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Gate TV Anime's 1st Promo Reveals Cast, Staff, July Premiere
posted on by Sarah Nelkin
The official website for the television anime adaptation of Takumi Yanai's Gate: Jieitai Kanochi nite, Kaku Tatakaeri (Gate: The Self-Defense Forces Fight Like This in Another Land) light novel series updated on Thursday, and revealed the first promotional video, cast, and staff.
Yōji: What appeared in midday in Ginza
Yōji: Was something that connected the world to another world.
Yōji: People called this thing
Yōji: That connecte two worlds
Yōji: Gate: The Self-Defense Forces Fight Like This in Another Land
Yōji: Scheduled for brodcasts to start in July 2015.
Yōji: The gate to another world is opening in just a moment.
The cast will star:
Takahiko Kyōgoku (Love Live! School idol project) will direct the series at A-1 Pictures with series composition by Tatsuhiko Urahata (A-Channel, Black Bullet). Jun Nakai (Silver Spoon, The Sacred Blacksmith) will design the characters, and Yoshiaki Fujisawa (Love Live! School idol project, The Eccentric Family) will compose the music. Yukio Nagasaki (Love Live! School idol project, Yona of the Dawn) will serve as sound director, and GENCO will produce the series.
The series will premiere on Japanese television in July.
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 (a replacement for Japan's military) to the alternate world beyond the gate. Led by otaku soldier Yōji, they find that the villages in the world are being attacked by a dragon. An elf girl who is a survivor from the dragon's rampage joins the group in their travels across the dangerous new world.
Yanai wrote his Gate novels on the novel-uploading website Arcadia between 2006 and 2009, and the series was picked up for a print release by Alpha Polis in 2010. The physical release featured illustrations by Kuroshishi, and is still continuing, with 10 volumes of the main series being released as of April, as well as five new edition volumes and three side-story volumes. The novels inspired a manga series that began serializing in 2011 with art by Satoru Sao. The fifth compiled volume of the series shipped in September. ome of the characters are modeled after people Yanai actually knew during his time in the Self-Defense Force.
[Via 0takomu]
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