Girls' Frontline Trailer and Cast Members Revealed With 2021 Release Date Announcement

First announced in January 2021, a brand new trailer has been released for the upcoming television anime adaptation of the mobile game Girls' Frontline. The new trailer doesn't reveal a lot about the story, but it does inform viewers of the main voice cast and reveals that the series will air before the end of 2021. No announcement from Crunchyroll or Funimation announcing plans to simulcast this series has been revealed as of yet, but the trailer does state that the series will stream globally. Nor do we know what genre this series will be exactly (shonen, shojo, etc).

As seen in the trailer, the main voice cast will be filled out as follows (character names first):

M4A1: Haruka Tomatsu
M16A1: Nozomi Yamane
ST AR-15: Emiri Kato
M4 SOPMOD II: Yukari Tamura

In the original game, the setting is a war-torn future where most of the world is no longer inhabitable and humanity has become almost extinct. Instead of human soldiers fighting the war, however, we have robots known as tactical dolls (or T-Dolls for short) who are engaging in the battles. In the year 2062, an artificial intelligence suddenly rebels and uses its own T-Dolls to kill its human masters and start taking over nearby territories. The remaining humans left in the world respond by hiring a private military company to deal with the new threat.

Judging from the trailer embedded above and key visual released along with it, this will not be a sweet and fluffy war story like the moeblob series Girls' Last Tour. Instead, viewers should probably brace themselves for darkness and bloodshed, which isn't automatically a bad thing. There are countless examples of dark war stories that still manage to elicit a smile or even happy tears towards the end, including FLAG or the severely underrated gem WorldEnd: What do you do at the end of the world? Are you busy? Will you save us?.

This series has already intrigued me with its basic premise and the dark trailer it released. If you're interested in seeing some nameless military robots embark on a potentially dangerous mission with no guarantees of survival, this will probably be a good series for you to glance at when it premieres later this year.

Source: A.I.R. on Twitter

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