There’s good news ahead for fans of the Fafner property as an announcement has landed amid original creator Soshi Minashiro’s birthday event today that a new project is in the works. The format isn’t specified for it but the official site and social media side has updated with a new anime visual. The property kicked off in anime form back in 2004 with the first TV series which had a movie follow-up in 2010. That had a new series come after that in 2015, which is unlicensed at this point but was streamed by Crunchyroll.
More details of this new project are expected on January 6th, 2017.
Original series concept: Terrorized by a hostile alien race’s mental warfare, humans hear only this question just before their lives are destroyed by the violent invaders. Kazuki and his classmates lay everything on the line to pilot their heavily guarded island’s secret weapons: towering mechs for which only they are genetically qualified to control.
With most of Earth in ruins, humanity’s survival relies on these youths’ selfless determination to protect the only home they know. But when each battle pushes the pilots to the brink of assimilation, who will protect them?
※超重大発表!!※
新作「蒼穹のファフナー THE BEYOND」制作決定!!!
ティザービジュアルを公開しました!!本日開催のイベントにてティザーPVをいち早く発表!公式HPにて年明け1/6に公開予定ですので、皆さまお楽しみに…!#fafner pic.twitter.com/6rlUwHsCih— 蒼穹のファフナー (@fafnerproject) December 29, 2016