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Crunchyroll to Stream GATE Anime
posted on by Karen Ressler
Crunchyroll announced on Thursday that it will stream the anime GATE (Gate: Jiei-tai Ka no Chi ni te, Kaku Tatakaeri) as it airs in Japan. The stream will premiere on July 3 at 1:00 p.m. EDT.
The stream will be available in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Latin America, Europe (excluding French and French-speaking territories), the Middle East, and North Africa.
The anime adapts Takumi Yanai's light novel series of the same name.
The military fantasy series begins when a GATE appears in Tokyo's Ginza district sometime in the 21st century. From the GATE pours out monsters, knights from middle-age Europe, and other fantasy-like beings, and they kill many of the citizens of Tokyo. This event is known as the Ginza Incident.
The government sends a small group of soldiers from the Japanese Self-Defense Forces to the alternate world beyond the GATE. Led by otaku soldier Yōji (voiced by Junichi Suwabe), they find that the villages in the world are being attacked by a dragon. An elf girl (Hisako Kanemoto) who is a survivor from the dragon's rampage joins the group in their travels across the dangerous new world.
Takahiko Kyōgoku (Love Live! School idol project) is directing the series at A-1 Pictures with series composition by Tatsuhiko Urahata (A-Channel, Black Bullet). Jun Nakai (Silver Spoon, The Sacred Blacksmith) is designing the characters, and Yoshiaki Fujisawa (Love Live! School idol project, The Eccentric Family) is composing the music. Yukio Nagasaki (Love Live! School idol project, Yona of the Dawn) is serving as sound director, and GENCO is producing the series.
