Now available on Blu-ray and DVD through Anchor Bay Entertainment's 'Manga' brand, the anime feature "First Squad : The Moment of Truth" is a collaboration between Japan's Studio 4°C and Russia's Molot Entertainment.
"First Sqaud"is directed by Studio 4°C director, animator Yoshiharu Asino, co-written and produced by Michael Spritz, Alexey Klimov and Eiko Tanaka, featuring character development by Hirofumi Nakata and music by Japanese composer DJ Krush :
"...set during the opening days of World War II on the Eastern Front, the main characters are a group of Soviet teenagers with extraordinary abilities. Drafted to form a special unit to fight the invading German army, they are opposed by a German officer, who is attempting to raise from the dead a supernatural army of crusaders from the 12th-century 'Order of the Sacred Cross', aka the 'Teutonic Knights'.
"Most of the teenage crew die, except for 'Nadia', who is taken to a secret Soviet lab that studies supernatural phenomena, including contact with the dead.
"There, in the 'Gloomy Valley', she meets her dead friends and tries to persuade them to continue fighting..."
Now available on Blu-ray and DVD through Anchor Bay Entertainment's 'Manga' brand, the anime feature "First Squad : The Moment of Truth" is a collaboration between Japan's Studio 4°C and Russia's Molot Entertainment.
"First Sqaud" is directed by Studio 4°C director, animator Yoshiharu Asino, co-written and produced by Michael Spritz, Alexey Klimov and Eiko Tanaka, featuring character development by Hirofumi Nakata and music by Japanese composer DJ Krush :
"...set during the opening days of World War II on the Eastern Front, the main characters are a group of Soviet teenagers with extraordinary abilities. Drafted to form a special unit to fight the invading German army, they are opposed by a German officer, who is attempting to raise from the dead a supernatural army of crusaders from the 12th-century 'Order of the Sacred Cross', aka the 'Teutonic Knights'.
"Most of the teenage crew die, except for 'Nadia', who is taken to a secret Soviet lab that studies supernatural phenomena, including contact with the dead. 
"There, in the 'Gloomy Valley', she meets her dead friends and tries to persuade them to continue fighting..." 
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