Moonrise is a 2025 Japanese animated series that sets a crime-and-conspiracy story against a war between Earth and the Moon, built around a carefree heir whose name is suddenly tied to an attack on Earth.
What is Moonrise about?
Jack Shadow has grown up with little to worry about, until rebel forces strike Earth and the investigation turns toward him. Named the prime suspect, the carefree heir finds that his family name no longer protects him, and the way forward is to join a special military unit bound for the Moon, where the person who really planned the attack is believed to be hiding. What follows moves between war thriller and personal drama, tracing how suspicion follows a young man into uniform and how he decides which parts of an inherited story he is willing to carry. The register stays close to the soldiers rather than the politics, with the larger conflict between Earth and the Moon pressing on the edges of each mission.
About the cast
The Japanese voice cast is led by Chiaki Kobayashi as Jack Shadow and Yuto Uemura as Phil Ash, with Kosuke Takaguchi, Satoshi Yamaguchi, Arisa Kori, Yuka Terasaki, Yu Kobayashi and Katsunori Okai completing the ensemble. The remaining names appear here in catalogue order rather than by character. The material gives the group a register that mixes bravado with restraint, so much of the tension sits in pauses, in half-finished sentences, and in what the soldiers decline to say aloud.
Context & significance
Moonrise is credited to Masashi Koizuka and Yasuhiro Akamatsu and is catalogued as a 2025 production from Japan, animated at Wit Studio from an original concept by novelist Tow Ubukata, with character designs by manga artist Hiromu Arakawa. Its genre tags span crime, drama, noir, romance and thriller, a wide spread that fairly describes how the series moves: the hunt for the mastermind supplies the frame, the lunar setting supplies the atmosphere, and the drama strands supply most of the scenes. Episodes run about 26 minutes each across an 18-episode season. It sits in a long line of Japanese science-fiction stories where a war is less a backdrop than a condition the characters live inside.
Watching Moonrise on Ktime
Moonrise streams on K-Time with both a Persian dub and Persian subtitles, so you can choose the original audio with Farsi text or the dubbed track depending on who is watching with you. This page stays open to read without signing in; starting playback is the step that needs a K-Time account login. The interface runs in Farsi throughout, which keeps browsing, search and playback settings familiar for Persian-speaking households abroad.