The
official website for Grimms Notes the Animation, the television anime of Square Enix's Grimms Notessmartphone
game, began streaming a new promotional video for the series on Friday.
The
video reveals the anime will premiere on TBS on January 10 late
at night at 1:58 a.m. (effectively January 11). The anime will also air on BS-TBS late at night on January 12 (effectively January 13). Square
Enix has already indicated that the anime will not be
composed of five-minute episodes.The site also revealed a new key visual.
The
anime stars:
Ryota Ohsaka as Ekusu
Reina Ueda as Reina
Miyu Kubota as
Shane
Takuya Eguchi as Tao
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Takahiro Mizushima as Loki
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Sumire Uesaka as Curly
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Miyu Kubota as Alice
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Risa Taneda as Akazukin (Little
Red Riding-Hood)
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Reina Ueda as Cinderella
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Aoi Yūki as Shirayuki-hime
(Snow White)
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Junji Majima as Robin Hood
Seiki Sugawara (RIN-NE, D-Frag!) is directing the anime
at Brains Base. Hiroshi Yamaguchi is in charge of the
series scripts, and Kentarou Matsumoto is designing the
characters. Fumiyuki Go is directing the
sound, and Mirai Kodai Gakudan is composing the music.
Ayana Taketatsu will perform the opening theme song "Innocent
Notes," and idol unit i☆Ris will perform the ending theme song "Endless
Notes." Miyu Kubota, who also voices the main
character Shane, is a member of i☆Ris.
Characters from classic fairy tales and stories, such as Alice in Wonderland, Aladdin and the
Magic Lamp, and Cinderella,
appear in the original game. The game takes place in a world created by a beings
known as "Story Tellers." At birth, all inhabitants of this world are
bestowed with a "book of fate" where all their lives are written in
advance. However, rogue Story Tellers known as Chaos Tellers are writing bad
events into people's books without them knowing. It is up to the holders of
blank books of fate to seek out the Chaos Tellers and restore the world.
The game
launched for iOS and Android devices in Japan on January 21, 2016 and has since
garnered more than 17 million downloads. The game is free to play with in-game
item purchases. Square Enix released the Grimms Notes Repage major
update for the game in January.
Korean game
publisher Flero Games released the game in South Korea, the United
States, Canada, and 27 European countries including the United Kingdom, France,
and Germany on March 2.
Sources: Grimms Notes the Animation anime's website, Comic Natalie
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