The official website for the television anime of Makoto Fukami and Seigo Tokiya's Magical
Girl Special Ops Asuka (MahÅ ShÅjo TokushÅ«sen Asuka) manga revealed designs for Tamara Volkova and Rau Peipei on December
25.
The
anime will premiere on the "Animeism" programming block.
The show will air on MBS and TBS on January 11 at 26:25 (effectively January 12 at 2:25 a.m.),
before airing later on BS-TBS, AT-X, and CBC. The anime will stream in Japan only on Amazon Prime Video. The site did not specify the streaming services for outside of
Japan.
Hideyo Yamamoto (Strike the Blood, Code:Realize
-Guardian of Rebirth-) is directing the series at LIDEN FILMS (The Heroic Legend of
Arslan, Terra Formars). Makoto
Fukami (Berserk, Yuruyuri
San Hai!) and Norimitsu KaihÅ (School-Live!, Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak
High School: Despair Arc) are in charge of series composition, and Yoko Suzuki (animation director for Bleach, Polar Bear's Café) is designing the
characters. R.O.N (FLCL Alternative, Kuroko's Basketball) is composing the music.
nonoc is
performing the opening theme song "KODO," and music group GARNiDELiA is performing the ending theme song "Rebel Flag."
Seven Seas Entertainment licensed the manga series in English, and it released the
fourth compiled book volume on September 25. The company describes the story:
When the Earth
is threatened by the sudden appearance of undead creatures, a group of young
women blessed with powers from a mysterious source rose to defeat them. Now,
after three years of apparent peace, the same malevolent creatures have
resurfaced. Five magical girls are once again conscripted to war as the Magical
Girl Special-Ops force, to defend mankind from an unholy nemesis.
M.A.O as Tamara
Volkova
YÅko Hikasa as Rau
Peipei
The
cast also includes:
·
Aya Suzaki as Asuka Åtorii, or
Magical Girl Rapture Asuka
·
Akira Sekine as Kurumi Mugen, or
Magical Girl War Nurse Kurumi
·
Eriko Matsui as Mia Cyrus, or Magical
Girl Just Cause Mia
·
Ayana Taketatsu as Chisato Yonamine
·
Chinami Hashimoto as Sayako Hata
·
Rie Takahashi as Nozomi Makino
·
Kenji Nomura as Yoshiaki Iizuka
·
Kokoro Kikuchi as Sacchū
Fukami
(Psycho-Pass script) writes the
series, and Tokiya (Teizokurei Monophobia) provides the art. Naoya Tamura collaborates on the military setting. The creative team launched the
series in Square Enix's Monthly Big Gangan magazine in June
2015, and Square
Enix shipped the ninth volume shipped on December 25.
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