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''Jormungand'' is a 2012 anime based on the manga by Keitaro Takahashi. The anime is produced by White Fox studios and directed by Keitaro Motonaga, produced by Gaku Iwasa, script by Yousuke Kuroda and music by Taku Iwasaki under the Jormungand Production Partners team.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Official Jormungand Staff/Cast Page )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=All Cinema's Jormungand Page )〕 The series centers on Koko Hekmatyar, the only daughter of business tycoon Floyd Hekmatyar and the head of HCLI's Europe/African Weapons Transport Division. At the start of the series, she recruits Jonathan "Jonah" Mar, an experienced child soldier as one of her bodyguards who had fought once in West Asia. The show details on Koko coming across governments, private clients, rival arms dealers and any sort of trouble she gets into due to her line of work as she sells weapons from small arms to military vehicles. Because of this, Koko relies on Jonah and her other bodyguards to ensure her safety. The anime began airing on April 10, 2012 on Tokyo MX, Television Kanagawa, TV Aichi and KBS and on later dates on Sun TV, BS11 and AT-X.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Official Jormungand On Air Page )〕 The show will also be seen online in Showtime, NicoNico, Bandai Channel and GyaO.〔 A second season of the series was also announced and is slated to be released in October 2012. Known as Jormungand: Perfect Order, it began broadcast on Japanese TV on October 9, 2012.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=All Cinema's Jormungand: Perfect Order Page )〕 The two seasons aired on Japanese TV at 12:30 AM.〔〔 Funimation has licensed the series for the North American market with the French market under the license of Dybex. A sneak preview of the anime was held on March 31 to April 1, 2012 at the Anime Contents Expo at the Makuhari Messe in Chiba.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=1st Anime Contents Expo's Title List Announced )〕 The first release of Jormungand on DVD and Blu-ray was officially released by Geneon Universal in Japan on June 27, 2012 with the first two episodes, "Gun Metal, Calico Road" and "Pulsar" included.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Official Jormungand Blu-Ray/DVD Page, Blu-Ray and DVD Volume #1 )〕 Subsequent releases followed with two episodes each on both Blu-rays and DVDs on July 25, August 29 and September 26 of 2012.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Official Jormungand Blu-Ray/DVD Page, Blu-Ray and DVD Volume #2 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Official Jormungand Blu-Ray/DVD Page, Blu-Ray and DVD Volume #3 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Official Jormungand Blu-Ray/DVD Page, Blu-Ray and DVD Volume #4 )〕 The Perfect Order DVD/Blu-rays was first released in Japan on December 21, 2012.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Official Jormungand Perfect Order Blu-Ray/DVD Page, Blu-Ray and DVD Volume #1 )〕 Both the opening and ending themes songs for the first season were produced by I've Sound. The opening song is "Borderland" by Mami Kawada, and the ending theme is "Ambivalentidea" by Nagi Yanagi. Both songs will be released as singles by the record label Geneon Universal Entertainment.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Official Jormungand Music Page )〕 For the second season, the opening is "UNDER/SHAFT" by Maon Kurosaki, while the ending is "Laterality" by Nagi Yanagi.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Official Music Page, Jormungand Perfect Order Japanese Page )〕 On the 7th episode of Perfect Order, "UNDER/SHAFT" was used at the ending song. ==Episodes== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of Jormungand episodes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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