Crunchyroll has slotted another series from the Funimation catalog that slipped under the radar a bit with the addition of the original 2003 Last Exile series. The show is now streaming in full on the service in its original Japanese language with English subtitles. Due to this being an older license it’s only available to viewers in the United States and Canada.
Directed by Koichi Chigara, Range Murata handled the character concepts while Minoru Murao, Osamu Horiuchi, and Yuichi Tanaka worked on the finalized designs.
The Japanese cast includes Anna Shiraki as Alvis E. Hamilton, Chiwa Saito as Lavie Head, Mayumi Asano as Claus Valca, Eri Kitamura as Tatiana Wisla, Junko Noda as Dio Eracles, Kiyoyuki Yanada as Gale, Michiko Neya as Delphine Eracles, Natsuko Kuwatani as Alistia Agrew, Shinichiro Miki as Mullin Shetland, Tomoe Hanba as Lucciola, Toshiyuki Morikawa as Alex Row and Wakana Yamazaki as Sophia Forrester.
Plot concept: Claus Valca and his fiery navigator Lavie are obsessed with becoming the first sky couriers to cross the Grand Stream in a vanship. But when the high-flying duo encounters a mysterious girl named Alvis, they are thrust into the middle of an endless battle between Anatoray and Disith—two countries systematically destroying each other according to the code of chivalric warfare.