G’s new anime of Yoshiki Tanaka’s epic science fiction novels The Legend of the Galactic Heroes announced on Wednesday that Aya Endo will play Yang Wen-li’s aide Frederica Greenhill.
The first season, The Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These Kaikō (The New Thesis: Star-Crossed), will air as a 12-episode series.
Shunsuke Tada (Kuroko’s Basketball, STARMYU) is directing the anime at Production I.G. Noboru Takagi (Durarara!!, Kuroko’s Basketball) is in charge of the series scripts.
The event screenings of the second “season,” The Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These Seiran (The New Thesis: Stellar War), will then play in theaters, as three films of four episodes each, in 2019.