The final chapter of Haruto Haneki and Akira Akatsuki's Luger Code 1951 manga announced the staff and premiere date for the planned anime adaptation of Haneki's original story on Monday.

Shinya Takahashi ( Urusei Yatsura: Only You character designer, Patlabor 2: The Movie key animation) will make his directorial debut with the anime at Studio DEEN. Katsuhiko Takayama ( Ga-Rei-Zero , Aldnoah.Zero , Mirai Nikki ) is in charge of the anime's script. Hirofumi Morimoto ( Getbackers , Is This a Zombie? animation director) is adapting the character designs for animation. Ryō Kawasaki ( Reikenzan: Hoshikuzu-tachi no Utage ) is composing the music.

In addition, the announcement reveals that the project has cast Takuya Eguchi as Sergeant Alex Rossa.

The anime will premiere in fall this year. Animax will air the anime, and the Shonen Jump+ website will stream it.

Haneki's original "Luger Code 1951" scenario won the Shonen Jump+ x Animax Anime Scenario Award last September. Akatsuki ( Medaka Box ) launched a manga adaptation of the scenario last December.

The original contest accepted unpublished entries that could be made into an anime 30 to 40 minutes in estimated length. Haneki won 2 million yen (about US$17,000) from the contest.

The story centers around the young linguistic genius and university professor Testa. He is introduced by his senior, Sergeant Rossa, to the Allied Cryptanalysis Department. There, he is tasked to break the enemy werewolves' code, which the werewolves are using to encrypt their radio transmissions. Testa is astounded, as the only sound the encrypted code produces is the howling of a wolf. His research yields no results, and he resolves to capture a live werewolf for better cryptanalysis. After exhausting all possible means, he finally finds a female werewolf, Yonaga.

The characters are (No official romanization for the character names exists yet):