Stratos 4

Stratos 4
Title screen
ストラトス・フォー (Stratos4)
Genre	Science fiction, Slice of life
Anime television series
Directed by	Takeshi Mori
Studio	Studio Fantasia
Licensed by	Bandai Entertainment (expired)
Original network	TVS, CTC, Kids Station, tvk, SUN
English network	SEA Animax Asia
Original run	January 5, 2003 – March 30, 2003
Episodes	13 (List of episodes)
Original video animation
Directed by	Takeshi Mori
Studio	Studio Fantasia
Licensed by	Bandai Entertainment (expired)
Released	May 28, 2004 – August 27, 2004
Episodes	2 (List of episodes)
Original video animation
Stratos 4 Advance
Directed by	Takeshi Mori
Studio	Studio Fantasia
Released	March 25, 2005 – January 27, 2006
Episodes	6 (List of episodes)
Original video animation
Stratos 4 Advance Final
Directed by	Takeshi Mori
Studio	Studio Fantasia
Released	September 9, 2006 – October 27, 2006
Episodes	2 (List of episodes)

Stratos 4 (ストラトス・フォー, Sutoratosu Fō^?) is an anime series by Studio Fantasia and Bandai Visual, and directed by Takeshi Mori. Originally spanning a 13-episode anime TV series, which premiered across Japan between January 5, 2003 to March 30, 2003, the series was continued onto three OVA-series sequels, the first of which was released on 28 May 2004 and spanned 2-episodes, followed by Stratos 4: Advance, which spanned 6 episodes and was released on 25 March 2005, and Stratos 4: Advance Final, which was released on 22 September 2006 and spanned 2-episodes, respectively.

The series has been broadcast by the anime satellite television network, Animax, across its respective networks worldwide, including East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Latin America, and other regions. The original 13-episode television series and its first subsequent two-episode OVA series were licensed for North American distribution by Bandai's distributive unit across the region, Bandai Entertainment. But, when Bandai Entertainment shut down, the series became unlicensed.

Fifty years before the series begins, scientists learn that a group of comets will enter the Solar System on a collision course with Earth. The United Nations set up a two-tiered global defense system against the threat: the primary one being a space-based Comet Blaster group and the secondary being a ground-based Meteor Sweeper group. Most of the series takes place on an airbase on Shimoji Island in 2024, where Mikaze and her friends are tasked to defend the Earth from large fragments left over after a failed attempt by the Comet Blasters, who are based on one of seven space stations, to annihilate a comet. All is going well until a large meteorite crashes into a lightly populated island leading the girls on a run to find out the truth about the comets.

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