With the first OVA from this part series getting its theatrical release back on September 27th, 2014, the second episode is now getting closer for Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet: Meguru Koro, Haruka. The new episode is getting a theatrical release on April 7th, 2015 and Bandai Visual has provided the first look at it the Production I.G. work today that’s directed by Kazuya Murata based on the story by Gen Urobuchi and Daishiro Tanimura.
The TV series and previous specials have been picked up for release by Viz Media which was released late last year.
Property concept: The story begins in the distant future in the far reaches of the galaxy. The Human Galactic Alliance has been constantly fighting for its survival against a grotesque race of beings called “Hidiaazu.” During an intense battle, the young lieutenant Ledo and his humanoid mobile weapon Chamber are swallowed up into a distortion of time and space. Waking from his artificially induced hibernation, Ledo realizes that he has arrived on Earth, the planet on the lost frontier. On this planet that was completely flooded by the seas, people live in fleets of giant ships, salvaging relics from the seas’ depths in order to survive. Ledo arrives on one of the fleets called Gargantia. With no knowledge of the planet’s history or culture, he is forced to live alongside Amy, a 15-year-old girl who serves as a messenger aboard the Gargantia fleet. To Ledo, who has lived a life where he knows nothing but fighting, these days of peace continue to surprise him.
