Series synopsis
Altair: A Record of Battles, also known as 将国のアルタイル is a Japanese animation action & adventure drama sci-fi & fantasy television series that premiered on MBS on July 7, 2017. It ended on December 22, 2017. It stars Ayumu Murase, Daisuke Hirakawa, Ai Kayano and Daisuke Ono.
Tughril Mahmut is a young pasha serving on the Divan of the Türkiye Stratocracy. The clouds of war are gathering over his country due to the threat of an aggressive Empire. With the Divan split between warmongers and the pacifists, Mahmut begins his quest to keep the peace at any cost. As he finds himself deeper and deeper in the politics of the ancient world, new enemies and allies surface. Who will prevail? What will Mahmut do if war proves to be inevitable?
Premise
Tughril Mahmut is a young pasha serving on the Divan of the Türkiye Stratocracy. The clouds of war are gathering over his country due to the threat of an aggressive Empire. With the Divan split between warmongers and the pacifists, Mahmut begins his quest to keep the peace at any cost. As he finds himself deeper and deeper in the politics of the ancient world, new enemies and allies surface. Who will prevail? What will Mahmut do if war proves to be inevitable?
Cast and characters
Leading cast
- Ayumu Murase as Mahmut Tuğrul (voice)
- Daisuke Hirakawa as Carvajal (voice)
- Ai Kayano as Ayşe Armut (voice)
- Daisuke Ono as Antonio Lucio (voice)
- Hiro Shimono as Erbach (voice)
- Hiroshi Naka as Wan Ishin (voice)
- Junichi Suwabe as Abiriga (voice)
- Juri Kimura as Gertrude (voice)
Supporting cast
- Kazuya Nakai as Balaban Al-Kaphan (voice)
- Kenichi Ogata as Khalil Şehir (voice)
- Kenjiro Tsuda as Virgilio Louis (voice)
- KENN as Kyros γιός Apollodorus (voice)
- Koki Uchiyama as Beyazit Ulema (voice)
- Makoto Furukawa as Zağanos Zehir (voice)
- Mamiko Noto as Caterina de Rossi (voice)
- Mariya Ise as Lilley Kokoschka (voice)
- Megumi Han as Margit (voice)
- Nobuhiko Okamoto as Ismail (voice)
- Nobunaga Shimazaki as Orhan (voice)
- Reika Uyama as Kemal (voice)
Episodes
This series spans 1 season with 24 episodes.
| Season | Episodes | First aired | Last aired |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | 24 | July 7, 2017 | December 22, 2017 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
The Golden Eagle General After being newly appointed as Pasha, Mahmut spends some time at a festival with his friend, Ibrahim, and meets Shara, a dancer who Ibrahim is friends with. The next day, Mahmut is called into the Divan to discuss the Balt-Rhein Empire's demands after an empire minister, Franz, is found dead at Türkiye's border. One Pasha, Zağanos, knows this a ploy for the empire to invade Türkiye and proposes a preemptive strike at them. |
July 7, 2017 |
| 2 |
The Citadel City Mahmut and the Divan are informed that Hisar village is rebelling against Türkiye with the Araba Tribe and that Ibrahim is leading it since he is Hisar's Vali. As Hisar falls under his jurisdiction, Zağanos takes responsibility to stop the rebellion with his troops, knowing Balt-Rhein will use the rebellion as an opportunity to invade. Using Araba clothes to blend in, Mahmut and Shara goes to Hisar to investigate and discover that Ibrahim is being force to obey the empire's agents, Röd Orm, and the Araba Tribe because they are holding Hisar citizens hostage in an oil-soaked tent. |
July 14, 2017 |
| 3 |
The Council of Generals Outside Hisar, Lelederik and Glalat grow impatient and plan to act on their own, killing the Röd Orm agent with them so he does not interfere. With 40,000 Arabas on their way, Zağanos contemplates on using poison to stop them. Inside Hisar, the Arabas question a Röd Orm agent, Eleanor, who threatens to burn the hostages and make the Araba Tribe take the blame. On Mahmut's orders, Shara cuts some of the robes off the oil-soaked tent, allowing Iskender (Mahmut's golden eagle) and a large flock of eagles to lift the tent off and free the hostages. |
July 21, 2017 |
Production
Release
| Original network/platform | MBS |
|---|---|
| First aired | July 7, 2017 |
| Last aired | December 22, 2017 |
| Runtime | 25 minutes |
| Status | ended |
| Schedule | Friday at 02:25:00 |