News
Hero TV to Air Gundam the Origin II, Active Raid 2nd Half, The Eden of Grisaia
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Philippine television channel HERO TV announced on Monday that it will air the Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin II: Artesia's Sorrow, The Eden of Grisaia, and the second half of the Active Raid anime.
The second half of Active Raid will premiere on October 11.
Active Raid's story is set in a part of Tokyo that has descended into a quagmire, and it follows the Special Public Security Division Third Mobile Assault Eighth Unit — popularly called "The Eighth" — who don powered armor "Willware" exoskeletons to counter the rise in crime. Assistant inspector Asami Kazari is assigned to The Eighth with the task of assessing the unit's status and reporting it to her superiors. But her true goal is to rehabilitate this sloppy, haphazard, justice-less group.
Goro Taniguchi (Planetes, Code Geass, Maria the Virgin Witch) served as chief director on the original television anime at Production IMS. Orange produced the 3D CG. Noriaki Akitaya (Bakuman., Persona 3 the Movie #1 Spring of Birth, Castle Town Dandelion) directed the anime, and Naruhisa Arakawa (MAOYU, Spice and Wolf, Outbreak Company) wrote the scripts. Artist and manga creator Shun Saeki (Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma) drew the original character designs, while Asako Nishida (Love Live!, Simoun, Vampire Knight) designed the characters for animation. Kotaro Nakagawa (Planetes, Code Geass, Prison School) composed the music.
The first 12-episode half of the anime premiered in Japan on January 7. The second half premiered in Japan on July 12, and is currently airing. HERO TV premiered the anime's first half on September 7.
Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin II: Artesia's Sorrow will premiere on October 16.
The episode's story moves three years ahead to U.C. 0071. The story will follow the tearful separation of the siblings Casval and Artesia (before they became known as Char and Sayla). It will also feature more of the development of the mobile suits, particularly on the Zeon side.
Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin II: Artesia's Sorrow is the second a four-part video anime series telling the past of iconic Gundam character Char Aznable and his younger sister Sayla Mass. The episode premiered in a limited engagement in Japanese theaters in October 2015. The first episode, "Blue-Eyed Casval," opened in Japan in February 2015. Odex screened the episode in theaters in Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Indonesia in the same month. The third episode began screening in 15 theaters in Japan for two weeks on May 21. The fourth episode will screen in 15 theaters in Japan on November 19.
HERO TV aired the first episode on September 18.
After the fourth episode the anime will enter the Loum Arc that will cover the Battle of Loum.
Anime Consortium Japan is releasing the series digitally worldwide through a premium rental streaming program.
The anime project adapts Yoshikazu Yasuhiko's manga of the same name, which in turn is inspired by the first Mobile Suit Gundam anime's story.
The Eden of Grisaia will premiere on October 27.
The anime is a sequel to the earlier The Fruit of Grisaia anime, which takes place at the private Mihama Academy, where five girls who seem normal attend the school due to "certain reasons." A sixth student "with reasons" named Yūji Kazami transfers in. Yūji has an ego with such darkness that he does not fade in comparison to the five girls, who are so different from the norm. As they each meet each other, they deepen their understanding of one another. Through the small bits of progress they make, each of their hearts will be affected. When Yūji arrives, a story of girls who are trapped by their pasts begins.
The series is based on Frontwing's visual novel of the same name. The series premiered in Japan in October 2014. Tensho (Kin-iro Mosaic) directed the series at 8-Bit with character designs and chief animation direction by Akio Watanabe (Monogatari Series Second Season, The World God Only Knows). Elements Garden composed the music for the soundtrack.
The Fruit of Grisaia premiered in Japan in October 2014. The Eden of Grisaia premiered in April 2015 at the same time as The Labyrinth of Grisaia, a television anime special, similarly based on Frontwing's sequel visual novels of the same name.
HERO TV aired The Fruit of Grisaia in May.
