is an original Japanese

anime is hand-drawn and computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside of Japan and in English, ''anime'' refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, in Japan and in Japanese, (a term derived from a shortening of ...

television series co-animated by

Studio Gokumi is a Japanese animation studio established by former Gonzo members. History Studio Gokumi, literally meaning "Studio Group 5", was founded in May 2010 after members of Gonzo's Studio Number 5 left the company to start one of their own. Studio N ...

and

AXsiZ is a Japanese animation studio established on July 7, 2011. It is best known for co-animating series with Studio Gokumi such as '' Pandora in the Crimson Shell: Ghost Urn'', ''Seiren is an original Japanese romantic comedy anime television ...

. The series aired from October to December 2020, while a

manga Manga ( Japanese: 漫画 ) are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long prehistory in earlier Japanese art. The term ''manga'' is use ...

adaptation by Hato Kannazuki was serialized from July 2020 to May 2021 in ''

Monthly Comic Alive is a Japanese seinen manga magazine published by Media Factory. The first issue was released on June 27, 2006. Serialized titles *'' Absolute Duo'' *'' Alice or Alice'' (until 2015, part of the supplement magazine '' Comic Cune'') *''Ano Ko ni ...

''.

Characters

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Other characters

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Media

Light novel

light novel A light novel (, Hepburn: ''raito noberu'') is a style of young adult novel primarily targeting high school and middle school students. The term "light novel" is a '' wasei-eigo'', or a Japanese term formed from words in the English language ...

written by Touko Machida and illustrated by Kagami Yoshimizu was released on December 10, 2020 entitled by

Kadokawa Shoten , formerly , is a Japanese publisher and division of Kadokawa Future Publishing based in Tokyo, Japan. It became an internal division of Kadokawa Corporation on October 1, 2013. Kadokawa publishes manga, light novels, manga anthology magazines s ...

Manga

adaptation illustrated by Hato Kannazuki launched in

Media Factory , formerly is a Japanese publisher and brand company of Kadokawa Future Publishing. History It was founded on December 1, 1986, and its headquarters are situated in Shibuya, Tokyo. It is a subsidiary of Recruit Co., Ltd. Media Factory was poss ...

's ''

'' on July 27, 2020, and it ended on May 27, 2021. Two ''

tankōbon is the Japanese term for a book that is not part of an anthology or corpus. In modern Japanese, the term is most often used in reference to individual volumes of a manga series: most series first appear as individual chapters in a weekly or m ...

'' volumes were released between November 21, 2020 and June 23, 2021.

Anime

On July 10, 2019, Kadokawa announced that an original

television series involving scriptwriter Shōta Gotō and Kagami Yoshimizu, the author of '' Lucky Star'', was in production. The series is animated by

and

, with Yuu Nobuta as director.

Touko Machida is a Japanese anime screenwriter. She debuted as a screenwriter in 2001, and in 2006 got to become the lead screenwriter for the first time with ''Ramen Fighter Miki''. Since ''Ramen Fighter Miki'', she has done screenwriting for many works, such ...

, Shōta Gotō and Joe Itou are writing the scripts, Katsuzo Hirata is designing the characters, and

Satoru Kōsaki is a Japanese music composer and arranger. He is best known for his work on anime, including ''Lucky Star'', '' The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya'', ''Monogatari'' and ''Beastars''. He worked at Namco, where he primarily composed soundtracks for ...

, Oliver Good and Keita Inoue are composing the series' music. The series was originally scheduled to premiere in July 2020, but was delayed to October 2020 due to the

COVID-19 pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The novel virus was first identified ...

. The series aired from October 11 to December 27, 2020. Act 0 of the series premiered on October 4, 2020.

Funimation Crunchyroll, LLC, previously known as Funimation from 1994 to 2022, is an American entertainment company owned by Japanese conglomerate Sony as a joint venture between Sony Pictures and Sony Music Entertainment Japan's Aniplex that specializ ...

acquired the series and is streaming it on its website in North America and the British Isles, and on AnimeLab in Australia and New Zealand. The series ran for 12 episodes.

Notes

References

External links

Anime official website
* {{AXsiZ 2020 Japanese novels 2020 anime television series debuts Anime postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic Anime with original screenplays AT-X (TV network) original programming AXsiZ Funimation Media Factory manga Seinen manga Studio Gokumi