Announced as in production just a few weeks back, the official Twitter feed for the God Eater anime project has revealed some of the staffing for the show. The big reveal is that Takayuki Hirao will be directing the property. Hirao has a solid backgruond to be sure and has done work for the games, but he also worked on the Gyo OVA, which is hilariously vicious, as well as the fifth installment of the Garden of Sinners project. The series has also brought on board Keita Shimizu to handle the character designs for the series, which will be interesting as he handled the animation on Fate/Zero.
Plot concept: The game sets in Japan in the year 2071 where the world has been mostly destroyed by mysterious monsters known as the Aragami. An organization known as Fenrir was made to exterminating Aragami using weapons called God Arcs made from the cells of an Aragami. Those who specialize in exterminating Aragami are known as God Eaters. Originally God Eaters had one type in which their God Arcs can only keep gun form or blade form, however a new type has been discovered that can switch between gun and blade form. Since then they have been classified new-types and the previous as old-types.
[Source: ANN]
