The next project that’s lined up for the Strike Witches franchise with the Strike Witches 501st Unit, Taking Off! manga getting an anime adaptation is inching ever closer. We knew it was set for April 2019 previously and now the official site has dropped a new group key visual that you can see below as well as scheduling an April 9th, 2019 debut on Tokyo MX. It looks like it’s got a 15-minute time slot and that’ll hopefully make for a little tighter pacing within the show.
Fumio Ito is directing based on the series composition by Shinya Murakami. The anime production lists acca effe and Giga Production, with Production I.G and Anime Beans involved.
The project comes from Makoto Fujibayashi’s manga that ran in 2012 as a four-panel series with a couple of volumes to its name and some additional incarnations later on.
The Japanese 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
【「ストライクウィッチーズ ５０１部隊発進しますっ」放送情報】
TOKYO MX 4月9日より毎週火曜 24:45～25:00
テレビ愛知 4月11日より毎週木曜 26:20～26:35
MBS 4月9日より毎週火燿 27:15～27:30
BS11 4月10日より毎週水曜 24:15～24:30どうぞお楽しみに☆#w_witchhttps://t.co/IRNRZ3idO3 pic.twitter.com/bLkytvHW9O
— 「ワールドウィッチーズシリーズ」公式 (@w_witch_anime) February 26, 2019
Check out the official site and Twitter.
Plot Concept: The series follows the silly everyday lives of the members of the 501st unit, as they cook and clean and do other everyday tasks when there’s a lull in the Neuroi attacks.
