With over 1.5 million copies in print across the main ten volume series and several side stories, the light novel series from Takumi Yanai Gate: The Self-Defense Forces Fight Like This in Another Land is getting an anime adaptation in 2015. An official anime site has gone live and there’s some good stuff to be had on the light novel site as well. The announcement comes with a promotional video that shows off some of the serious side of the show and its attention to detail with the military side of things as well.
No staff or casting were included with the announcement nor when we should expect to hear more details.
Plot concept: 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.
[Source: ANN]
