With six volumes released in Japan between 1996 and 2018, the Banner of the Stars series is one that still delights fans that have long fallen for this property (and hold out hope for a modern anime updated version). J-Novel Club brought out an omnibus for the Crest of the Stars series novels and now they’re preparing things for the Banner of the Stars series from writer Hiroyuki Morioka and illustrator Toshihiro Ono.
No set dates beyond 2021 are set yet but it’s expected to cover the three volumes that they’ve released, which would include the third volume that’s due out next month. That’s a big if in that if they’re going to make it like the Crest of the Stars edition that had the three-volume run. That was a hardcover that was priced at $29.99.
Plot Concept: You journeyed with Jint and Lafier through three volumes of interplanetary-scale action and intrigue in CREST OF THE STARS. Through pain and companionship, they forged their way through an impossible ordeal unscathed. But that adventure, though grand, was just the introduction to a larger, decades-spanning chronicle of galactic war. Join our two heroes, now bona fide starpilots appointed to a warship in an Abh Empire fleet, as they participate in their very first official military operation. They are tasked with helping defend a strategically crucial star system from the Three Nations Alliance. Complications arise, however, when they learn that their commanding officer is none other than the sister of the Abh baron they killed three years prior!
