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Crunchyroll to Simulcast Aniplex's So-Ra-No-Wo-To Anime
posted on by Egan Loo
The department and Aniplex.
The story of the anime is set in the future on a land that, after being devastated by long-lasting wars, has settled into quiet decline. Model and actress Juri Aikawa plays Kanata Kumika, a 15-year-old girl who fulfills her dream of enlisting in the army and s a unit of five girls who protect a fortress. The girls also play music that reverberate across the skies over towns without people and seas without fish.
For So-Ra-No-Wo-To, Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon) is composing the music.
Crunchyroll's video streams will be available in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Finland. Crunchyroll's subscribed Anime can see each episode, in standard 480-line progressive resolution, within an hour of its Japanese premiere. Other s can see the same episode in standard definition for free one week later.
Update: More background information added.
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