The official website for the upcoming TV anime adaptation of Sakae Esuno's sci-fi action manga series Big Order has announced that it is set to premiere on Tokyo MX and other eight stations in Japan at 25:40 on April 15. The main staff and voice cast for the 25-minute OAD bundled withe the limited edition set of the manga's 8th volume released in October 2015 are scheduled to return.

And it is also confirmed that five-member Japanese heavy metal unit Yousei Teikoku will perform the OP song for the TV anime. They previously provided their song "Geki" from their 6th album "SHADOW CORPS[e]" as the theme song for the OAD. The yet-titled single including three new songs and their instrumentals will be released on April 27.

Esuno is best known as the author of the Mirai Nikki/Future Diary series which has had over 4 million

copies in print. Big Order has been serialized in Kadokawa Shoten's Shonen Ace since its November 2011

issue, and the next 9th volume will be published in Japan on March 23.

CM for the OAD

Yousei Teikoku "SHADOW CORPS[e]" CD jacket

OAD/TV Anime Main Staff

 Original Story: Sakae Esuno

 Series Composition/Scenarios: Katsuhiko Takayama (Aldnoah.Zero, Triage X)

 Character Design: Tomoka Kojima (Sword Art Online, Tokyo ESP episode animation director)

 Director: Nobuharu Kamanaka (Tokyo ESP, Oreca Battle episode director)

 Anime Production: Asread (Mirai Nikki, Yu-Shibu)

 Production: Big Order Production Committee

Voice Cast:

 Eiji Hoshimiya: Masakazu Morita

 Rin Kurenai: Shiori Mikami

 Iyo: Azusa Tadokoro

 Sena Hoshimiya: Misaki Kuno

 Daisy: Mari Misaki

 Gennai Hoshimiya: Satoshi Tsuruoka

 Ayahito Sundan: Yuu Hayashi

 Benkei Narukami: Fumihiko Tachiki

 Kagekiyo Tairano: Hitomi Harada

 Yoshitsune Hiiragi: Shinnosuke Tachibana

 Abraham Louis Fran: Tarusuke Shingaki 

Manga 8th volume limited and regular edition covers

Source: "Big Order" TV anime official website

© Sakae Esuno/Kadokawa/Big Order Production Committee