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Strike Witches' Takamura Launches Vividred Operation Anime (Update 2)

The July issue of ASCII Media Works' Dengeki G's Magazine is announcing on Wednesday that Strike Witches director Kazuhiro Takamura is launching a new anime project called Vividred Operation.

Japanese production company Aniplex had registered the domain name vividred.net on April 15.

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Update: The official website for the upcoming "original new animation project" collaboration between Dengeki G's Magazine and Aniplex gave the following clues:

• The theme is "friendship"?
• The heroine is a 14-year-old girl
• The director is also designing the characters
• The genre is "girl science-fiction action"
• There are five main heroines
• The heroine lives with her little sister and grandfather
• The heroine's family live an impoverished life in various ways
• Overseeing the series scripts is the director and the main writer
• There is a mecha designer in the main staff
• It is a peaceful world where science has solved all problems
• The story is set on an island teeming with natural surroundings, and an artificial island built by science
• The anime cutely depicts girls who strive to do their best
• The mecha designer has also been responsible for original character designs on other works
• The main writer and mecha designer have worked together on a project (or projects) in the past
• The main writer has created a manga's original story and other roles in manga
• There is a nickname that fans have given the director

Update 2: The inside of the magazine confirms the following staff:

• Planning/Producing: Aniplex
• In Cooperation With: Dengeki G's Magazine
• Director/Character Designer: Kazuhiro Takamura (Strike Witches)
• Series Script Editor: Hiroyuki Yoshino (Macross Frontier, Guilty Crown), Kazuhiro Takamura
• Animation Production: A-1 Pictures (The IDOLM@STER, anohana)

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  Update: The official website has opened.