Announced in late 2013 and set for Fall 2014, the second promotional video for Soukyuu no Fafner: Dead Aggressor – Exodus has arrived. The new promo showcases a lot of the action and character material across the two and a half minute run time which definitely shows that the series will be stepping things up from the first one in just about all departments while staying true to its origins.
The planned 26 episode series from Xebec zwei builds upon the events of the 2010 movie, which in turn worked off of the original 2004 TV series which makes this a pretty welcome tenth anniversary project for the studio. Taking place two and a half years after the film, we get the characters aging up a bit and definitely in different places as well as a fairly serious mood and atmosphere about it.
Casting for the series includes Makoto Ishii as Kazuki Makabe, Kohei Kiyasu as Soshi Minashiro and Marika Matsumoto as Maya Tomi.
- Original Creator: Xebec
- Producer: Gou Nakanishi
- Screenplay: Tow Ubukata
- Character Design: Hisashi Hirai
- Mechanical design: Naohiro Washio
- 3D CG Director: Eiji Inomoto
- Director of Photography: Takashi Aoki
- Sound Director:Masafumi Mima
- Music: Tsuneyoshi Saito
- Theme Song Performance: Angela
- Director: Nobuyoshi Habara
- Animation Production: XEBEC zwei
- Chief Director: Takashi Noto
Original concept: Tatsumiyajima is the central island in the middle of a small cluster of islands, in a sleepy backwater of the Japanese isles. Not much happens there, and the island’s young people go to school knowing that their lives are likely to remain peaceful and undisturbed. Or so they have been taught… but the truth is different. The fate of mankind is on the line, and Tatsumiyajima is the last line of defense against a hostile and incomprehensible enemy. At the center of it all, fighting for Humanity’s continued existence, is the giant robot Fafner, the dragon that guards this final treasure of mankind.
