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Satomi Satou, Hiromi Igarashi Join Arpeggio of Blue Steel Film's Cast
posted on by Sarah Nelkin
The official website for the Aoki Hagane no Arpeggio: Ars Nova DC film announced on Sunday that Satomi Satou (Is the order a rabbit?, Sket Dance) and Hiromi Igarashi (Listen to Me, Girls. I Am Your Father!, The IDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls) are joining the film's cast. Satou will play Nachi, while Igarashi will play Haguro.
M.A.O (Gonna be the Twin-Tail!!, Brynhildr in the Darkness) will voice the character Hiei, while Suzuko Mimori (Yuki Yuna Is a Hero, Fairy Tail) will play Ashigara, and Ayaka Fukuhara (Trinity Seven, The IDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls) will play Myōkō. The series of film projects will reunite the cast and staff from the 2013 television anime series.
Seiji Kishi will direct at SANZIGEN Animation Studio, and Makoto Uezu will oversee the scripts. Masato Kōda is once again composing the music. The voice actress group Trident will perform the opening theme "Blue Snow," and nano. will perform the ending theme "Rock on."
The film will premiere in Japanese theaters on January 15, 2015.
In Ark Performance's original science-fiction naval manga, humanity lost much of its developed land due to global warming in the first half of the 21st century. Then, a "Fleet of Fog" loaded with super weapons suddenly appears all over the world. Without the ability to withstand this fleet, humanity was defeated and could no longer travel the seas. 17 years after the devastating naval war, Gunzō Chihaya and his crewmates somehow commandeer a "Fleet of Fog" submarine named I-401. Together with Iona (I-401's "mental model" or incarnation in humanoid form), they take on the "Fleet of Fog."
The television anime re-aired this year with 12 new "Kiri-Kumas" (literally, "Fog-Bears") shorts by same main staff who worked on both the television anime and the upcoming movies.
[Via Ota-suke]