New Fate/Grand Order Anime Teased By Sony President
This week Sony Entertainment held its annual Sony IR (investor relations) Day. Higher-ups in the [...]
This week Sony Entertainment held its annual Sony IR (investor relations) Day. Higher-ups in the company such as President/CEO Kazuo Hirai and Music Entertainment CEO Rob Stringer showed investors the future of the enterprise in Tokyo. One project that stood out to audience is when Hirai discussed the future of Fate/Grand Order. With the smartphone RPG being ultra popular among anime fans, with over 9 million downloads in Japan alone. At the event, it was announced that there will be more anime and and extension to the franchise.
Fate/Grand Order currently has one anime special titled Fate/Grand Order: First Order that released on new year of this year. Crunchyroll describes the film below:
The Chaldea Security Organization was founded to focus on preserving the continuation of human history. They observe a world which magecraft couldn't observe, and science couldn't measure, all to prevent the certain extinction of humanity. But one day, the future that Chaldea continued to observe disappears and humanity's extinction in 2017 becomes clear. Based on the assumption that Fuyuki, a provincial town in Japan, is the reason for humanity's extinction, Chaldea issues an order to explore, investigate, and possibly destroy this singularity – a quest for the Holy Grail, the Grand Order.
It looks likes fan will be getting more story behind the Fate/Grand Order universe as plans for a full series were shown. Although no specific details about the upcoming series are known yet, a picture showing the upcoming future releases lists the Fate/Grand Order anime (seen below).
The popular role playing game also has a stage play adaptation realeasing this summer as well. The play is set to run in Tokyo at the Zepp Blue Theater from July 14 to July 17. Tickets will go on sale with a pre-sale lottery period from May 20 to may 24th.
Sakurako Fukuyama is directing the play and writing the script. Akane Ōtsuka, Keita Haga, and Hideyuki Fukasawa are composing the music.
The cast for the play includes:
- Hiroki Sana as Bedivere
- Akari Nanawo as Mash Kyrielight
- Yu Takahashi as Artoria Pendragon
- Ryo Saeki, Renna Okada (double-cast) as Ritsuka Fujimaru
- Kento Ono as Lancelot
- Daichi Yamaguchi as Gawain
- Daisuke Kikuta as Tristan
- Chihiro Kai as Mordred
- Jay as Agravaine
- Shunsuke Nishikawa as Arash
- Reo Honda as Ozymandias
- Ririka as Leonardo da Vinci
- Takuya Ide as Romani Archaman