The spring season already has its main
contender to dominate the theme of time travel. The production committee behind
the animated adaptation of Fate Rewinder (known in Japan
as Unmei no Makimodo Shi) released its first promotional video,
marking the April 2027 calendar for its official debut on
Japanese television. To ensure its global reach from day one, the streaming
platform Crunchyroll immediately confirmed that it will be in
charge of the simultaneous distribution of this peculiar series about temporal
policemen.
When we review the names involved in the
production, it is clear that this project has enviable financial and creative
backing. The talented Rie Matsumoto takes the reins of
directing within the Bones Film facility, ensuring visually
explosive sequences and a frenetic narrative pace. Control of the scripts rests
with Kimiko Ueno, while Satoshi Murai will orchestrate the original soundtrack.
All this technical deployment is being coordinated under the supervision
of Story Inc., a production company that rarely fails when choosing
which franchises to promote.
From the pages of Coro Coro to television
The premise of this story puts us in the shoes
of Chrono, a boy whose right eye possesses the power to turn back time. As a
member of a highly specialized police unit, his job is to alter history to
avoid tragic fates, accomplishing unpredictable missions ranging from romantic
entanglements to the prevention of large-scale terrorist attacks. This plot was
born in January 2022 within the pages of the magazine Coro Coro Comics,
written and illustrated by mangaka Fūta Kimura. Its success was so
aggressive that it was nominated at the prestigious Shogakukan Manga Awards in
2023, accumulating twelve compilation volumes to date and proving that its
universe has enough weight to make the definitive leap to anime.
