Girls' Frontline (anime)

Girls' Frontline (ドールズフロントライン) is a 12-episodes animated series based on the mobile game Girls' Frontline and its manga Girls' Frontline: Doll's Song. It was originally announced for 2021 during Sunborn's 22 January 2021 live stream, animated by Asahi Production and produced by Warner Bros. Japan. Key arts have been illustrated by duoyuanjun. The opening is Bad Candy by yukaDD(;´∀｀) and the ending HORIZON by Team Shachi. The series was broadcast from January to March 2022 in Japan on BS11, Tokyo MX and AbemaTV and outside Japan on Muse Asia, Funimation and Wakanim.

It has attracted mixed to poor reviews due to its story, adapting the narratively simpler early game chapters, and a middling production value, with notable errors on the specifics of the weapons shown.

Episodes

Episodes are named after in-game story chapters.

Number	English Title	Japanese Title	Director	Writer	Storyboarder	Animation Director	Japanese Air Date
1	THE SEED	タネ	Masato Suzuki	Hideyuki Kurata	Masato Suzuki	Masaki Yamada	8 January 2022
In the future, World War Three led to the creation of combat-capable “Tactical Dolls”. Now, the Tactical Dolls of military company Sangvis Ferri have rebelled against mankind. The Tactical Doll M4A1 and her AR Team, working for the Private Military Company Griffin & Kryuger, have been tasked with a top secret mission in Sangvis territory, but they encounter the enemy Doll Agent.
2	WAKE UP	目覚め	Mizuki Sasaki	Hideyuki Kurata	Tomomi Mochizuki	Masaki Yamada	15 January 2022
After Agent defeated their Griffin reinforcements, the members of AR Team must separate and flee on their own. Meanwhile, a new Griffin Commander named Gentiane gets to know the Tactical Dolls at her base, but their introductions are cut short by the attacking Sangvis Doll Scarecrow.
3	THE ECHO	エコー	Takahiro Ōtsuka	Hideyuki Kurata	Masato Suzuki	Masaki Yamada	22 January 2022
On request from Persica, the research head of 16Lab, the R&D branch of I.O.P. Company, Gentiane is tasked with investigating the last known coordinates of M4A1. Meanwhile, M4A1 is attacked by the Sangvis Doll Executioner.
4	SILENCE01	沈黙01	Takashi Kikugawa	Hideyuki Kurata	Hiroshi Aoyama	Masaki Yamada	29 January 2022
After Executioner's defeat, M4A1 manages to communicate with her team. At odds with the relaxed atmosphere of the base, M4A1 only thinks about rescuing her team and receives Gentiane's help. ST AR-15 is still missing, and a new enemy appears as they find M4 SOPMOD II.
5	SILENCE02	沈黙02	Masahiro Takata	Hideyuki Kurata	Yūki Mochimaru	Masaki Yamada	5 February 2022
After fending off the Sangvis attack, M4 SOPMOD II is dejected when Gentiane denies her appeal to go searching for ST AR-15 right away. During a scouting mission of an important Sangvis site, they must engage the Sangvis Doll Hunter, and M4A1's rescue plans take an unexpected turn.
6	THE MESSAGE01	メッセージ01	Naoki Matsuura	Hideyuki Kurata	Shigeru Ueda	Masaki Yamada	12 February 2022
After capturing the Sangvis base, M4A1 and ST AR-15 are reunited. AR Team are deployed by Gentiane on orders from the top for a decisive mission in Area S09. As M16A1 contacts her team, a menacing figure approaches her in the rain.
7	THE MESSAGE02	メッセージ02	Shigeru Ueda	Hideyuki Kurata	Masato Suzuki	Masaki Yamada	19 February 2022
M4 SOPMOD II leads an assault on the base of Intruder and fall into her trap, but M4A1 and Gentiane manage to turn the tables on her. Intruder seems unbothered, as if another trap is waiting for them.
8	THE KINDLING01	火種01	Takahiro Ōtsuka, Takashi Kikugawa	Hideyuki Kurata	Osamu Yamasaki	Masaki Yamada	26 February 2022
After Intruder's defeat, M16A1 returns and AR Team is reunited. As things return to normal for the unusual elite team, Gentiane travels to a secret base where other Tactical Commanders are assembling, and where more unexpected events take place.
9	THE KINDLING02	火種02	Mizuki Sasaki	Hideyuki Kurata	Akira Oguro	Masaki Yamada	5 March 2022
While AR Team is coming to help the secret base, they are contacted by the Sangvis Doll Destroyer. When the team is reunited with Gentiane, strange signals from ST AR-15 arouse suspicions. As she is taken away for inspection, Destroyer is chasing M4A1 and reveals disturbing information.
10	THE KINDLING03	火種03	Masahiro Okamura	Hideyuki Kurata	Kazutaka Muraki, Naoki Matsuura	Masaki Yamada	12 March 2022
As Destroyer is tracking down M4A1, AR Team is led into a new trap by Dreamer. Ordered by Griffin Command to protect AR Team at all cost, Gentiane and her fellow Commanders must take drastic action. The point of no return approaches.
11	COMET01	彗星01	Masato Suzuki	Hideyuki Kurata	Masato Suzuki	Masaki Yamada	19 March 2022
As Squad Negev is dispatched to search for the fugitive ST AR-15, Sangvis Doll Alchemist and a massive army attack the base. AR Team is separated again and Gentiane must take difficult decisions to meet the enemy. On the battlefield, a shadow sets her sights on M4A1.
12	COMET02	彗星02	Shigeru Ueda	Hideyuki Kurata	Shigeru Ueda	Masaki Yamada	26 March 2022
A peculiar discussion takes place as M4A1 meets ST AR-15 again. Squad Negev is pinned down by Alchemist, and faced with the increasingly dire situation, Gentiane can only put her faith into the Dolls. Among the swirling emotions and smoke, a single shot resonates.

Production

• Director: Shigeru Ueda
• Composition and screenplay: Hideyuki Kurata
• Character designs: Masaki Yamada
• Music: Takashi Watanabe
• Prop Design: Noriyuki Jinguji
• Background Art: Goofy
• Art Director: Taketo Gonpei
• Color Key Artist: Maki Saitou
• Compositing Director of Photography: Shōta Kodera
• 3D CG Director: Kazuaki Hara
• Editing: Yuki Honda
• Sound Director: Ryō Tanaka

Casting

• ^AR M4A1M4A1 : Haruka Tomatsu
• ^AR M16A1M16A1 : Nozomi Yamane
• ^AR ST AR-15ST AR-15 : Emiri Katō
• ^AR M4 SOPMOD IIM4 SOPMOD II : Yukari Tamura
• Gentiane: Mikako Komatsu
• Kalina: Nao Tōyama
• Berezovich Kryuger: Akio Ohtsuka
• Agent: Hitomi Nabatame
• Scarecrow: Kaya Okuno
• Executioner: Shizuka Itou
• ^RF G43G43 : Nozomi Yamane
• ^SMG SkorpionSkorpion : Eriko Matsui
• ^SMG PPSh-41PPSh-41 : Sumire Uesaka
• ^SMG UMP45UMP45 : Tomomi Mineuchi
• ^AR HK416HK416 : Ai Nonaka
• ^MG NegevNegev : Ayaka Suwa
• ^AR TAR-21TAR-21 : Yume Maihara
• ^AR GalilGalil : Karin Mitarai
• ^SMG Micro UziMicro Uzi : Saori Ōnishi
• ^AR GalilGalil : Karin Mitarai
• ^MG M1919A4M1919A4 : Sachiyo Yoshida
• ^MG DP28DP28 : Kanae Ikadai
• ^AR FNCFNC : Sumire Yatsurugi
• ^HG PPKPPK : Asuka Itou
• ^SMG MP5MP5 : Naomi Mukaiyama
• ^RF FN49FN49 : Akemi Misaki

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  Acrylic stands showing unpublished illustrations by duoyuanjun.

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  Chibis from the official website.

External links

• Official website
• Officiel Twitter
• Weibo post announcement
• Teaser PV
• PV1
• PV2
• PV3
• Opening
• 4Gamer interview

Trivia

• Gakken Plus Megami Magazine distributed three pin-up posters featuring AR Team, 416 and UMP45 in issues 62 to 64 along the Japanese broadcast.

References

Games Released: Girl of the Bakehouse · Codename: Bakery Girl · Girls' Frontline · Project Neural Cloud · Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium · Reverse Collapse: Code Name Bakery Canceled: Girls' Frontline: Glitch Land Anime Girls' Frontline (anime) · Healing Chapter & Madness Chapter Books Guns&Girls · The Art of Girls' Frontline Vol.1 · The Art of Girls' Frontline Vol.2 · Confidential Files · Girls' Frontline: Doll's Song · Others Music Withered · Girls' Frontline Original Soundtrack · Project Neural Cloud Original Soundtrack · Reverse Collapse: Code Name Bakery Soundtrack · Girls' Frontline ECHOES · Girls' Frontline Concerts Companies Sunborn/Mica Team · Vanguard Sound Misc. April Fools · Minigames · Shadow Confrontation