The official website for the upcoming TV anime adaptation of Cyberstep's massively multiplayer online role-playing game Onigiri today updated with a new visual featuring its nine main characters. The game started its service in Japan in December 2013, and is now also available in the US, Taiwan, Korea, and Brazil. It was previously adapted into a three-episode web anime series directed by ROMANoV HiGA (Lovely Muco) from 2013 to 2015 (you can watch the episodes in the bottom of this article).

TV anime main visual

The TV anime is produced by Pierrot Plus (Sabagebu!, Re-Kan!) and is set to premiere on Tokyo MX

and BS Fuji on April 6. Takashi Yamamoto, best known for his directorial works for Final Approach (2004),

Drops (2007), Jewelpet Twinkle☆ (2010-2011), and A Dark Rabbit Has Seven Lives (2011), is attached

to direct, alongside character designer/chief animation director Yukiko Ibe (Nanatsuiro Drops, Jewelpet

Twinkle☆) and series composition writer Takamitsu Kouno (Absolute Duo, Utawarerumono: The False Faces).

Five-member dance vocal unit STARMARIE performs the OP song "Hime wa Rankiryu☆Goikkou-sama"

(The princess is a turbulence party) and it will be released from Bushiroad Music as their 10th single

on April 20.

"Hime wa Rankiryu☆Goikkou-sama" anime edition CD jacket

Artist edition type-A

Web anime first episode (December 2013)

Web anime 2nd episode (June 2014)

Web anime 3rd episode (August 2015)

Source: "Onigiri" TV anime official website, Twitter

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