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The Princess and the Pilot Video	Fri, 9 Dec 2011
The website for the latest studio Madhouse anime film, The Princess and the Pilot (To Aru Hikūshi e no Tsuioku), have started streaming a nine-minute video for the film. Synopsis The story takes place in a world divided between two powers at war and focuses on issues such as empathy and love between people of different social status. Main protagonist Charles Karino, a Revaamu Empire mercenary who flies a two-seater seaplane named Santa Cruz receives an assignment: to fly solo over 12,000 kilometers of enemy waters to protect a girl named Fana del Moral who is the next in line to the empire's throne. This is an adaptation of Joroku Inumura’s popular light novel published in 2008. The production staff includes director Jun Shishido (Hajime no Ippo: New Challenger), script-writer Satoko Okudera (Summer Wars, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time) and character designer Hidenori Matsubara (Ah! My Goddess!/Sakura Wars) who adapted Haruyuki Morisawa’s original light novel illustrations. There are also veterans who have worked on series such as Appleseed, Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo, and Sakura Wars. The film was theatrically released in Japan in October and will receive a blu-ray and DVD release on the 24th of February 2012 in Japan. Source Related: Madhouse Studios
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