A flood of new information has been revealed with a full overhaul to the official website for the TV anime adaptation of Koki Yoshimune's Muv-Luv Alternative Total Eclipse novels. The TV series will be airing this summer and will be animated by ixtl and Satelight. The series will be directed by Takayuki Inagaki (Desert Punk, Rosario and Vampire) with Yumiko Hara doing character designs, Jin Aketagawa as sound director, and Kenji Shinohara and Rondo Mizukami as animation directors.

The cast has so far been announced to be:

Daisuke Oono voices Yuuya Bridges
Mai Nakahara voices Yui Takamura
Hitomi Nabatame voices Cryska Barchenowa
Mamiko Noto voices Inia Sestina
Sakura Nogawa voices Tarisa Manandal
Tomokazu Sugita voices Vincent Lowell

The series key visual can be seen in the official site's background:

Muv-Luv Alternative Total Eclipse is a series of novels by Koki Yoshimune, serialized in the adult game magazine Tech Gian, spun off from the adult game Muv-Luv Alternative by âge. It tells the story of the continuing fight against the BETA, aliens that invaded earth in 1973 driving humans to the brink of extinction. In 2001, as they are working on building the latest Tactical Surface Fighter, a humanoid robot used to fight the BETA, the UN Forces propose a joint US/Japan forces plan to improve the robots. Yui Takamura heads to Africa to lead the plan for Japan's forces. At the same time, Yuuya Bridges, of the US forces, also heads to Africa. Unknown to them, their meeting will change fate.

Update: The official site also says "Japan and America simultaneously" down the right side. It is unclear what the context of this is, but some blogs seem to suspect this might mean the show will be aired simultaneously in both countries, while other blogs first suspect that and then wrote it off as story related.

Source: Official Site via 0takomu

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