Strike Witches: 501st JOINT FIGHTER WING Take Off!: The Movie

Strike Witches: 501st JOINT FIGHTER WING Take Off!: The Movie
Original Title	ストライクウィッチーズ ５０１部隊発進しますっ！ 劇場版 (Strike Witches 501 Butai Hasshinshimasu! Gekijouban)
Original Language	Japanese
Dubbing Studio	FUNimation Entertainment
Voice Director	Mike McFarland
Translation & Adaptation	Emily Neves Jeramey Kraatz (ADR Script Supervisor) Adam Lensenmayer (Translation)
ADR Production
Recorded	2020
Dub Country	United States
Original Country	Japan
Year	2019
Chronology
Predecessor	Strike Witches: 501st JOINT FIGHTER WING Take Off!

Strike Witches: 501st JOINT FIGHTER WING Take Off!: The Movie (ストライクウィッチーズ ５０１部隊発進しますっ！ 劇場版, Strike Witches 501 Butai Hasshinshimasu! Gekijouban) is a 2019 anime film that serves as a sequel to the Strike Witches: 501st JOINT FIGHTER WING Take Off! series.

The anime film was animated by both acca effe & Giga Production, directed by Fumio Itō, and it was released in Japan on October 4, 2019.

FUNimation Entertainment licensed and produced an English Dub of the film, which was included in the Blu-ray release of the Strike Witches: 501st JOINT FIGHTER WING Take Off! series on June 2, 2020.

Synopsis New story taking place after the 501st Joint Fighter Wing girls break up. Yoshika Miyafuji spends her days peacefully after returning to her hometown. Her former superior officer Mio Sakamoto and others arranged for Yoshika to study abroad at a medical school in Europe. Yoshika returns to Europe with Shizuka Hattori, who was Sakamoto's student at the naval academy. As Yoshika returns to Europe and new signs of Neuroi emerge, the other former members of the 501st Joint Fighter Wing, who were scattered in various locations, also begin to gather again. A powerful Neuroi then appears before Yoshika and Shizuka.

Cast

Image	Character	Seiyū	Dub Actor
	Yoshika Miyafuji	Misato Fukuen	Cherami Leigh
	Mio Sakamoto	Saori Seto	Kira Vincent-Davis
	Minna-Dietlinde Wilcke	Rie Tanaka	Anastasia Muñoz
	Lynette Bishop	Kaori Nazuka	Kate Bristol
	Perrine H. Clostermann	Miyuki Sawashiro	Jad Saxton
	Erica Hartmann	Sakura Nogawa	Luci Christian
	Gertrud Barkhorn	Mie Sonozaki	Stephanie Sheh
	Francesca Lucchini	Chiwa Saitō	Trina Nishimura
	Charlotte E. Yeager	Ami Koshimizu	Jamie Marchi
	Sanya V. Litvyak	Mai Kadowaki	Jennifer Forrester
	Shizuka Hattori	Maaya Uchida	Cristina Vee
	Heidemarie W. Schnaufer	Kana Ueda	Bryn Apprill
	Michiko Yamakawa	Arise Satō	Katie Caruso

Additional Voices

• Rachel Glass
• Corinne Sudberg
• Ryan Urbanovsky

Transmission via Streaming

Company	Date(s)	Category	Format	Classification	Country
	2020	Anime Films / Films Distributed by Funimation	Digital	TV-14	United States

Video Releases

Distributor	Year	Format	Contents	Region	Country
	2020		The Complete Series*	A DVB-T	United States
			1 Disc

*Included with the release

See Also

• Brave Witches
• Brave Witches: The Great Petersburg Strategy
• Strike Witches
• Strike Witches: 501st JOINT FIGHTER WING Take Off!
• Strike Witches: Road to Berlin
• Strike Witches: The Movie
• World Witches Take Off!

External Links

• Strike Witches: 501st JOINT FIGHTER WING Take Off!: The Movie on the Internet Movie Database.
• Strike Witches: 501st JOINT FIGHTER WING Take Off!: The Movie (movie) on the Anime News Network’s encyclopedia.