Aniplus HD announced over the weekend that it will air the Fate/Grand Order: First Order on New Year, January 1. The Southeast Asian channel will broadcast it in Indonesia and Thailand at 10:00 pm, and in Singapore and the Philippines at 11:00 pm.
Fate/Grand Order: First Order is part of Fate Project Ōmisoka TV Special First & Next Order (Fate Project New Year’s Eve TV Special: First & Next Order). It was based on an Android and iOS game of the same name that first launched in summer 2015.
Trailer by Madman Entertainment:
The story as described by Aniplus HD:
“The story is set in 2015 AD, in the final era when magecraft thrived. The Chaldea Security Organization was formed as a special agency tasked with monitoring a world that can’t be seen or fathomed with magic or science alone and preventing the ultimate downfall of mankind. But, all of a sudden, the future Chaldea has been monitoring disappears, and that It comes to light that mankind will go extinct in 2017.Chaldea assumes a singularity to be the cause of human extinction and starts a mission to investigate and unravel it, or, failing that, to destroy it.”
Cast:
• Nobunaga Shimazaki as Ritsuka Fujimaru
(Free! – Iwatobi Swim Club‘s Haruka Nanase and Handa-kun’s Sei Handa)
• Rie Takahashi as Kyrielight Mash
(Rampo Kitan: Game of Laplace‘s Kobayashi and Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World’s Emilia)
• Ayako Kawasumi as Fou
(Fate/stay night‘s Saber and Pandora Hearts’ Alice)
• Madoka Yonezawa as Olgamarie Animusufia
• Kenichi Suzumura as Romani Aakiman
(D.Gray-man‘s Lavi and Fairy Tail’s Rogue Cheney)
• Tomokazu Sugita as Refu Rainōru
(Drifters’ Count of St. Germain and Assassination Classroom’s Tadaomi Karasuma)
Fate/Grand Order: First Order will be directed by Hitoshi Nanba, with assistant director Takurō Tsukada, at the studio Lay-duce.
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