By James Robert Shaw (The Wind up Geek)
With just a week away from the premiere of the anime based on Carlo Zen and Shinobu Shinotsuki’s gender-swapping military strategy light novel series Youjo Senki (published by Enterbrain of Kadokawa Corporation), this commercial aired on Japanese television. It was made available for worldwide viewing today on Kodakawa’s anime YouTube channel. The commercial gives details on the dates, times and stations Youjo will broadcast.
According to the Youjo Senki anime website the story follows the blond hair blue-eyed young girl Tanya Degrechaf in the unified calendar of 1923 during her final course at the Imperial Military Academy. She is engaged in training at the third patrol line of the Northern military district Norden battlefield as part of the unit’s work. Training, which is the first step towards a brilliant career as an aviation magician. It was supposed to have finished without any problems.
But the situation will roll in an unexpected direction. Empire and trade union plunges into war as a result of a violation of cross-border collaboration. During the transition to wartime, observation missions are assigned. A surprise attack by the Coalition Allied Forces occurs and Tanya falls into a situation where she will have to engage with the enemy magician company alone.
Youjo Senki will premiere on the Japanese animation specialty channel AT-X on January 6, 2017.
Main Staff
Original Work
Carlo Zen (“Young Girl Warfare” / published by KADOKAWA)
Original Illustratrions
Shinobu Shinotsuki
Directed By
Yasushi Uemura
Character Design · General Drawing Director
Yuji Hoso
Series Composition · Screenplay
Kenta Inohara
Deputy Director
Kana Haruho
Sub Character Design
Hiromi Taniguchi, Takao Maki, Haruhito Takada
Clothing Design
Hiromi Taniguchi
Magical Guide Design
Ebata Ringomi
Prop Design
Hiroshi Moriyama
Firearm Design
Akiho Denforword Sunashi, Otsu Naoshi
Key Animators
Shozu Ishibashi, Shin-ichi Kurita, Hiroyuki Horiuchi
Effects Director
Takashi Hashimoto
Military Research
Reiichiro Oto
Art Director
Hirao Hei
Color Design
Chiho Nakamura
Director of Photography
Shinji Shita
3DCGI Director
Mr. Takahashi
Edit
Shin Shinku Yumi
Acoustic Supervision
Iwaki Miwa
Music
Shuzo Katayama
Animation Production
NUT
Production
Young War Chronicle production committee
Main Cast
Tanya Degrechaf
Yuki Aki
Viktoriya Ivanovna Serebryakov (Visha)
Saori Hayami
Erich von Regen
Shinichiro Miki
Ludeldorf
Teruaki Genda
Hans von Zettour
Yoshitada Otsuka
OP / ED theme
Opening Theme
“JINGO JUNGLE”
MYTH & ROID
Ending Theme
“Los! Los! Los!”
Tanya Degrechaf (CV: Yuki Aki)
Source(s): Anime Paw Facebook site and Youjo Senki Official anime site.
Video Source(s): KADOKAWAanime YoutTube channel.
