In celebration of 10th anniversary of the GATE anime series, it has been announced by Anime platform Oshi, that Takumi Yanai’s sequel series GATE 2: Tides of Conflict will be getting a televised anime adaptation. Along with the announcement, they revealed some of the production staff and concept character designs for the anime characters.
Production staff:
・Director: Toru Takahashi
・Series Composition / Script: Tatsuhiko Urahata
・Character Design: Shigeru Fujita
・Animation Production: Studio M2
With the excitement of the announcement the author of both GATE: Thus the JSDF Fought There! and GATE 2: Tides of Conflict Takumi Yanai, released a message:
Tozai, toozai !
As the sun rises in the east and sets in the sea of the west—crossing distant time, crossing gates, setting out into the world in leather boots—it brings me great honor to announce the anime adaptation of GATE 2: Tides of Conflict.
This story is built word by word with my own thoughts and emotions poured into each stroke of the pen. To all the creators who bring this world to life with sound and color, breathing life into it with brush and tool—my deepest gratitude goes out to you.
I hope this story becomes a wind that soars across Japan, the East and the West, and beyond to the rest of the world. And so, I humbly ask all of you to receive it into your hearts, across time and space—
Yoroshiku onegai itashimasu!!
Takumi Yanai’s GATE: Thus the JSDF Fought There! light novel series have surpass 7.3 million copies in circulation, this also includes digital sales as of June 2024. GATE: Tides of Conflict, the sequel to GATE2: Thus the JSDF Fought There! currently has five volumes published. They were released between 2020 and 2022 with the same illustrator as the first series, Kurojishi.
The novels were adapted into an anime, with the first season airing in 2015 and the second in 2016. Both seasons were streamed by Crunchyroll, and Sentai Filmworks released them on home video.
In 2011, Satoru Sao started a manga adaptation on AlphaPolis’ website, and it’s still ongoing today. Sekai Project previously published the manga in English but stopped releasing it in 2021. AlphaPolis now publishes the English version.
Oshi describes the story as:
Thanks to the efforts of Lieutenant Yoji Itami (now Lieutenant First Class) of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force, the once-closed “GATE” has safely reopened. The Japanese government, determined to maintain exclusive control over the “GATE”, continues mobilizing the Self-Defense Forces for political and topographical surveys to build a peaceful relationship with the inhabitants of the Special Region. Captain First Class Edajima Goro of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) and his subordinate, Petty Officer Second Class Tokushima Hajime, a skilled former chef, were conducting such diplomatic and investigative missions, traveling across the various nations of the Special Region.
However, one day, their assignment suddenly escalates when they’re tasked with a special mission to rescue an American journalist kidnapped on an island in the Special Region’s Blue Sea.
Immediately boarding the JMSDF Oyashio-class submarine Kitashio, they set sail into the ocean of another world, discovering the area around the Blue Sea engulfed in turmoil, with archipelago nations and pirates battling fiercely for dominance.
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