Strike Witches 501 Butai Hasshinshimasu! Anime Reveals
Staff, Spring 2019 Debut
The official website for the Strike Witches franchise revealed the staff and
spring 2019 premiere for the anime adaptation of Makoto Fujibayashi's Strike
Witches 501 Butai Hasshinshimasu! (Strike Witches 501st Unit, Taking
Off!) manga on Tuesday.
Fumio Ito (episode director for Rage of Bahamut Genesis, School-Live!, Kino's Journey - The Beautiful World) is directing the anime
at acca effe and Giga Production, with Production I.G and Anime Beans credited for collaborating on animation
production. Shinya Murakami (Strike Witches 2, Strike Witches: Operation Victory Arrow, High School Fleet) returns for series
literature. Seikou Nagaoka also returns to compose the
music, with Nippon Columbia credited for music
production. Other returning staff members include sound director Tomohiro Yoshida at Glovision and producer Takashi Tachizaki.
The anime will
air on television and will stream online. Humikane
Shimada and Projekt Kagonish are credited with the original work.
The anime will
star:
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Misato Fukuen as Yoshika Miyafuji
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Saori Seto as Mio Sakamoto
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Kaori Nazuka as Lynette Bishop
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Miyuki Sawashiro as Perrine-H. Clostermann
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Rie Tanaka as Minna-Dietlinde Wilcke
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Mie Sonozaki as Gertrud Barkhorn
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Sakura Nogawa as Erica Hartmann
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Chiwa Saito as Francesca Lucchini
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Ami Koshimizu as Charlotte E Yeager
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Mai Kadowaki as Sanya V. Litvyak
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Ayuru Ōhashi as Eila Ilmatar
Juutilainen
Fujibayashi
published the manga in Kadokawa's 4-Koma Nano Ace magazine starting in
2012. Kadokawapublished
the manga's second and final compiled volume in October 2012. Kadokawa also
published two volumes of the Strike
Witches Gekijōban 501 Butai Hasshinshimasu! manga in
2014 and 2016. The manga ran in 4-Koma
Nano Ace from 2013-2016.
The manga
follows the silly everyday lives of the members of the 501st unit, as they cook
and clean and do other everyday tasks when there's a lull in the Neuroi
attacks.
The franchise's story centers
on an alien invasion by beings known as the Neuroi. The only way to damage and
ultimately defeat them lies in Witches, girls who possess magical powers and
are capable of wielding Striker Units that enhances their abilities and allow
them to maneuver in the air. The characters in the franchise are
often based on real-life aerial aces from various nationalities.
The series is
based on illustrator Humikane Shimada's mecha-girl illustrations, and Shimada is credited as the original
creator and character designer for the franchise. The mixed-media franchise began
with a manga in 2005, and a light novel series in 2006, both of which focus on
different characters from the eventual Strike Witches anime. The anime
premiered in 2008, and it spawned a sequel, a film, and OVA series.
The franchise also
spawned the Brave Witches anime in October 2016, as well as numerous spinoff manga,
novels, and games.
The new Strike Witches: Road to Berlin TV anime will premiere in
2020, and the new Idol
Witches (temporary title) TV anime will premiere in
2021.
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