Kadokawa is definitely sending fans into the weekend with some good stuff today as they’ve got a first look at a rather anticipate OVA project. Set to debut on September 20th, 2014 in Japan in theaters, Strike Witches: Operation Victory Arrow has its first promo out that clocks in at about 41 seconds while including some nods towards the theatrical aspect. The project, which is getting limited theatrical distribution before a home video release, something more of these projects are doing these days, is bringing back the majority of the original team to work on it. The first episode of three planned episodes will run for thirty minutes as it focuses on the aftermath of the Operation Mars storyline from the second season and before the movie.
Series Planning: Takeshi Yasuda
Director: Kazuhiro Takamura
Military History Advisor, World Setting: Takaaki Suzuki
Mechanical Design, Chief Mecha Animation Director: Hiroyuki Terao
Animation: SILVER LINK
Production: 501st JOINT FIGHTER WING
The cast includes:
Misato Fukuen as Yoshika Miyafuji
Saori Seto as Mio Sakamoto
Kaori Nazuka as Lynette Bishop
Miyuki Sawashiro as Perrine-H. Clostermann
Rie Tanaka as Minna-Dietlinde Wilcke
Mie Sonozaki as Gertrud Barkhorn
Sakura Nogawa as Erica Hartmann
Chiwa Saito as Francesca Lucchini
Ami Koshimizu as Charlotte E Yeager
Mai Kadowaki as Sanya V. Litvyak
Ayuru Ōhashi as Eila Ilmatar Juutilainen
Plot concept: The year is 1944 and the world lives in fear of unidentified flying objects called Neuroi. With the old-boy old guard unable to thwart this deadly menace, humanity turns its desperate eyes to an aerial attack force with much nicer legs. Meet the girls of the 501st Joint Fighter Wing, better known as the Strike Witches. These darlings of the great blue yonder may not have standard issue uniforms, but they do have all the right stuff. Where the average flyboy falters, these dolls blast aliens to bits in the bat of an eyelash. With a little magic and a whole lot of leg, the girls of the 501st are winning the war on pants, and aliens!
