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Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse Cast, Staff Revealed

The April issue of Enterbrain's Tech Gian magazine is confirming the cast and revealing the staff for this summer's Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse television anime series on Tuesday:

Daisuke Ono as Yūya Bridges
Mai Nakahara as Yui Takamura
Hitomi Nabatame as Cryska Barchenowa
Mamiko Noto as Inia Sestina
Sakura Nogawa as Tarisa Manandal
Tomokazu Sugita as Vincent Lowell

Original Creator: Kouki Yoshimune (ixtl/âge)
Chief Production Supervisor: Kouki Yoshimune
Director: Takayuki Inagaki (Desert Punk, Rosario + Vampire)
Character Designer: Yumiko Hara (Baby Princess 3D Paradise 0 [Love])
Chief Animation Directors: Rondo Mizukami, Kenji Shinohara
Sound Director: Jin Aketagawa
Animation Production: ixtl x Satelight

The magazine also previewed Satelight's 3D modellng for the anime's Shiranui Second (in demonstrator colors) and Takemikazuchi Type-00F mechanical designs. A special "TE Memorial Night Powered by Muv-Luv" event will be held at the Yokohama Blitz venue on April 7 to celebrate the upcoming anime.

The anime adapts the Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse novel, which is itself a spinoff of the 2006 visual novel software Muv-Luv Alternative from the adult game company Age. The novel has been running in Tech Gian magazine since 2007, and it already inspired a manga adaptation by Takashi Ishigaki in ASCII Media Works' Monthly Comic Dengeki Daioh magazine in 2009.

As a side story to Muv-Luv Alternative, Total Eclipse follows the test pilots and mechanics in the United Nations Forces' Tactical Surface Fighter Testing Unit in Alaska. Japanese-American Yūya Bridges is the Argos Test Team's main pilot for "XFJ Project," the initiative that is developing the newest Tactical Surface Fighter. Yui Takamura is the head of development for the project from the Japanese Empire's side.

[Via Nitro Yūsenshiki, 0takomu]

Update: Yui Takamura's name fixed. Thanks, octopodpie.