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Sirius the Jaeger Anime's TV Ads Streamed

The official website for P.A. Works' original television anime project Sirius the Jaeger began streaming new 30-second and 15-second television commercials on Friday. The videos preview Kishida Kyōdan & The Akeboshi Rockets' opening theme song "Sirius."

The website also revealed that the anime will have an advance screening at Tokyo's Shinjuku Piccadilly 3 theater on July 6. The event will screen the anime's first two episodes and include a 30-minute talk show with voice actors. Cast members Yūto Uemura, Nanako Mori, Yūsuke Kobayashi, and Rie Takahashi will attend.

Los Angeles' Anime Expo convention will host the anime's United States premiere on July 7.

The anime will premiere on AT-X on July 12 at 11:00 p.m., then on Tokyo MX and BS11 at 11:30 p.m. The show will air later that evening on Tulip TV.

The official English website for the series describes the story:

Imperial Capital, 1930.
A strange group of people carrying musical instrument cases landed on Tokyo station.
They are called the “Jaegers”, who came to hunt vampires.
Amongst them, there stood a young man with striking serenity and unusual aura.
His name is Yuliy, a werewolf whose home village was destroyed by vampires.
Yuliy and the Jaegers engage in deadly battle over a mysterious holy arc only known as “The Arc of Sirius”.
What truth awaits them at the end…?
With eternal affinity and spiral of conspiracy entwine, the highly anticipated action-thriller anime begins!

The anime will star Yūto Uemura as Yuliy. Other cast members include:

• Takahiro Sakurai as Mikhail
• Kenyuu Horiuchi as Willard
• Nanako Mori as Dorothea
• Yūsuke Kobayashi as Philip
• Shunsuke Takeuchi as Fallon
• Rie Takahashi as Ryoko Naoe
• Hinata Tadokoro as Akimoto
• Junji Majima as Hideomi Iba
• Takehito Koyasu as Kershner
• Kenjiro Tsuda as Yevgraf
• Sayaka Ōhara as Agatha
• Nobuo Tobita as Klarwein

Project SIRIUS is credited with the original work. Masahiro Ando (Sword of the Stranger, Snow White with the Red Hair, Under the Dog) is directing the series at P.A. Works. Kinu Nishimura is the original character designer. Mai Matsuura (Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma) and Souichirou Sako (Magi: Adventure of Sinbad) are the animation character designers and chief animation directors. Keigo Koyanagi (Regalia: The Three Sacred Stars, The Rising of The Shield Hero) is handling the series composition. Masaru Yokoyama (Your Lie in April, Love and Lies, Fate/Apocrypha) is composing the music, and Infinite is producing the series.

sajou no hana will perform the show's ending theme song "Hoshie" (Star Drawing).

Sources: Sirius the Jaeger anime's official website, Warner Bros. Anime YouTube channel (link 2)