Sunrise's "Armored Trooper Votoms" announces the theme songs for "Armored Trooper Votoms the Movie: The Grey Witch", to be released in November 2026.

The official website of Sunrise's "Armored Trooper Votoms" announces the theme songs for the first part of the two-part anime film, "Armored Trooper Votoms the Movie: The Grey Witch", to be released in Japanese theaters on Friday, November 20th.

Mika Nakashima is performing the theme song, "Like Some Nameless Poet", and vocalist and guitarist of The Alfee, Toshihiko Takamizawa, is writing, composing, and arranging the song. 

The anime film takes place during the closing days of the Hundred Years' War, as the battle between the Gilgamesh Confederation and the Balarant Union rages in the Astragius Galaxy. The story follows Maki Sauffenberg, who is secretly assigned to investigate the background of a notorious Armored Trooper pilot, Ash Vamps, a nonchalant penal unit soldier known as The Grey Witch for her inexplicable survival in lethal combat.

The cast for the anime film includes Miyuki Sawashiro as Ash Vamps, a notorious and feared AT pilot called The Grey Witch. Mabuki Andou as Maki Sauffenberg, an officer who is secretly assigned to look into Ash's past. 

Ryosuke Takahashi is supervising the anime film, and Mamoru Oshii is directing the 2-part anime film at the animation studio Sunrise and Production I.G. Together with Kazuchika Kise is the original character design concept, Shingo Ogiso, Takashi Kojima, and Tetsuya Nishio are character designers, Shinobu Tsuneki, Soko Kihei, and Yoshiro Sono are mechanical designers, with Ju Ishiguchi and Wataru Inada are co-mechanical designers, and Kenji Kawai is composing the music. 

"Armored Trooper Votoms" is a Japanese military science fiction mecha anime series created by anime director Ryosuke Takahashi, mechanical designer Kunio Okawara, and animation studio Sunrise, which continued the trend towards hard science in the mecha anime subgenre.
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Source:
- Sunrise YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTUpnswZ3VU
- "Votoms" anime website - https://www.votoms-gh.com
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Photo:
- © Sunrise.

 

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