First episode premieres September 20; reunites main staff, cast

The official website for the Strike Witches "OVA" project (the OVA stands for Operation Victory Arrow) revealed the staff, cast, and release information on Friday for the first episode: Strike Witches Operation Victory Arrow Vol. 1: St. Trond no Raimei (Saint Trond's Thunder). The episode will open in several theaters in Japan on September 20.

The project will reunite the staff and cast from the Strike Witches anime series. The staff includes:

Series Planning: Takeshi Yasuda



Director: Kazuhiro Takamura



Military History Advisor, World Setting: Takaaki Suzuki



Mechanical Design, Chief Mecha Animation Director: Hiroyuki Terao



Animation: Silver Link



Production: 501st Joint Fighter Wing

The 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

The episode will be the first of three 30-minute short stories that depict the lives of the members who returned to their respective homes after the end of Operation Mars in the second television series. The story is set before the 2012 Strike Witches movie.

The Strike Witches anime adapts Humikane Shimada's mecha-girl illustrations. The first season of the anime aired in 2008, while the second season aired in 2010. Crunchyroll streamed the second anime season as it aired in Japan, and Funimation released the first two seasons on DVD. In addition to the 2012 anime film, a third television anime series was announced last year.

[Via: Moca News]