The official website for Sōkō Kihei Votoms: Haiiro no Hexe (Armored Trooper Votoms: The Grey Witch), a pair of new anime films produced by Sunrise and Production I.G, has revealed the cast, character designs, and a 30-second teaser trailer for the project.
Cast
- Miyuki Sawashiro voices Ash Vamps, a notorious and feared AT pilot known as the Grey Witch.
- Mabuki Andou voices Maki Stauffenberg, an officer secretly tasked with investigating Ash’s past.
Staff
- Director: Mamoru Oshii
- Supervisor: Ryōsuke Takahashi, director and original creator of the 1983 Armored Trooper Votoms anime
- Original Character Design Concepts: Kazuchika Kise (xxxHOLiC, Made in Abyss, Fate/Grand Order The Movie Divine Realm of the Round Table: Camelot)
- Character Design: Shingo Ogiso, Takashi Kojima, Tetsuya Nishio
- Original Mechanical Designer: Kunio Ōkawara
- Mechanical Design: Jū Ishiguchi, Wataru Inada
- Mechanical Designers: Shinobu Tsuneki (The Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Kaiju No. 8) and Yoshiro Sōno, manga artist of Sōkō Kihei Votoms: AT Stories
- Costume Design Assistance: Katsuya Terada
- Art Design: Satoshi Takabatake, Yasumitsu Suetake, Kazushige Kanehira
- Art Director: Yūshi Honjō
- Color Key Artist: Nagisa Abe
- Compositing Director of Photography: Yūki Kawashita
- CG Directors: Yōta Tasaki, Toshihisa Yokoshima, Jō Nakajima
- Editing: Aya Hida
- Sound Director: Kazuhiro Wakabayashi
- Music: Kenji Kawai, a longtime Oshii collaborator known for Ghost in the Shell and Patlabor 2: The Movie
About the Franchise
The original 1983 Armored Trooper Votoms anime is a landmark of the “real robot” mecha subgenre — inspired by Mobile Suit Gundam — depicting robots as mass-produced military hardware with realistic operational limitations and telling gritty, grounded stories about the brutal costs of war.
The story unfolds near the end of a century-long war between the Gilgamesh Confederation and the Balarant Union. The central weapon is the VOTOMS (Vertical One-man Tank for Offense & Maneuvers), a class of mecha prized for firepower but notorious for thin armor and high pilot casualties. Protagonist Chirico Cuvie, an elite Gilgamesh VOTOMS soldier, is swept into a vast conspiracy that brands him a traitor and leads him to encounter a mysterious woman.
Maiden Japan (Section23 Films) released the original series on Blu-ray Disc in 2019 and 2020. The franchise has spawned numerous spinoffs, including The Last Red Shoulder, Big Battle, Armor Hunter Mellowlink, Red Shoulder Document – Roots of Treachery, Pailsen Files, The Heretic Saint, and Alone Again — the last of which debuted in 2011, making Haiiro no Hexe the first new entry in over a decade.
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