Looking past all the summer anime hype, a four-page feature offers a preview of the character designs for the fall adaptation of A Certain Magical Index author Kazuma Kamachi's sci-fi war series Heavy Object.

TV anime main staff:

Director: Takashi Watanabe (Slayers, Shakugan no Shana)

Sub director: Chikara Sakurai (Magimoji Rurumo)

Series composition: Hiroyuki Yoshino (Mai-HiME, Macross Frontier)

Character design: Atsuko Watanabe (Tokyo Ravens, Hanayamata)

3DCG: Sanzigen (Arpeggio of Blue Steel -Ars Nova-)

Music: Maiko Iuchi(A Certain Magical Index, A Certain Scientific Railgun)

Sound director: Jin Aketagawa (A Certain Scientific Railgun, Is the order a rabbit?)

Sound production: Magic Capsule

Anime Production: J.C.STAFF (A Certain Magical Index, A Certain Scientific Railgun)

Main voice cast:

Quenser Barbotage: Natsuki Hanae (Inaho Kaizuka in Aldnoah.Zero)

Heivia Winchell: Kaito Ishikawa (Ledo in Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet)

Milinda Brantini: Eri Suzuki (Sanae Higashihongan in Invaders of the Rokujyōoa!?)

Froleytia Capistranoy: Shizuka Ito (Rei Hasekura in Maria Watches Over Us)

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Scott Green is editor and reporter for anime and manga at geek entertainment site Ain't It Cool News. Follow him on Twitter at @aicnanime.