The official website and Twitter page for the TV anime adaptation of Asato Asato's 86 – EIGHTY-SIX light novel series has released cast and staff information.
Staff:
Director: Toshimasa Ishii
Series Composition: Toshiya Ono
Character Design: Tetsuya Kawakami
Cast:
Shouya Chiba as Shinei Nouzen
Ikumi Hasegawa as Vladilena Mirizé
More information on the anime will be released at a later date.
They've also announced that the series is inspiring a Gakuen 86 manga by Suzume Somemiya in Kadokawa's Monthly Comic Alive magazine.
Yen Press publishes the light novel's in English and describes the story as:
A War Without Casualties
The Republic of San Magnolia has long been under attack from the neighboring Giadian Empire's army of unmanned drones known as the Legion. After years of painstaking research, the Republic finally developed autonomous drones of their own, turning the one-sided struggle into a war without casualties-or at least, that's what the government claims.
In truth, there is no such thing as a bloodless war. Beyond the fortified walls protecting the eighty-five Republic territories lies the "nonexistent" Eighty-Sixth Sector. The young men and women of this forsaken land are branded the Eighty-Six and, stripped of their humanity, pilot the "unmanned" weapons into battle…
Staff:
Director: Toshimasa Ishii
Series Composition: Toshiya Ono
Character Design: Tetsuya Kawakami
Cast:
Shouya Chiba as Shinei Nouzen
Ikumi Hasegawa as Vladilena Mirizé
More information on the anime will be released at a later date.
VISUAL:
“その戦場に死者はいない”— TVアニメ『86-エイティシックス-』【公式】 (@anime_eightysix) March 22, 2020
――だが、彼らは確かにあそこで散った。
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They've also announced that the series is inspiring a Gakuen 86 manga by Suzume Somemiya in Kadokawa's Monthly Comic Alive magazine.
Yen Press publishes the light novel's in English and describes the story as:
A War Without Casualties
The Republic of San Magnolia has long been under attack from the neighboring Giadian Empire's army of unmanned drones known as the Legion. After years of painstaking research, the Republic finally developed autonomous drones of their own, turning the one-sided struggle into a war without casualties-or at least, that's what the government claims.
In truth, there is no such thing as a bloodless war. Beyond the fortified walls protecting the eighty-five Republic territories lies the "nonexistent" Eighty-Sixth Sector. The young men and women of this forsaken land are branded the Eighty-Six and, stripped of their humanity, pilot the "unmanned" weapons into battle…