The Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These" reveals information on 16 new characters and cast members.

The TV anime "The Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These," which will begin airing on April 3 (Tue.), has revealed information on its 16 new characters and cast members.

The "Legend of the Galactic Heroes" is a science fiction novel by Yoshiki Tanaka, and has been a bestseller with a total of more than 15 million copies sold since its first volume was published in 1982. The series was also called "Legend of the Galactic Voice Actors" because most of the voice actors active in Japan at the time were cast in the series. The series has expanded beyond animation to comics, games, stage plays, and other media, and continues to attract many fans.The new animation "The Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These" is a new visualization of the original novel "The Legend of the Galactic Heroes" starting from the first volume "Reimeihen". Production I.G, which has produced numerous popular works such as "Ghost in the Shell" and "PSYCHO-PASS: Psycho-Pass" series, will be in charge of the production, which will consist of a total of 24 episodes.
⇒ Masterpiece science fiction "Legend of the Galactic Heroes" and new anime will be released in 2017!　Production is by Production I.G.
⇒Production is Production I.G.

The new anime will be produced by Production I.G. and will be released in spring 2018.

New character and cast information] (*Honorific titles omitted)

＜Galactic Empire
Willibald Joachim von Merkatz (CV: Unsho Ishizuka)
Staden (CV: Kiyomitsu Mizuuchi)
Vogel (CV: Takahiro Fujiwara)
Erlach (CV: Naoki Kusumi)
Adalbert von Fahrenheit (CV: Ryota Takeuchi)

▼ Paul von Oberstein (CV: Junichi Suwabe)
Colonel in the Galactic Imperial Army.
He is a member of the staff of the fleet stationed at Fortress Iserlohn.
He is a resourceful man, but his directness often arouses animosity even among his own allies.

Wolfgang Mittermeier (CV: Daisuke Ono)
Lieutenant General of the Galactic Imperial Army.
He is known for his valiant and speedy military tactics, and is nicknamed "Wulf der Sturm" (Wulf the Gale).
He is a fair-minded and flexible man, and is a close friend of Leuenthal's.

Oscar von Leuenthal (CV: Yuichi Nakamura)
Lieutenant General of the Galactic Imperial Army.
He combines high operational command ability and strategic thinking, and is the best in the Empire in terms of balance of knowledge and courage.
He is a "heterochromia" with left and right eyes of different colors.


＜ The Alliance of Free Planets
Paetta (CV: Shinsa Fukumatsu)
Pastore (CV: Kosuke Meguro)
Moore (CV: Toru Sakurai)
Rao (CV: Yu Hatanaka)
Jean-Robert Rapp (CV: Tomoki Ono)

▼ Julien Mintz (CV: Yuki Kaji)
A 14-year-old boy who is a war orphan and Jan's ward.
He excels in both literary and military arts, has received numerous awards at school, and is also good at all household chores.
He is an expert at making tea.

Alex Caserne (CV: Tokua Kawashima)
Major General of the Free Planet Alliance.
He excels in planning, coordination, and office work, and is the second-in-command of the Joint Operations Directorate.
He is Jan's senior at the military academy.

Walter von Schoenkopf (CV: Shinichiro Miki)
Colonel in the Free Planet Alliance.
He is from a noble family in exile in the Reich and is the regimental commander of the "Rosenritter" regiment of the White Guard.
He is fearless in character. He himself is a one-hundred-thousandth warrior.

Filmography: (Titles omitted)
The Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These Encounter
Family Gekijo: April 3 (Tue.) 21:00～ ・TOKYO MX: April 3 (Tue.) 21:00～
TOKYO MX: April 5 (Thu.) 22:30～ ・MBS: April 7 (Thu.) 22:30～ ・FAMILY GEKIJO
MBS: April 7 (Sat.) 26:38～ ・ BS11: April 7 (Sat.) 26:38～ ・ Family Gekijo
BS11: April 7 (Sat.) from 25:30
The broadcast date and time may be subject to change due to programming reasons.

＜STORY
Thousands of years in the future, the human race has expanded into outer space and is divided into the Galactic Empire and the Alliance of Free Planets, two nations with two different political systems, "tyranny" and "democracy. The war between these two nations has lasted for 150 years, and they have been fighting each other endlessly in the endless galaxy. The two nations have been at war for a long time. In the Galactic Empire, corruption caused by the aristocratic society of the cliques, and in the Alliance of Free Planets, the corrosive effects of democracy, or "popular politics," were undermining the two nations. Then, at the end of the 8th century of the stardate, history was changed by the appearance of two geniuses. Reinhard von Lohengram, the "ever-victorious genius," and Jan Wenli, the "undefeatable magician. They lead the Imperial Army and the Alliance in numerous clashes.

<Cast
Reinhard von Lohengram: Mamoru Miyano
Jan Wenley: Kenichi Suzumura
Siegfried Kirchheiss: Yuichiro Umehara
Julian Mintz: Hiroki Kaji
Paul von Oberstein: Junichi Suwabe
Wolfgang Mittermeier: Daisuke Ono
Oscar von Leuenthal: Yuichi Nakamura
Alex Caserne: Tokua Kawashima
Walter von Schoenkopf: Shinichiro Miki
Willibald Jouachim von Merkatz: Unsho Ishizuka
Staden : Kiyomitsu Mizuuchi
Vogel : Takahiro Fujiwara
Erlach : Naoki Kusumi
Adalbert von Fahrenheit : Ryota Takeuchi
Paetta ：Shinisa Fukumatsu
Pastore : Kosuke Meguro
Moore : Toru Sakurai
Rao : Yu Hatanaka
Jean-Robert Rapp : Tomoki Ono
Narration : Yoshimitsu Shimoyama

<Staff> (Japanese only)
Original Story : Yoshiki Tanaka (Tokyo Sogensha)
Director : Shunsuke Tada
Series Composition : Noboru Takagi
Character Design : Yoko Kikuchi, Iwao Teraoka, Katsura Tsushima
Chief Animation Director: Takayuki Goto
Special Effects Director: Atsushi Takeuchi
Mechanical Design: Atsushi Takeuchi, Shinji Usui, Shishin Tsuneki
Original Mecha Design: Naoyuki Kato
Prop Design: Keiko Ota
Prop Design and Emblem Design: Akishino Denforword Hiwa
3D: I.G3D
3D Director: Sigma Morimoto
Art Director：Bamboo
Art Director：Yusuke Takeda
Art Setup：Yoshinori Shiozawa, Yoshihiro Sono, Kazushi Fujii
Art Design：Takashi Watanabe
Color Designer：Yuka Takeda
Sound Director: Masafumi Mima
Music: Shin Hashimoto (Sin)
Opening Theme: "Binary Star" SawanoHiroyuki[nZk]:Uru
Ending theme: "WISH" ELISA
Director of Photography: Eiji Arai
Editing: Junichi Uematsu
Production: Production I.G
Supervision: Raito Stuff
Planning Cooperation: ROOF TOP
Production Cooperation: Tokuma Shoten
Production Cooperation: DMM pictures
Production: Shochiku, Production I.G