“ In the year 20XX, “Gate,” a portal to a parallel world suddenly appears in Ginza, Tokyo, then the army and monsters from the world are pouring out of the portal. The novel finally ends in volume 5 but the spin-off series is still going strong with 4th volume just published last year December. Taken up by publisher AlphaPolis, the printed edition starts to appear in 2010. The series is written by an ex-JSDF officer and after his discharge from the service, he posted the novel on a website called Arcadia from 2006 to 2009. The voice cast consists of Junichi Sawabe ( Fate/Stay Night), Hisako Kanemoto ( Assassination Classroom), Nao Toyama ( Nisekoi), Risa Taneda ( Shokugeki no Soma) and Haruka Tomatsu ( DanMachi, Punchline).

Theme songs will be sang by Kishida Kyodan & The Akeboshi Rockets with the female leads of the series too. The series music score is by Yoshiaki Fujisawa ( Love Live!). Series composition is by Tatsuhiko Urahata with Jun Nakai ( Gin no Saji) doing the character designs and Yuko Nagasaki is the sound engineer. The series is directed by Love Live‘s Takahiko Kyogoku with production studios GENCO and A-1 Pictures in collaborative effort. The summer adaptation of Takumi Yanai’s fantasy light novel Gate: Jieitai Kano Chi nite, Kaku Tatakaeri/ゲート自衛隊彼の地にて、斯く戦えり (Thus the JSDF Fought There) is confirmed to debut on 3 July 2015 on Tokyo MX.

GATE by Takumi Yanai