The summer adaptation of Takumi Yanai’s fantasy light novel Gate: Jieitai Kano Chi nite, Kaku Tatakaeri/ゲート 自衛隊彼の地にて、斯く戦えり (Thus the JSDF Fought There) is confirmed to debut on 3 July 2015 on Tokyo MX. The series is directed by Love Live‘s Takahiko Kyogoku with production studios GENCO and A-1 Pictures in collaborative effort.
今週から秋葉原にあるアキバ☆ソフマップ一号店の外にGATEの大型広告でてます！この土日にアキバに行く方はぜひご覧くださいっ！GATEは7/3（金）から各局で放送開始です！ #gate_anime めがね pic.twitter.com/Svdw9Ztywx
— TVアニメGATE(ゲート)公式 (@gate_anime) June 5, 2015
Series composition is by Tatsuhiko Urahata with Jun Nakai (Gin no Saji) doing the character designs and Yuko Nagasaki is the sound engineer. The series music score is by Yoshiaki Fujisawa (Love Live!). Theme songs will be sang by Kishida Kyodan & The Akeboshi Rockets with the female leads of the series too.
The voice cast consists of Junichi Sawabe (Fate/Stay Night), Hisako Kanemoto (Assassination Classroom), Nao Toyama (Nisekoi), Risa Taneda (Shokugeki no Soma) and Haruka Tomatsu (DanMachi, Punchline).
The series is written by an ex-JSDF officer and after his discharge from the service, he posted the novel on a website called Arcadia from 2006 to 2009. Taken up by publisher AlphaPolis, the printed edition starts to appear in 2010. The novel finally ends in volume 5 but the spin-off series is still going strong with 4th volume just published last year December.
The official synopsis:
“In the year 20XX, “Gate,” a portal to a parallel world suddenly appears in Ginza, Tokyo, then the army and monsters from the world are pouring out of the portal. After successfully beating them down, the Japanese Ground-Self Defense Forces goes exploring the other side of the portal, named “Tokuchi” (special place). By saving the villagers from a giant fire dragon, 1st lieutenant Yoji Itami, who is a 33-year-old deep otaku and in charge of the 3rd scouting party, starts having close relationships with a bishoujo elf, sorcerer, and sub-god from the different world.”
The premise is very interesting since it is rare to see major depictions of modern Japanese military in anime settings like this. This should satisfy military and fantasy otakus at the same time plus it would seem that the romance is pretty standard harem here. Should be one of the major crowd pleaser for the summer season.
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