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Combatants Will Be Dispatched! Reveals Promo Video, More Cast, April 4 Debut

The second day of the "Kadokawa Light Novel Expo 2020" event on Sunday revealed a promotional video, more cast, April 4 debut, and theme song artists on Sunday for the television anime of Natsume Akatsuki's Combatants Will Be Dispatched! (Sentōin, Hakenshimasu!) light novel series.

The anime will air on AT-X, Tokyo MX, KBS Kyoto, Sun TV, an BS-NTV. Funimation will stream the series as it airs.

Miku Itō is performing the opening theme song "No.6," and voice actresses Miyu Tomita, Sayaka Kikuchi, Natsumi Murakami, and Minami Takahashi are performing the ending the song "Home Sweet Home" as their respective characters.

The anime stars:

• Yusuke Shirai as Combat Agent 6
• Miyu Tomita as Alice Kisaragi
• Sayaka Kikuchi as Snow
• Natsumi Murakami as Rose
• Minami Takahashi as Grim

Hiroaki Akagi (Teasing Master Takagi-san, Mashiro no Oto) is directing the anime at J.C. Staff, and Yukie Sugawara (Hina Logic - from Luck & Logic, The Idolm@ster SideM, Overlord) is supervising the series scripts. Sōta Suwa is designing the characters, and Masato Kōda (Arpeggio of Blue Steel - Ars Nova, KonoSuba – God’s blessing on this wonderful world!!) is composing the music at Nippon Columbia.

Yen Press is releasing the novels and their manga adaptation in English, and it describes the story:

From the author of KONOSUBA comes a new light novel series! It's tough being on the front lines for an evil organization, and nobody knows this better than No. 6, a Combatant for the Kisaragi Secret Society. Dispatched to a distant alien world on a reconnaissance mission, he's got a new android partner, but how are you supposed to plan an interstellar invasion--of a fantasy world?!

Kadokawa is publishing the novels featuring Kakao Lanthanum's art in Japan. Masaaki Kiasa launched a manga adaptation in Kadokawa's Monthly Comic Alive magazine in March 2018.

Sources: Combatants Will Be Dispatched! anime's website, Kadokawa Light Novel Expo 2020 livestream