The
official website for Monster Strike: Deadverse Reloaded, the first
anime in the franchise to air on television, confirmed that the series will
premiere on October 21. The broadcast will be broadcast
through Tokyo MX and on more than 45 channels throughout
Japan, with an expected duration of one cour (a television
quarter).
Main
staff and new promotional visual
Along with
the release date, a new promotional image and the full roster
of the production team were presented. The direction will be in charge of Masao
Ōkubo (Record of Ragnarok) at the Yumeta Company studios,
with the production in the hands of ARCH. Noriyuki Nakamura (Shoot!
Goal to the Future) will serve as assistant director, while Hayato
Kazano (Classroom of the Elite) and Jin Haganeya (Guilty
Crown) will supervise and write the scripts.
Character
design will fall to Kazumi Inadome (Un-Go). Other notable
staff members include:
- Creature
Design: Takaaki Sekizaki
- Color
Design: Aiko Yamagami (T.D.I.)
- Art direction: Shingo Kanai (Kusanagi)
- Background Art: Hideyasu Narita
(Kusanagi)
- 3DCG Address: Takema Sawamura (Felix
Film)
- Cinematography: Takeo
Ogiwara (Graphinica)
- Edition: Yūji Kondō (REAL-T)
- Sound
Direction: Yasunori Ebina
- Sound
Production: Magic Capsule
- Music: MIRACLE
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Monster Strike's trajectory in anime
The
franchise was born as a mobile video game from MIXI, released
in Japan in 2013 for iOS and Android, with an English version
in 2014 that closed in 2017. The game also came to Nintendo 3DS in
2015.
The first
anime in the franchise, Monster Strike the Animation, debuted
online in October 2015 with 52 episodes. Since then, the saga has added
multiple seasons, specials and spin-offs focused on characters
such as Arthur, Lucifer and Solomon. In 2019, new installments such as Arthur
Kishiō no Kakusei and Noah Hakobune no Kyūseishu were
released, while Lucifer: The Final Arc debuted in 2020 with
English subtitles.
The
franchise also explored innovative formats, such as the Hareruya: Fated
Choice anime (2020), which allowed viewers to decide the ending in
real-time through platforms such as YouTube and Abema TV.
Monster
Strike on the big screen
The saga
has had several films. The first, Monster Strike The Movie, was
released in December 2016. Later came Sora no Kanata in 2018
and Lucifer Dawn of Despair in 2020, the latter available
on Crunchyroll since August 2021.
With Deadverse
Reloaded, the franchise is set to go one step further and conquer
traditional television in Japan.
