1st season of 12 episodes premieres on April 3

The official website for Production I.G's new anime of Yoshiki Tanaka's epic science fiction novels The Legend of the Galactic Heroes began streaming the show's second promotional video on Thursday.

The anime stars:

Galactic Empire

Mamoru Miyano as Reinhard von Lohengramm

Yuichiro Umehara as Siegfried Kircheis

Junichi Suwabe as Paul von Oberstein

Daisuke Ono as Wolfgang Mittermeyer

Yūichi Nakamura as Oskar von Reuenthal

Unshō Ishizuka as Willibard Joachim von Merkatz

Kiyomitsu Mizuuchi as Staden

Takahiro Fujiwara as Fogel

Naomi Kusumi as Erlache

Ryota Takeuchi as Adalbert von Fahrenheit

Free Planets Alliance

Kenichi Suzumura as Yang Wen-li

Yuuki Kaji as Julian Mintz

Tokuyoshi Kawashima as Alex Cazerne

Shinichiro Miki as Walter von Schönkopf

Shinya Fukumatsu as Paetta

Kosuke Meguro as Pastolle

Tooru Sakurai as Moore

Tasuku Hatanaka as Lao

Yuuki Ono as Jean Robert Lapp

Aya Endo will as Frederica Greenhill

Yoshimitsu Shimoyama as Narrator

The anime will premiere on the Family Gekijo channel on April 3 at 9:00 p.m. (8:00 a.m. EDT). The show will then air on Tokyo MX on April 5 at 10:30 p.m., and on MBS and BS11 on April 7 at 26:38 and 25:30 (effectively April 8 morning at 2:38 a.m. and 1:30 a.m.), respectively. Crunchyroll will stream the series with subtitles, and Funimation will stream the series with an English dub.

The first season, The Legend of the Galactic Heroes Die Neue These Kaikō (The New Thesis: Star-Crossed), will air as a 12-episode series. The event screenings of the second "season," The Legend of the Galactic Heroes Die Neue These Seiran (The New Thesis: Stellar War), will then play in theaters, as three films of four episodes each, in 2019.

Shunsuke Tada (Kuroko's Basketball, Starmyu) is directing the anime at Production I.G. Noboru Takagi (Durarara!!, Kuroko's Basketball) is in charge of the series scripts. Yoko Kikuchi (Junjō Romantica, Kuroko's Basketball, Sekai Ichi Hatsukoi - The World's Greatest First Love), Iwao Teraoka (The Brave Police J-Decker guest character designs, Kuroko's Basketball storyboarder), and Katsura Tsushima (Kuroko's Basketball episode animation director) are designing the characters, and Takayuki Goto (Kuroko's Basketball, Blood-C) is serving as chief animation director.

Atsushi Takeuchi (Napping Princess) is directing the special effects, and Atsushi Takeuchi (Appleseed, Ghost in the Shell, Yukikaze), Shinji Usui (009 Re:Cyborg), and Shinobu Tsuneki (Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Psycho-Pass) are drafting the mecha designs with original mecha designs by Naoyuki Kato (The Legend of the Galactic Heroes novel illustrations, Starship Troopers). Tanaka's Wright Staff management firm is supervising the project, and Kitty Entertainment is collaborating on the planning. Tokuma Shoten is collaborating on the production, and DMM pictures is collaborating on producing with Shochiku and Production I.G.