First Squad Anime War Movie

First Squad is upcoming full length war anime movie by the joint animation project by Japan’s Studio 4°C and Russian authors with Molot Entertainment.

First Squad Anime Movie is set during the starting days of World War II on the eastern front. The main cast of the movie are a group of Soviet teenagers who possessed extraordinary warfare abilities. They have been trained and formed to a special unit to fight the invading German army.

First Squad: The Moment of Truth is directed by Mind Game and Tweeny Witches’ Yoshiharu Ashino. Hirofumi Nakata, who recently worked on the Batman: Gotham Knight anthology video, is designing the characters, and Studio 4°C head Eiko Tanaka, whose credits include both The Animatrix and Tekkonkinkreet, will be one of the producers along with Molot’s Misha Sprits and Aljosha Klimov.