Crunchyroll is getting ready to add another title to its winter 2016 anime lineup, with Active Raid set to premier on January 7 at 7:30am Pacific Time. Code Geass director Goro Taniguchi helms the original anime from Production IMS, with a cast featuring Nobunaga Shimazaki (Shinichi Izumi in Parasyte -the maxim-) as Takeru Kuroki and Ari Ozawa (Chiyo Sakura in Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun) as Asami Kazari.

Active Raid will be available to Crunchyroll members worldwide except for Asia.

Synopsis:

Set in a futuristic Tokyo, Active Raid tells the story of “The Eighth,” a rash and careless unit of power-armored police called the “5th Special Public Security Section’s Mobile Assault Division.” After the Third Quicksand Disaster sinks Tokyo into a quagmire, the city's reconstruction efforts are carried out using high-output, reinforced exoskeletons called Willwears. But they can also be misused, and to combat the rising number of crimes involving them, the National Police Agency establishes at its Kichioji Branch the Special Public Security Fifth Division Third Mobile Assault Eighth Unit, AKA Unit 8.

Despite being bound by all kinds of red tape, these youngsters (there are exceptions) take on criminals using their brains, bravery, and the gift of gab.

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