Based on Kadokawa’s smartphone RPG “Shachou, Battle no Jikan Desu!” (also known as Shachibato! for short), “Shachibato the Animation” (社長、バトルの時間です!) reveals the 1st PV, new visual and main cast. The anime is scheduled to premiere this April.
“Persona 3 the Movie” Series Key Animation Hiroki Ikeshita (池下 博紀) is directing the series at C2C studio, while “Saga of Tanya the Evil” scriptwright Kenta Ihara (猪原 健太) penning the script and Keisuke Watanabe (渡辺 敬介) designing the characters.
▍1st PV
▍Story
It is set in a world where dimensional gates suddenly appeared in the skies, opening portals to countless dungeons. Minato is a company president who employs adventurers to take on dungeons filled with monsters for the treasures that lie within. Together with his secretaries, they “recruits” and trains fighters, mages, knights, hunters, rogues, and other classes of employees, and then dispatches the employees into battles.
▍Characters and Cast
■ Minato (ミナト) – CV: Shun Horie (堀江瞬)
■ Yutoria (ユトリア) – CV: Kana Ichinose (市ノ瀬加那)
■ Akari (アカリ) – CV: Azumi Waki (和氣杏未)
■ Makoto (マコト) – CV: Yoshino Aoyama (青山吉能)
■ Guide (ガイド) – CV: Yui Horie (堀江由衣)
■ Raiba (ライバー) – CV: Taku Yashiro (八代拓)
■ Valmi (ヴァル美) – CV: Sumire Uesaka (上坂すみれ)