Heads up on First Squad

[img_assist|nid=2215|title=|desc=|link=popup|align=right|width=200|height=125]Set on the Eastern Front of World War II? Interesting.

Features a katana-wielding Russian girl? Well, that is slightly different.

Produced by Studio 4°C? Now you have my attention.

Nazi zombies? Wait.... let me try that again: Nazi zombies?!? I'm sold!

Studio 4°C is working with the Russian-Canadian animation company Molot Entertainment to produce this World War II action OAV series.

From ANN:

First Squad is set during the opening days of World War II on the Eastern Front. Its main cast are a group of Soviet teenagers with extraordinary abilities; the teenagers have been drafted to form a special unit to fight the invading German army. They are opposed by a Schutzstaffel (SS) officer who is attempting to raise from the dead a supernatural army of crusaders from the 12th-century Order of the Sacred Cross and enlist them in the Nazi cause.

Molot Entertainment had just relaunched a English/Russian/Japanese website for the series, and the trailer on there is looking really sharp. First Squad is a series that I will be looking out for.

UPDATE: I did indeed think of Author when I first heard about this series; I didn't mention this because I really didn't think this would be much of an interest to him. Apparently, I was right.

Anyways, I do like the occaisional dumb action anime, like Spriggan or Catblue: Dynamite. Though I won't know whether I'll like First Squad until I actually see it.