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'86' Sci-Fi War Franchise Gets 1st Spinoff Novel Next Spring

posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
SOW pens novel centering on Federal Republic of Giad

The official 86 light novel series is getting its first spinoff novel. The novel will serialize on Dengeki Bunko's Novecomi app starting in spring 2022.

The novel will take place in the Federal Republic of Giad, and will feature new characters, weapons, and battlefields. mechanical design.

publishing the main light novel series in English, and it describes the story:

The San Magnolia Republic has long been under attack by unmanned weapons from the neighboring Empire. Against this onslaught, the Republic has also deployed similar weapons, narrowly avoiding great loss of life and impending disaster-or at least that's how it seemed.

The truth is that it has never been possible to have no casualties. Young men and women drawn from the Republic's supposedly non-existent 86th district are organized into the "86 unit" and then ordered to pilot the "unmanned weapons" before heading to battle.

Asato launched the novel series under Kadokawa's Dengeki Bunko imprint in April 2017. Shirabi (releasing the manga in English.

ended in August. The manga has two volumes. cotori is drawing a four- manga spinoff that launched in July on the anime's Twitter and website.

The television streaming an English dub.

Source: Dengeki Bunko's Twitter


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