During a recent livestream event which featured game developer Marvelous and its Honey∞Parade Games production studio, Marvelous revealed that a second season of the TV anime adaptation of their Senran Kagura series has been green-lit. No further details about the upcoming anime series were revealed during the announcement.
The series producer behind Senran Kagura, Kenichiro Takaki, also revealed on Sunday that the game series has sold a worldwide total of more than 1.65 million copies. He further remarked that he was once told that if the original game “sold 30,000 units, it would be great.” He also said, “Sales aren’t everything, but it’d be great if it sold more. It’d be nice to have some pocket money, right?”
Senran Kagura: Peach Beach Splash visual:
Senran Kagura is a video game series developed by Tamsoft and produced by Marvelous Entertainment. The franchise revolves around groups of female ninjas, and has received several manga adaptations. An anime television adaptation produced by Artland aired in Japan between January and March 2013. The anime has been licensed by Funimation Entertainment in North America.
By August 2017, worldwide sales for the games in the series had passed 6.5 million copies.
Senran Kagura synopsis:
The Hanzo Academy is a prestigious prep school with a secret known only to a select few. Behind its walls is a training course for shinobi; trained spies and assassins that centuries ago had served the shoguns for their political and military needs. Today the tradition continues with five young female trainees with diverse personalities: the care-free Asuka, fierce yet perverted Katsuragi, the sweet and innocent Hibari, stoic and protective Yagyuu, and their mature, class representative, Ikaruga.
Senran Kagura tells the story of these five girls and their secret journey to complete their shinobi training. The journey quickly becomes more complicated than they expect though when a darker, more sinister group of shinobi reveal themselves. Not only do they know of the girls at the Hanzo Academy, but they seem fully intent on and capable of proving themselves to be the superior, modern day shinobi.
Through honing their skills, harnessing the power of their secret scrolls to perform shinobi transformations, and working together as a team, Asuka and her friends must rise to meet this new challenge. Not just for the sake of their training, but for the everything the Hanzo Academy stands for.
You can visit the anime’s website here: http://senran.tv/
View the franchise site here: https://senrankagura.marv.jp/
And follow their Twitter: @senran_kaguraPR
Source: Dengeki Online, ANN
