The official social media side for the fall 2016 anime series Brave Witches revealed late last week that the fourth episode for the series is being delayed by a week, citing production delays in the schedule. That means the October 26th, 2016 episode will now debut on November 2nd, 2016. In its place, at least in Japan, they’ll air an episode of Strike Witches: Operation Victory Arrow instead. It’s expected that this will not carry over to any streaming services, such as Crunchyroll who is streaming the series worldwide outside of Asia.
The cast includes Ai Kakuma as Hikari Karibuchi, Rie Suegara as Takami Karibuchi, Rie Murakawa as Naoe Kanno, Natsumi Takamori as Nikka Edvardine Katajainen, Kayo Ishida as Waltrud Krupinski, Yumi Hara as Alexandra I Pokryshkin, Haruka Terui as Georgette Lemare, Marin Mizutani as Sadako Shimohara, Hiromi Igarashi as Edytha Rossmann and Rina Satou as Gundula Rall.
The show has Kazuhiro Takamura handling direction and character design based on the overall series composition from Striker Unit. Brave Witches will be animated at Silver Link. Newly announced is Shigeki Izumo on mechanical design, Tomohiro Yoshida as sound director and Seikou Nagaoka on music.
Yoko Ishida will perform the opening theme song for the series with “Ashita no Tsubasa.”
Plot concept: In September 1944, allied forces led by the 501st Joint Fighter Wing “Strike Witches” successfully eliminate the Neuroi threat from the skies of the Republic of Gallia, thus ensuring the security of western Europe. Taking advantage of this victory, allied forces begin a full-fledged push toward central and eastern Europe. From a base in Petersburg in the Empire of Orussia, the 502nd Joint Fighter Wing “Brave Witches,” upon whom mankind has placed its hopes, flies with courage in the cold skies of eastern Europe.