The "'KanColle' Shinshun Chinjufu Jazz Matsuri 2019 in Nippon
Budōkan" (KanColle Chinjufu Naval Base New Year's Jazz Festival 2019 in
Nippon Budōkan) event on Friday confirmed that the KanColle franchise is getting a new
television anime series.
Studio Engi —
the new 2D/3D animation studio that publisher Kadokawa, pachinko and pachislot game machine maker Sammy, and anime holding company Ultra Super
Pictures established last
April — is producing the new anime. The event debuted a promotional video for
the anime, but the staff have not yet streamed the video online.
The final
episode of the first television anime series had revealed in March
2015 that the television anime would get a sequel. The anime's official Twitter
account indicated in August 2015 that the movie and the sequel were
separate projects that went into production at the same time.
The first
12-episode TV anime series premiered in January 2015 and Crunchyroll streamed the series as it aired in Japan. Funimation released the series on DVD and Blu-ray Disc with English
subtitles and an English dub in June 2017.
The Kantai Collection:
KanColle film opened in
Japan in November 2016, and earned 560 million yen (about US$5 million) by
March 2017.
The anime is
based on a web browser game that launched in 2013, and is set in a world where
humanity has lost control of the seas. The threat that has taken over the seas
is the "deep sea fleet." The only ones who can counter this threat
are Kan-musume (literally, warship girls), girls who possess the spirit of
naval vessels from days gone by.
The base for
the fleet arrayed against the "deep sea fleet" is Chinjufu. There,
many various Kan-musume have gathered to live together and work hard everyday
in training and other matters. One day, a Kan-musume arrives at Chinjufu. She
is a special class of destroyer, and her name is Fubuki.
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