At Anime Expo 2025, A-1 Pictures revealed a new trailer for Gen Urobuchi’s Eisen Flügel anime movie. This is the first update on the anime since its initial announcement back in September 2022.
Check out the trailer below:
The main staff for the anime includes:
- Original Story: Gen Urobuchi (Nitro Plus)
- Chief Director: Seiji Mizushima
- Director: Daizen Komatsuda
- Script: Yukie Sugawara, Seiji Mizushima
- Original Character Design: Takashi Takeuchi (TYPE-MOON)
- Character Design: Keigo Sasaki
- Mechanical Design: Kanetake Ebikawa, Takayuki Yanase, Fumihiro Katagai
- Art: Kusanagi
- Setting Research: Seiichi Shirato
- Music: Yuki Kajiura
- Animation Production: A-1 Pictures
- Distribution: Aniplex
Gen Urobuchi’s Eisen Flügel light novel made its debut in 2009 on Shogakukan’s Gagaga Bunko with illustrations by Higashiguchi Chūō. In 2016, a manga adaptation by Anno Nanakamado was released and ran till 2018.
Lastly, here’s an overview of the anime via My Anime List:
In a world where dragons rule the skies, mankind still dreams about taking to the skies and dominating the heavens in their place. Even during wartime, the passionate young pilot Karl Schuniz pursues his dreams, taking up his steel wings—the revolutionary new aircraft, the Blitz Vogel—to challenge the Kaiser Drache, the fastest dragon capable of supersonic flight.
