The official website for Vividred Operation , the upcoming "original new animation project" collaboration between ASCII Media Works' Dengeki G's Magazine and Aniplex, began streaming the first promotional video on Saturday.

The heroine of the "girl science-fiction action" anime will be a 14-year-old girl who lives with her little sister and grandfather and who lives an impoverished life in various ways. She and other 14-year-old girls fight to protect Earth and all that is precious to them.

As previously revealed, Kazuhiro Takamura will be handling the direction and character designs of the January television anime. Hiroyuki Yoshino (Macross Frontier, Guilty Crown) will be responsible for its scripts, and A-1 Pictures (The [email protected], AnoHana) will be handling the animation production. Hidari (Fractale, Natsuiro Kiseki, [email protected]) and supercell member redjuice (Guilty Crown) are contributing to the concept designs.

The following will voice the main characters:

Ayane Sakura as Akane Isshiki

Rie Murakawa as Aoi Futaba

Yuka Ōtsubo as Wakaba Saegusa

Aya Uchida as Himawari Shinomiya

Maaya Uchida as Rei Kuroki

The voice of another character, the little sister Momo Isshiki, has not been revealed yet.