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Azur Lane Franchise Gets New OVA, 5th Anniversary Animated Promo Video
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
Yostar revealed during a fifth anniversary livestream event on Saturday for the Azur Lane franchise that Tsuchii's Azur Lane Queen's Orders manga is getting an OVA.
Yostar also revealed a fifth-anniversary animated promotional video for the franchise. Yostar Pictures animated the video.
The fourth anniversary livestream event for the franchise last year had revealed that the Azur Lane Queen's Orders manga was getting "animated footage," but did not reveal any other details at that time.
The "slapstick daily-life story" centers around the tsundere character Queen Elizabeth and her school friend Warspite (the "Grand Old Lady"). Tsuchii launched this manga spinoff of Shanghai Manjuu and Xiamen Yongshi's Azur Lane smartphone game in the December 2018 issue of Ichijinsha's Monthly Comic Rex magazine in October 2018. Ichijinsha will publish the sixth compiled book volume on October 27.
In the original game for iOS and Android devices, players collect early 20th century warships from various countries and use fleets of six ships to battle enemies. Shanghai Manjuu and Xiamen Yongshi developed the game, and bilibili released it in China in May 2017. Shanghai Yostar released the game in Japan in September 2017. Yostar released an English version of the game in May 2019.
The franchise already inspired a television anime in October 2019. Funimation streamed the series with English subtitles and an English dub. Episodes 11 and 12 of the anime aired in March 2020.
Azur Lane: Slow Ahead!, a short television anime of Hori's Azur Lane Bisoku Zenshin! four-panel manga, premiered in January 2021, and Crunchyroll streamed the anime as it aired in Japan.
Update: Replaced livestream video with video of just OVA preview. Thanks, EpicMatt16.
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