The next project in the Strike Witches franchise with the Strike Witches 501st Unit, Taking Off! anime adaptation had its home video releases in Japan handled by Kadokawa. With the TV series done the focus is on the feature film now which is getting a December 25th, 2019 debut priced at 7,000 yen and 8,000 yen on DVD and Blu-ray respectively. The twelve-episode TV series was getting done as two separate DVD and Blu-ray releases that began on June 26th, 2019. The DVDs are priced at 8,000 yen while the Blu-ray’s are priced at 9,000 yen.
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 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, and Ayuru Ōhashi as Eila Ilmatar Juutilainen,
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.
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Plot Concept: Strike Witches, the 501st Joint Fighter Wing girls, are back from battle and ready to relax as best they can! War with the deadly Neuroi won’t last forever, but one thing is certain, the war on laundry is eternal. Join these aerial combat cuties in a down-to-earth series highlighting the team’s hijinks between missions.
| Volume | Date | Extras |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 06/26/19 | |
| 2 | 07/24/19 | |
| Movie | 12/25/19 | Booklet, Company Special Promo, Clean Closing, Trailers, Promos, Commercials |
[Source: Strike Witches]
