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Grimms Notes The Animation Promo Video Previews Theme Songs
posted on by Karen Ressler
The official website for Grimms Notes the Animation, the television anime of Square Enix's Grimms Notes smartphone game, unveiled a second promotional video and two more character designs on Tuesday. The video previews the opening theme song "Innocent Notes" by Ayana Taketatsu and the ending theme song "Endless Notes" by idol unit i☆Ris.
The newly unveiled character designs, with their cast members, are:
Takahiro Mizushima as Loki
Sumire Uesaka as Curly
The anime will premiere on TBS on January 10 late at night at 1:58 a.m. (effectively January 11). The anime will also air on BS-TBS late at night on January 12 (effectively January 13). Square Enix has indicated that the anime will not be composed of five-minute episodes.
The anime stars:
Ryota Ohsaka as Ekusu
Reina Ueda as Reina
Miyu Kubota as Shane
Takuya Eguchi as Tao
- Miyu Kubota as Alice
- Risa Taneda as Akazukin (Little Red Riding-Hood)
- Reina Ueda as Cinderella
- Aoi Yūki as Shirayuki-hime (Snow White)
- Junji Majima as Robin Hood
Seiki Sugawara (RIN-NE, D-Frag!) is directing the anime at Brains Base. Hiroshi Yamaguchi is in charge of the series scripts, and Kentarō Matsumoto is designing the characters. Fumiyuki Go is directing the sound, and Mirai Kodai Gakudan is composing the music.
Characters from classic fairy tales and stories, such as Alice in Wonderland, Aladdin and the Magic Lamp, and Cinderella, appear in the original game. The game takes place in a world created by a beings known as "Story Tellers." At birth, all inhabitants of this world are bestowed with a "book of fate" where all their lives are written in advance. However, rogue Story Tellers known as Chaos Tellers are writing bad events into people's books without them knowing. It is up to the holders of blank books of fate to seek out the Chaos Tellers and restore the world.
The game launched for iOS and Android devices in Japan on January 21, 2016 and has since garnered more than 17 million downloads. The game is free to play with in-game item purchases. Square Enix released the Grimms Notes Repage major update for the game in January.
Korean game publisher Flero Games released the game in South Korea, the United States, Canada, and 27 European countries including the United Kingdom, France, and Germany on March 2.
