The official Twitter account for the franchise revealed on Saturday that the new character in the trailer is Robin, as voiced by Kappei Yamaguchi. Masayuki Ozaki, a producer for Tiger & Bunny at the anime studio Sunrise, revealed during the Tiger & Bunny panel at Anime Expo last Saturday that a new NEXT character will appear in the first film. Original character designer Masakazu Katsura created the character.