Starship Troopers

Starship Troopers is a 1959 novel by Robert A. Heinlein. The novels were translated and published in Japan under the title Warriors of Space (宇宙の戦士) with the cover illustrations by founding member of Studio Nue, Naoyuki Katoh. Immensely popular in Japan, the novel received an OVA adaptation by Sunrise in 1988 with mecha designs provided by Katoh's colleague Kazutaka Miyatake. In 2012, the CGI-anime film Starship Troopers: Invasion, directed by Shinji Aramaki, was released by Sony Pictures as a sequel to the loose film adaptation from 1997, featuring protagonist Johnny Rico in the rank of General.