Afilia Saga is getting ready to release single Embrace Blade with tie-up as opening theme for anime Anti-Magic Academy The 35th Test Platoon (Tai-Madou Gakuen 35 Shiken Shoutai, 対魔導学園35試験小隊). Jacket covers, full track list, and preview music video unveiled for their 15th single. Single Embrace Blade comes on five editions hitting stores November 18th 2015.
Unit Afilia Saga formed in 2008 and associated with the Afilia Group chain of maid cafes and restaurants across Japan. The group is produced by singer/songwriter and voice actor Momoi Haruko and Shikura Chiyomaru with members selected from girls working at the cafes.
Most recently the group released 3rd album Realism on August 26th 2015 and 14th single Never say Never on February 11th 2015 with tie-up as opening theme for anime ISUCA.
Anime Anti-Magic Academy The 35th Test Platoon (Tai-Madou Gakuen 35 Shiken Shoutai, 対魔導学園35試験小隊) is adapted from light novels by Yanagimi Toki. It follows Kusanagi Takeru who’s enrolled at the Anti-Magic Academy where students train to track down the now dwindling threat of magic users. Since Takeru can’t use a gun he fights with a sword which relegates him to the weak unit, the 35th Test Platoon.
The anime started October 7th 2015 on Tokyo MX and provider Crunchyroll simulcasts. Check our Crunchyroll updates page for all the new anime episodes or hit the link for Anti-Magic Academy The 35th Test Platoon for episodes and related stories. The ending theme Calling my Twilight is provided by Ito Kanako.
Preview music video and anime trailer after the release details.
Afilia Saga – Embrace Blade – release date November 18th 2015
