#Hortensia SAGA Anime Reveals Additional Cast Members and Opening

The official Twitter account for the upcoming Hortensia SAGA TV anime based on the fantasy warfare mobile game by SEGA revealed twelve new cast members as well as the anime’s opening animation. 

These new cast members include Takaya Hashi as Barth Hauser Dreadnaught, Atsuki Tani as Georg Dalmas, Takehito Koyasu as Bertrand de Bosque, Rie Kugimiya as Saria / Elva, Miyuki Sawashiro as Charlot D’Hortensia, Shizuka Ito as Marie, Toshiyuki Morikawa as Jim MacNeil, Toshiyuki Morikawa as Adele, Kōji Ishii as Gaston, Takahiro Sakurai as Lucan, Shigeru Chiba as Doctor Grev, and Kana Asumi as Lacroix.

＼📺「#アニメオルサガ」OPアニメーションTwitter先行公開🎉／

1/6(水)より放送開始の🆕TVアニメ「#オルタンシア・サーガ」のOPアニメーションをTwitterでも先行公開いたします🆙

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🎵オープニングテーマ「LEADER」MY FIRST STORY#マイファス @MyFirstStory_of pic.twitter.com/p6WrECJEFY

— TVアニメ「オルタンシア・サーガ」【公式】2021.1.6 ON AIR (@Hortensia_Anime) December 26, 2020

Hortensia SAGA is being directed by Yasuhito Nishikata and features animation production by LIDENFILMS. Additional staff includes Norikazu Ishigooka as assistant director, Rintaro Ikeda as series compositor, Takayuki Onoda as character designer, and Shingo Kanai as art director.

The opening animation features the song “LEADER” by MY FIRST STORY, and the ending animation features “Night Thought and Daylight Dream” by Mafumafu. The anime is set to broadcast in Japan on January 06, 2021.

The series’ story is described as:

Hortensia SAGA is set in the kingdom of Hortensia, a nation that has known peace for some 700 hundred years as a result of being protected from invasion by the tributary states of Olivier and Camellia. However, on the fifth day of the 12th month in the year 767 of the King’s Calendar, Camellia erupts into violent rebellion, and monstrous demons appear, and the kingdom of Hortensia is plunged into a whirlpool of war. The story follows a group of young knights whose fates are caught up in the tragic conflict.

Sources: Hortensia SAGA anime’s website, MoCa