The official website for The Legend of the Galactic Heroes franchise revealed on Wednesday that Yoshiki Tanaka’s epic science fiction novels are inspiring an unspecified “screen adaptation.”
The first season, The Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These Kaikō (The New Thesis: Star-Crossed), will premiere next April as a 12-episode television series.
The 10 main novel volumes and four side-story volumes in The Legend of the Galactic Heroes saga have sold 15 million copies and earned Tanaka a Seiun Award.
Besides Legend of the Galactic Heroes, Tanaka also wrote the original novel inspirations for The Heroic Legend of Arslan, Ryoko’s Case File, Sohryuden – Legend of the Dragon Kings, and Tytania anime projects.