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Sirius the Jaeger Anime's Videos Preview Jaeger, Vampire Characters

The official website for P.A. Works' original television anime project Sirius the Jaeger began streaming two new promotional videos on Monday. The English-subtitled videos preview the anime's Jaeger and vampire characters.

The anime will premiere in July.

The official English website for the series describes the story:

Imperial Capital, 1930.
A strange group of people carrying musical instrument cases landed on Tokyo station.
They are called the “Jaegers”, who came to hunt vampires.
Amongst them, there stood a young man with striking serenity and unusual aura.
His name is Yuliy, a werewolf whose home village was destroyed by vampires.
Yuliy and the Jaegers engage in deadly battle over a mysterious holy arc only known as “The Arc of Sirius”.
What truth awaits them at the end…?
With eternal affinity and spiral of conspiracy entwine, the highly anticipated action-thriller anime begins!

The anime will star Yuto Uemura as Yuliy. Other cast members include Takahiro Sakurai as Mikhail, Kenyuu Horiuchi as Willard, Nanako Mori as Dorothea, Yusuke Kobayashi as Philip, Shunsuke Takeuchi as Fallon, Rie Takahashi as Ryoko Naoe, Hinata Tadokoro as Akimoto, Junji Majima as Hideomi Iba, Takehito Koyasu as Kershner, Kenjiro Tsuda as Yevgraf, Sayaka Ohara as Agatha, and Nobuo Tobita as Klarwein.

Project SIRIUS is credited with the original work. Masahiro Ando (Sword of the Stranger, Snow White with the Red Hair, Under the Dog) is directing the series at P.A. Works. Kinu Nishimura is the original character designer. Mai Matsuura (Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma) and Souichirou Sako (Magi: Adventure of Sinbad) are the animation character designers and chief animation directors. Keigo Koyanagi (Regalia: The Three Sacred Stars, The Rising of The Shield Hero) is handling the series composition. Masaru Yokoyama (Your Lie in April, Love and Lies, Fate/Apocrypha) is composing the music, and Infinite is producing the series.

Kishida Kyōdan & THE AKEBOSHI ROCKETS will perform the show's opening theme song "Sirius."

Sources: Sirius the Jaeger Anime's Official Website, Sirius the Jaeger's Official Twitter Account (link 2) via Otakomu