Night Raid 1931 | |
Cover art for the DVD Complete Collection release of Night Raid 1931
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閃光のナイトレイド (Senkō no Night Raid) |
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Genre | Action, historical, science-fiction |
Anime television series | |
Directed by | Atsushi Matsumoto |
Produced by | Akiko Odawara Kazunori Adachi |
Written by | Shinsuke Onishi |
Music by |
Satoshi Kadokura Taro Hakase |
Studio | A-1 Pictures |
Licensed by | |
Original network | TV Tokyo |
Original run | April 5, 2010 – June 28, 2010 |
Episodes | 13 |
Original video animation | |
Directed by | Atsushi Matsumoto |
Produced by | Akiko Odawara Kazunori Adachi |
Written by | Shinsuke Onishi |
Music by |
Satoshi Kadokura Taro Hakase |
Studio | A-1 Pictures |
Licensed by | |
Released | June 23, 2010 – December 22, 2010 |
Episodes | 3 |
Night Raid 1931 (閃光のナイトレイド Senkō no Naito Reido?, lit. Night Raid in Flash), is a Japanese anime television series produced by A-1 Pictures and Aniplex and directed by Atsushi Matsumoto. The 13-episode anime aired in Japan on the TV Tokyo television network starting April 5, 2010.Senkō no Night Raid is the second project of Anime no Chikara. Sentai Filmworks acquired the series and released it on Blu-ray and DVD in August 2011.
The year is 1931. The location is Shanghai, China. The Imperial Japanese Army has been dispatched to mainland China due to the relatively recent First Sino-Japanese War, Russo-Japanese War, and World War I. In this cosmopolitan city of intrigue, there is a special military spy organization called Sakurai and their deeds which are buried in history will be revealed.
The series' opening theme is the song "Yakusoku" (約束?, "Promise") sung by MUCC, and its ending theme is "Mirai e..." (未来へ…?, "To the Future...") sung by Himeka.