A television anime adaptation of Square Enix's gun-shooting action arcade game Gunslinger Stratos was announced during an announcement conference on Tuesday. The anime will premiere in April 2015. Gen Urobuchi (Suisei no Gargantia, Fate/Zero) will provide the original scenario for the anime, with the series titled Gunslinger Stratos -The Animation- .

The anime was announced with a promotional video:

The cast will include:

Atsushi Abe as Tohru Kazasumi

Junichi Suwabe as Ricardo Martini

Sayaka Ohara as Olga Janetine

Hisako Kanemoto as Kyōka Katagiri

Masakazu Nishida as Kyōma Katagiri

Kana Ueda as Shizune Rindo

Saki Fujita as ξ988 (XI 988)

Yousuke Akimoto as Mondo Makabe

Yumiko Kobayashi as Jonathan Sizemore

Saori Hayami as Lyudmila N. Ignatova (Lusha)

Nana Mizuki as Kumi Minakata

Toru Ohkawa as Srinivasa

Mariya Ise as Matsurika Shinō

Soichiro Hoshi as Ryo Kusakage

Miyuki Sawashiro as Remy Odhner

Takehito Koyasu as Aaron Burroughs

Rikiya Koyama as Akira Rakandō



The cast is reprising their roles from the original arcade game.

Shinpei Ezaki (Kimi ni Todoke - From Me to You, Attack on Titan episode director) will direct the anime at A-1 Pictures with series composition by author Norimitsu Kaiho from Nitroplus, who are also helping produce the scripts. Shin'ichi Yokota (Wizard Barristers: Benmashi Cecil art setting, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG key animation) is designing the characters, and Tetsuya Kobayashi is composing the anime's soundtrack.

According to voice actor Junichi Suwabe, at least one character will die in the anime. Fellow voice actor Atsushi Abe commented that he thought maybe Aaron Burroughs would die protecting someone, and Kana Ueda agreed. The anime is described as one filled with drama, death, romance, and more.

Square Enix began service for its Gunslinger Stratos arcade game in 2012, and a sequel began service this past February. Since then, the game has received two animated promotional videos.

[Via Yaraon!]