Armored Trooper Votoms

Armored Trooper Votoms is in a theatrical rollout: the two-part film Armored Trooper Votoms: The Gray Witch, directed by Mamoru Oshii, opens its first part nationwide in Japan on November 20, 2026, with the second part's release timing still to be announced. Merchandise and archive releases tied to the franchise are scheduled through early 2027.

Synthesized from 13 Yomimono stories · updated 2d ago

The clearest change in the Votoms stories is the film. Armored Trooper Votoms: The Gray Witch is a two-part theatrical series from Sunrise and Production I.G, directed by Mamoru Oshii with original creator Ryosuke Takahashi as supervising director. The first part opens nationwide in Japan on November 20, 2026. The second part has no date yet.

Cast and staff filled in through the summer. Miyuki Sawashiro plays Ash Vamps, the feared AT pilot called the Grey Witch, and the main cast includes Shinichiro Miki, Yuki Kaji, Yuichi Nakamura, and Tomokazu Sugita. Kenji Kawai composes the score, and mechanical design is handled by Yoshihiro Sono and Shinobu Tsuneki. Ohta Publishing is releasing a single-issue CONTINUE SPECIAL on the film on November 19, one day before the premiere, with an Oshii interview and cast talks.

Merchandise follows the film and the older machines. MegaHouse opened reservations for a six-mecha VAKIT Platoon kit set from The Gray Witch at 11,880 yen, shipping February 2027. Bandai Spirits is shipping a HI-METAL R Berserga (WP) with a Le Shaco figure in February 2027 at 31,900 yen, and Wave has a 1/35 Fatty ST Version for February 2027 at 5,280 yen plus a Berserga DT reissue at 6,380 yen. An EDWIN jeans collaboration, the Red Shoulder Custom Design, opened preorders October 9, 2026 at 39,600 yen with late March 2027 shipping.

On the archive side, the Sunrise official YouTube channel added a paid membership tier on September 1, with full series streams of Armored Trooper Votoms among the first offerings.

Key facts

Film format: Two-part theatrical series, with the first part opening November 20, 2026 and the second part's timing unannounced ↗
Director and supervisor: Mamoru Oshii directs; original creator Ryosuke Takahashi is supervising director ↗
Studios: Sunrise and Production I.G ↗
Lead voice: Miyuki Sawashiro as Ash Vamps, the AT pilot called the Grey Witch ↗
Score: Kenji Kawai composes ↗
Mechanical design: Yoshihiro Sono and Shinobu Tsuneki ↗
Magazine tie-in: CONTINUE SPECIAL Armored Trooper Votoms: Gray Witch, 80 pages, 1,980 yen, releases November 19 ↗
Berserga WP figure: HI-METAL R Berserga (WP) at 31,900 yen, shipping February 2027 with a Le Shaco figure ↗
Fatty kit: 1/35 Balarant Army Fatty ST Version at 5,280 yen, scheduled for February 2027 ↗
EDWIN jeans: Red Shoulder Custom Design at 39,600 yen, preorders from October 9, 2026, shipping late March 2027 ↗

Timeline

Oct 18, 2026 Wave Opens Preorders on 1/35 Votoms Fatty ST Version and Berserga DT Reissue
Oct 11, 2026 Votoms And EDWIN Bring Scopedog Grime To Denim Jeans
Oct 9, 2026 Votoms And EDWIN Announce Collaboration Jeans With Okawara Clear File Bonus
Oct 8, 2026 CONTINUE Devotes Whole Issue to Mamoru Oshii's Votoms: The Gray Witch
Oct 1, 2026 Wave Adds Balarant Army Fatty to Votoms Model Kit Line
Sep 11, 2026 Bandai Spirits Opens Preorders For HI-METAL R Berserga (WP) With Le Shaco Figure
Sep 11, 2026 HI-METAL R Adds Quentian Berserga (WP) With All-New Sculpt
Sep 4, 2026 New Votoms Anime Films Reveal Cast, Character Designs, Trailer
Sep 4, 2026 Armored Trooper Votoms: The Grey Witch Casts Miki, Kaji, Nakamura, Sugita
Aug 21, 2026 New Votoms Films Trailer Reveals Cast, More Staff
Aug 20, 2026 Sunrise Channel Adds Paid Membership With Full Votoms and Cyber Formula Streams
Aug 7, 2026 Votoms: The Gray Witch Gets 6-Mecha VAKIT Platoon Kit Set
May 16, 2026 New Votoms Anime Confirms Staff and Two-Film Release

Synthesized by Yomimono from the cited Yomimono stories below, each itself sourced, then editorially reviewed. Every fact links the story it came from.

Facts

Announced: Armored Trooper Votoms x EDWIN Collaboration Jeans Red Shoulder Custom Design · 2026-10-09
Release: movie · 2026 · 2026-08-21
Release: tv · September 1 · 2026-08-20

Connections

Produces: fatty st ver, berzelgar dt ps ver
Voice cast of: miyuki sawashiro, mabuki andou
Produces of: sunrise

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Confirmed Mabuki Andou voices Armored Trooper Votoms Sep 6 · source
Confirmed Miyuki Sawashiro voices Armored Trooper Votoms Sep 6 · source

All coverage

1d ago

Votoms: The Grey Witch Theme Song Set For Mika Nakashima And Toshihiko Takamizawa

Sunrise unveiled the main visual, advance trailer, and theme song trailer for Armored Trooper Votoms: The Grey Witch on October 23. The film opens nationwide in Japan on November 20, 2026, as a Sunrise 50th anniversary project. The theme song is "Like a Nameless Poet," performed by Mika Nakashima with music, lyrics, and arrangement by Toshihiko Takamizawa of THE ALFEE. The CD single releases November 25 at 1,450 yen, with streaming starting November 20. The advance trailer opens with Maki looking up at ATs in a maintenance factory and shows her investigating Ash, the soldier called the witch of the punishment unit who always survives. The enemy Balarant army's AT Fatty appears for the first time. A stage greeting is set for opening day at TOHO Cinemas Shinjuku, with director Mamoru Oshii and cast members Miyuki Sawashiro, Asami Ando, Shinichiro Miki, and Yuki Kaji scheduled to appear.

6d ago

Wave Opens Preorders on 1/35 Votoms Fatty ST Version and Berserga DT Reissue

Wave is taking preorders on Rakuten Books for two 1/35 Armored Trooper Votoms kits. The Fatty [ST Version], the Balarant Army machine built to counter Gilgamesh ATs, is a snap-fit, fully articulated model with polycaps at each joint, roughly 12cm tall, at a suggested 5,280 yen. The Berserga DT [PS Version] is being reissued, with a cockpit that holds a Fiana figure and a leg-stored descent gimmick requiring no parts swapping, at 6,380 yen.

Oct 11

Votoms And EDWIN Bring Scopedog Grime To Denim Jeans

EDWIN and Armored Trooper Votoms have made a collaboration pair of jeans, the Red Shoulder Custom Design. Pre-orders opened October 9, 2026. The deep green denim gets a stone wash, damage processing and black stains meant to recall the Scopedog. The back pocket carries a Red Shoulder marking and the leather patch is dyed dark red. Sizes run 27 to 34 inch and 36 inch, at 39,600 yen. Shipping is scheduled for late March 2027.

Oct 9

Votoms And EDWIN Announce Collaboration Jeans With Okawara Clear File Bonus

Bandai Namco Filmworks will release Armored Trooper Votoms x EDWIN Collaboration Jeans Red Shoulder Custom Design, with preorders open from Friday, October 9, 2026 at noon until Monday, November 30, 2026 at 23:59 on the A-on STORE and other sites. Shipping is scheduled for around late March 2027, priced at 39,600 yen including tax, and the purchase bonus is an A4 clear file with new artwork by mechanical designer Kunio Okawara.

Oct 8

CONTINUE Devotes Whole Issue to Mamoru Oshii's Votoms: The Gray Witch

Ohta Publishing will release CONTINUE SPECIAL Armored Trooper Votoms: Gray Witch on November 19, a single-issue magazine built entirely around Mamoru Oshii's theatrical anime of the same name. The volume runs 80 pages in full color, priced at 1,980 yen including tax, in B5 variant format. It carries a long interview with Oshii, who directs the film, and a talk between Miyuki Sawashiro, who plays Ash Vamps, and Asami Ando, who plays Maki Stauffenberg. Sumire Uesaka, cast as a young maintenance soldier, contributes a feature on her attachment to the Votoms series, and the magazine includes a complete commentary on the original Armored Trooper Votoms. The film opens nationwide in Japan on November 20, one day after the magazine. It is a two-part theatrical series, with the first part arriving on that date and the second part's release timing still to be announced.

Oct 1

Wave Adds Balarant Army Fatty to Votoms Model Kit Line

Wave will release a 1/35 scale plastic model of the Balarant Army AT "Fatty" under its ST Version line in February 2027, priced at 5,280 yen. The kit is a snap-fit, poseable model with polycaps at each joint, standing about 12cm tall. Wave also schedules a January 2027 reissue of the 1/35 Berserga DT [PS Version], priced at 6,380 yen, which includes a Fyana figure and a leg-stored landing gimmick.

Sep 11

Bandai Spirits Opens Preorders For HI-METAL R Berserga (WP) With Le Shaco Figure

Bandai Spirits opened preorders for HI-METAL R Berserga (WP) on the Tamashii Web Shop on September 11 at 4:00 PM. The Quentian-exclusive H-Class AT from Armored Trooper Votoms gets a new sculpt with movable gimmicks in its pile bunker and swan-peak claw, plus a newly sculpted Le Shaco figure that can board the unit. It costs 31,900 yen and ships in February 2027.

Sep 11

HI-METAL R Adds Quentian Berserga (WP) With All-New Sculpt

BANDAI SPIRITS is adding the Quentian-exclusive H-Class AT Berserga (WP) from Armored Trooper Votoms to its HI-METAL R action figure line, with an all-new sculpt. The figure carries movable gimmicks in the pile bunker and swan-pick clang, and the set includes an all-new sculpted figure of Ru Shako. Preorders open on Premium Bandai at 16:00 on Friday, September 11, 2026, priced at 31,900 yen with shipping scheduled for February 2027.

Sep 4

New Votoms Anime Films Reveal Cast, Character Designs, Trailer

The official website for Sunrise and Production I.G's Sōkō Kihei Votoms Haiiro no Hexe revealed the cast, character designs, and a 30-second trailer for the two new Armored Trooper Votoms films. Shinichirō Miki, Yūki Kaji, Yūichi Nakamura, and others join the cast. Miyuki Sawashiro plays the feared AT pilot Ash Vamps, known as the Grey Witch.

Sep 4

Armored Trooper Votoms: The Grey Witch Casts Miki, Kaji, Nakamura, Sugita

Sunrise's 50th anniversary Armored Trooper Votoms film The Grey Witch, directed by Mamoru Oshii, revealed its full main cast. Shinichiro Miki, Yuki Kaji, Yuichi Nakamura, Tomokazu Sugita, Takahiro Sakurai, and Sumire Uesaka join previously announced Miyuki Sawashiro and Mafumi Ando. Set at the end of the Hundred Years War, the film opens nationwide November 20, 2026, and a 30-second trailer was shown.

Aug 21

New Votoms Films Trailer Reveals Cast, More Staff

Sunrise and Production I.G revealed the full trailer and character visual for the two new Armored Trooper Votoms films, Soko Kihei Votoms Haiiro no Hexe. The trailer introduces Miyuki Sawashiro as Ash Vamps, the feared AT pilot called the Grey Witch, and Mabuki Andou as Maki Stauffenberg, an officer investigating Ash's past. Additional cast and staff were also announced.

Aug 20

Sunrise Channel Adds Paid Membership With Full Votoms and Cyber Formula Streams

Bandai Namco Filmworks announced a paid membership tier for the Sunrise official YouTube channel, launching September 1. The first offerings are full series streams of Armored Trooper Votoms and Future GPX Cyber Formula, including OVAs and films. Members get badges and stamps, plus a making-of video for the new Votoms film.

Aug 7

Votoms: The Gray Witch Gets 6-Mecha VAKIT Platoon Kit Set

MegaHouse has opened reservations for the first entry in its VAKIT Platoon collectible plastic kit line, a six-mecha set based on the upcoming film Armored Trooper Votoms: The Gray Witch. The set, priced at 11,880 yen including tax, is scheduled to ship in February 2027, ahead of the film's theatrical release in November 2026. Each of the six kits stands about 80mm tall and features articulated joints, with pre-painted camera lens parts. The kits come in closed packaging, and purchasing one box includes all six types. A single-item purchase is also available at 1,980 yen including tax. The set is being sold through Premium Bandai, with reservations currently open. The kits are designed for easy assembly and diorama display, and can be painted freely for additional customization. The line is published by MegaHouse under the VAKIT brand, with the film credited to Sunrise.

May 16

New Votoms Anime Confirms Staff and Two-Film Release

Bandai Namco Filmworks announced that Armored Trooper Votoms: Die Graue Hexe will reach Japanese theaters as a two-part film series. The first part opens on November 20, 2026. The date arrived with a new trailer and key visuals. Original Votoms creator Ryōsuke Takahashi returns as supervising director. Kenji Kawai, known for his work on Mobile Suit Gundam 00, is composing the score. Mechanical design duties go to Yoshihiro Sono, who worked on Votoms: AT Stories, and Shinobu Tsuneki, whose credits include Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These. The project was first revealed in January 2026. The second film does not yet have a date. Bandai Spirits and Megahouse, two Bandai Namco subsidiaries, will produce merchandise tied to the films. Bandai Spirits plans a High Grade model kit and a Hi-Metal R figure of the Scopedog in a desert color scheme. Megahouse will release 8cm model kits in its VA-KIT Platoon line. More merchandise details are expected at the 64th Shizuoka Hobby Show, which runs May 16 and 17 at Twin Messe Shizuoka.