# Aniplus HD to broadcast ‘Fate/Grand Order: First Order’ on New Year <img src="https://scontent-hkg.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/15622151_1227555427290339_6046546540642178076_n.jpg?oh=c6d90f5c71c9a7877d108836e3f3c231&oe=58D72116"> Aniplus HD announced over the weekend that it will air the <i>Fate/Grand Order: First Order</i> 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. <i>Fate/Grand Order: First Order</i> is part of <i>Fate Project Ōmisoka TV Special First & Next Order (Fate Project New Year's Eve TV Special: First & Next Order)</i>. It was based on an Android and iOS game of the same name that first launched in summer 2015. <b>Trailer by Madman Entertainment:</b> <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/OrHgZwqUSPg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <b>The story as described by Aniplus HD:</b> “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.” <b>Cast:</b> • Nobunaga Shimazaki as <i>Ritsuka Fujimaru</i> (<i>Free! - Iwatobi Swim Club</i>'s Haruka Nanase and <i>Handa-kun</i>'s Sei Handa) • Rie Takahashi as <i>Kyrielight Mash</i> (<i>Rampo Kitan: Game of Laplace</i>'s Kobayashi and <i>Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World</i>'s Emilia) • Ayako Kawasumi as <i>Fou</i> (<i>Fate/stay night</i>'s Saber and <i>Pandora Hearts</i>' Alice) • Madoka Yonezawa as <i>Olgamarie Animusufia</i> • Kenichi Suzumura as <i>Romani Aakiman</i> (<i>D.Gray-man</i>'s Lavi and <i>Fairy Tail</i>'s Rogue Cheney) • Tomokazu Sugita as <i>Refu Rainōru</i> (<i>Drifters</i>' Count of St. Germain and <i>Assassination Classroom</i>'s Tadaomi Karasuma) <i>Fate/Grand Order: First Order</i> will be directed by Hitoshi Nanba, with assistant director Takurō Tsukada, at the studio Lay-duce. For more information, check out <a href="https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2016-12-25/aniplus-hd-to-air-fate-grand-order-tv-anime-on-new-year-day/.110326">Anime News Network</a>.