New Heavy Object Anime Visuals Revealed

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The official website for the 10th anniversary of Kamachi Kazuma, the author of Toaru Majutsu no Index and several other light novel series, debuted in Dengeki Bunko, has revealed new visuals for the upcoming anime adaptation of the Heavy Object Light novel series.

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Past visual:

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The Heavy Object anime adaptation will begin its broadcast this October during the Fall/Autumn 2015 anime season. The series will air on Tokyo MX, MBS, TV Aichi, BS11, and AT-X.

The main cast of the series were revealed and consists of:

  • Eri Suzuki (Sanae Higashihongan in Rokujouma no Shinryakusha!?) will voice the lead heroine Milinda Brantini
  • Natsuki Hanae (Ken Kaneki in Tokyo Ghoul) voices as Quenser Barbotage
  • Kaito Ishikawa  (Tsumugu Kihara from Nagi no Asukara) will voice Heivia Winchell
  • Shizuka Itou (Akeno Himejima from High School DxD) voicing as Froleytia Capistranoy

In addition, the staff is as follows:

A preview of the character designs in the upcoming anime were also revealed:

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The Opening and Ending theme performers have also been revealed with ALL OFF and Kanto singing the themes respectively.

The first promotional video was also streamed earlier:

Anime visual:

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Heavy Object is a Japanese light novel series, written by Kazuma Kamachi and illustrated by Ryo Nagi. ASCII Media Works have published 8 volumes since 2009 under their Dengeki Bunko label. A manga adaptation with art by Shinsuke Inue was serialized in ASCII Media Works’s seinen manga magazines Dengeki Black Maoh and Dengeki Maoh from 2009 to 2011. It was collected in a single tankobon volume. A second manga adaptation, with art by Sakae Saito and titled Heavy ObjectS, was also serialized in Dengeki Maoh from 2011 to 2013. It was collected in three tankobon volumes.

An anime television series adaptation was announced at the Dengeki Bunko Fall Festival event on October 5, 2014. A new manga adaptation was also announced.

Heavy Object synopsis from Haruhichan:

Kwenser came to the Alaskan military base to study Objects, the new weapons that have completely revolutionized war as we know it – battles are fought by soldiers controlling Objects far away from harm. However, when he starts to get close to Object pilot Milinda, will he discover the grim truth behind Heavy Objects?

Source: Kamachi Kazuma 10th anniversary site