The summer 2016 anime series Alderamin on the Sky is moving right along and Warner Bros. Japan is handling the web promotion for the series. Ahead of the September 16th, 2016 debut of the eleventh episode they’ve now brought out a quick teaser for it to get fans excited. The show is being simulcast by Crunchyroll with it open to members worldwide outside of Asia.
The series is being animated by Madhouse with Tetsuo Ichimura on board to direct it based on the series composition from Shogo Yasukawa. Kunio Katsuki is handling the character designs.
The cast includes Nobuhiko Okamoto as Sorouka Ikuta, Risa Taneda as Igsem Yatorishino, Inori Minase as Shamiyu Kitora Katovanmaninik, Ryousuke Kanemoto as Remion Torway, Junji Majima as Matthew Tetojirichi and Haruka Chisuga as Becker Harouma.
The opening theme will be performed by Kishida Kyoudan & the Akeboshi Rockets. The ending theme song, “nameless,” will be performed by Kano.
The light novels come from Bokuto Uno and it’s been running since 2012 and has its eighth volume coming out earlier this fall in Japan. A manga adaptation began in the summer of 2014 with Taiki Kawakami doing the illustrations/adaptation for it.
Plot concept: At war with the adjacent Kioka Republic, the Katjvarna Empire. In that region, due to certain circumstances, there was a certain youth unwillingly preparing to take the High Grade Military Officer Exam. His name, Ikuta. Disliker of war, lazy, admirer of women. No one predicted that that kind of Ikuta would later on become a soldier referred to even as a great commander… He who survived a world embroiled in war with his superior genius, Ikuta.
