The official website for the upcoming anime adaptation of Shanghai Manjuu and Xiamen Yongshi’s Azur Lane smartphone game has revealed that the series is slated to air from October.
The staff currently consists of:
- Director: Tenshou (Grisaia no Kajitsu, Rewrite)
- Series Composition: Jin Haganeya (Guilty Crown episode 8,13, 18 script)
- Character Design: Masayuki Nonaka (Rewrite)
- Music: Yasunori Nishiki
- Studio: Bibury Animation Studios (Grisaia: Phantom Trigger)
The most recent promotional video for the anime series revealed that Yui Ishikawa and Mai Nakahara are reprising their roles as Enterprise and Akagi.
In addition, a new key visual was also revealed:
Previous anime visual:
Azur Lane is a side-scrolling shoot ’em up video game created by Chinese developers Shanghai Manjuu and Xiamen Yongshi, released in 2017 for the iOS and Android operating systems. Set in an alternate timeline of World War II, players engage in side-scrolling shooter gameplay, using female moe anthropomorphic characters based on warships from the war’s major participants. Other gameplay elements, like customizing a home and marrying in-game characters, are also present.
First launched in China in May and in Japan in September 2017, Azur Lane has become very popular, especially in Japan where the player count reached five million within four months after its release. Players have voted the game among the top five on Google Play’s Best Game of 2017 list for the region. Critics have attributed the game’s popularity to its original and well-designed gameplay system. An English-language version started open beta in August 2018 and was released in May 2019.
The game has been adapted into several manga and novelizations. Azur Lane Crosswave, a 3D adaptation for PlayStation 4, will be published by Compile Heart on August 29, 2019. Crosswave’s English localization is set to be published in 2020. An anime television series adaptation is set to premiere in October 2019.
Official site: https://azurlane-anime.jp/
Official Twitter: @azurlane_anime
