The latest issue of Dengeki PlayStation has first details on the newly announced Little Witch Academia: The Witch of Time and the Seven Wonders through an interview with the anime production team and game producer Yosuke Futami.

Here are the tidbits:

The game is a beat ’em up that moves like an anime through its “Visual Harmony System.” Players will move throughout every nook and corner of a huge academy.

The focus is on the action side of the game.

They’re aiming for a sense of the game being half action and half daily life.

The appearance of the world is close to that of the TV anime series. It’s still a secret where they’re pulling stories from. There will be original stories, too.

The scenario was proposed by the game production team. Hardly anything had to be modified.

The team is considering elements to put it in the game while following along the TV anime broadcast.

There are a considerable number of characters in the game, including mobs.

Producer Yosuke Futami: “When I saw the anime movie and the TV anime, I felt that it was fate. I immediately starting working on planning for a game project and brought it in.”

Little Witch Academia: The Witch of Time and the Seven Wonders is due out for PlayStation 4 in Japan in 2017.

Thanks, Games Talk, Ryokutya2089, and Dengeki Online.