Sora Kake Girl

About Sora Kake Girl

Sora Kake Girl, also known as Sora o Kakeru Shōjo (宇宙をかける少女, Sora o Kakeru Shōjo? lit. The Girl Who Leapt Through Space) is a Japanese animated television series, created and produced by Sunrise. Based on the original concept by the Sunrise animation staff, the series is directed by Masakazu Obara and written by Jukki Hanada, overseeing a team of animators noted for their previous work on My-HiME and My-Otome.

The anime began airing in Japan on the TV Tokyo television network on January 6, 2009. The series is set in the far future where humans now live in space colonies orbiting far from Earth. A manga adaptation will begin serialization in the March 2009 issue of Ichijinsha's Comic Rex, and another manga will begin serialization in ASCII Media Works' Dengeki Daioh. A light novel adaptation began serialization in Ichijinsha's Chara Mel in December 2008, and an Internet radio show has also been created.

The anime series, produced by Sunrise and Bandai Visual, began airing in Japan on the TV Tokyo television network on January 6, 2009. The animation character designs and animation for the series is overseen by Yōsuke Kabashima, who converted the original character designs by Kazuyuki Yoshizumi, whereas the mecha designs are supervised by Kazutaka Miyatake, Jun'ichi Akutsu and Noriyuki Jinguji. The music for the series is composed by Ken'ichi Sudō, Tomoki Kikuya, and the JAM Project, with two pieces of theme music being used for the episodes; one opening theme and one ending theme. The opening theme is "Rara Eve Shinseiki" (裸々イヴ新世紀, "Rara Eve Shinseiki"?), performed by Ali Project, and the ending theme is "Sora wa Shōjo no Tomodachisa (宇宙は少女のともだちさ, "Sora wa Shōjo no Tomodachisa?) by Mako, Aya Endō, and Yui Makino. The opening theme's single will be released on January 21, 2009 by Lantis and Geneon. The ending theme's single will be released on February 4, 2009 by Lantis and King Records.