strong> (<em>Sayonara Robinson Crusoe<\/em> scriptwriter)<br \/>\u2022 <span class=\"fz-16-16 font-noto font-semibold en:font-en en:font-black rounded-full b-2 sm:b-1 w-fit px-0.75em fmb-14-14 h-fit grid place-content-center undefined\"><span class=\"block -mt-[1px] md:en:mt-[1px] sm:mt-[0px] sm:en:mt-[1px]\">Original character designer: <span class=\"fz-32-32 font-noto font-medium en:font-en en:font-semibold w-fit leading-trim-[1.5]\"><strong>Posuka Demizu<\/strong> (<em>The Promised Neverland<\/em> manga artist)<br \/>\u2022 Character designer: <strong>Yudai In<span style=\"font-size: 16px\">o<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px\"> (<em>The Devil is a Part-Timer!!<\/em>)<\/span><br \/>\u2022 Sub-character designer: <strong>Ayumi Yamada<\/strong><br \/>\u2022 Sub-character designer: <strong>Keisuke Okura<\/strong><br \/>\u2022 Image designe<span style=\"font-size: 16px\">r: illustrator and animator <strong>syo5<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">\u2022 Background art setting and mechanical designer: <strong>Satoshi Takabatake<\/strong> (<em>Vampire in the Garde<\/em><em>n<\/em>)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">\u2022 Background art setting and mechanical designer: <strong>Kazushi Fujii<\/strong> (<em>Vampire in the Garde<\/em><em>n<\/em>)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">\u2022 Background art director: <strong>Yumiko Kuga<\/strong> (<em>Deaimon<\/em>)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">\u2022 Compositing director: <strong>Kentaro Minegishi<\/strong> (<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><em>The Dangers in My Heart<\/em> co-compositing director<span style=\"color: initial\"><span class=\"fz-16-16 font-noto font-semibold en:font-en en:font-black rounded-full b-2 sm:b-1 w-fit px-0.75em fmb-14-14 h-fit grid place-content-center undefined\"><span class=\"block -mt-[1px] md:en:mt-[1px] sm:mt-[0px] sm:en:mt-[1px]\"><span class=\"fz-32-32 font-noto font-medium en:font-en en:font-semibold w-fit leading-trim-[1.5]\">)<br \/>\u2022 Compositing director: <strong>Miori Miyagi<\/strong> (<em>Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- <\/em>Season 3 and 4)<br \/>\u2022 Color designer: <strong>Kanami Tanaka<\/strong> (<em>Spy x Family: Code White<\/em>)<br \/>\u2022 Music composer; <strong>Hiroko Sebu<\/strong>\u00a0<br \/>\u2022 Animation producer: <\/span><\/span><\/span><strong>Kazuki Yamanaka<\/strong> (<span class=\"fz-16-16 font-noto font-semibold en:font-en en:font-black rounded-full b-2 sm:b-1 w-fit px-0.75em fmb-14-14 h-fit grid place-content-center undefined\"><span class=\"block -mt-[1px] md:en:mt-[1px] sm:mt-[0px] sm:en:mt-[1px]\"><span class=\"fz-32-32 font-noto font-medium en:font-en en:font-semibold w-fit leading-trim-[1.5]\"><em>Spy x Family: Code White<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span>,<em> Bubble<\/em>)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">WIT STUDIO is credited for planning in addition to animation production.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px\"><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/lona-animation.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>LONA<\/em> website<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WIT STUDIO\u2018s countdown for its upcoming Takashi Katagiri-directed\u00a0(Spy x Family: Code White\u00a0director,\u00a0Spy x Family\u00a0Season 1 and\u00a0Bubble co-assistant director) original anime has ended with the reveal of its title and premise, a teaser trailer and teaser commercial, three teaser visuals, and a spring 2027 broadcast start window. 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