TV anime "Azur Lane" to start airing in October 2019! Key Visual Revealed!

The key visual and airing date of "Azur Lane," which will be adapted into a TV anime, have been announced.

Azur Lane" is a game application for smartphones based on the anthropomorphic ship theme distributed by Yostar. In addition to the smartphone game, it is a popular work that has been adapted into a radio program, manga, and novel. In the original game, the player takes on the role of a commander in a shooting game in which he or she fights against enemies by training anthropomorphic ships and leading the fleet he or she has built.
The TV anime adaptation was announced at the Japanese version's first anniversary event on September 15, 2018, and further news has been awaited, but now a teaser visual has finally been unveiled. The teaser visual has now been unveiled, and a teaser PV has also been released.
The popular application game with over 6 million registered users will be adapted into a TV anime! Azur Lane" teaser visual and PV released!


The key visual of the TV animation "Azur Lane"
has been released.
The key visual depicts the "Union" carrier Enterprise (CV: Yui Ishikawa) and the "Royal" light cruiser Belfast (CV: Yui Horie) standing side by side and running across the sea in the heat of battle. The visuals foreshadow their future activities.


It was also announced that the anime will begin airing in October 2019.
The story of the ships, which are divided into two camps, "Azur Lane" and "Red Axis," and fight to protect their friends from the danger of mankind, with their own beliefs and feelings, will finally open this fall.

Along with the announcement of the new key visual, the official website has also been renewed, so be sure to check it out.

It was also announced that Yohei Kisara of Stray Cats, the music producer of the anime, will be in charge of producing the music for the character song series of the TV animation "Azur Lane," which will be released in September.
In addition, a serial code will be included in each CD volume, which can be used in the "Azur Lane" game.


Product Information
<Character Song Series of TV Animation "Azur Lane

Contents: 1 solo song + 1 solo version of the common song of the whole series + off vocal of each song
Price: 1,200 yen each (excluding tax)
Price: 1,200 yen each (excluding tax) ・Specifications: Newly-drawn jacket illustration
First production run includes: Jacket illustration round sticker
Sold by: Stray Cats Inc.
Distributor: Avex Pictures, Inc.

■"Azur Lane" Character Song Single Vol.1 Enterprise

Artist:Enterprise (CV. Yui Ishikawa)
Release Date: September 25, 2019
Part Number:XNST-10003
*The actual CD jacket may differ.


■"Azur Lane" TV Animation Character Song Single Vol.2 Raffy

Artist:Raffy (CV. Maria Naganawa)
Release Date:October 9, 2019
Part Number:XNST-10004
*The actual CD jacket may differ.


■"Azur Lane" TV Animation Character Song Single Vol.3 "Javelin
Artist:Javelin (CV. Nozomi Yamane)
Release Date:October 23, 2019
Item number:XNST-10005

■TV Animation "Azur Lane" Character Song Single Vol.4 Ayanami
Artist:Ayanami (CV. Ip Daichi)
Release Date:November 6, 2019
Item Number:XNST-10006

■"Azur Lane" TV Animation Character Song Single Vol.5 Z23
Artist:Z23(CV. Rika Abe)
Release Date:Nov. 20, 2019
Part Number:XNST-10007

App Information

Azur Lane" is an application game for smartphones.
Azur Lane" is a side-scrolling shooting RPG application game (for Android/iOS) in which players fight against enemies by organizing beautiful girl characters personified as ships.
It has both auto mode and manual mode, making it fun to play even for those who are not good at shooting games.

Work Information] *Honorifics omitted.
■TV anime "Azur Lane

Broadcasting starts in October 2019!

<Worldview>
The story takes place on a blue planet, unknown to us, where 71% of the earth's surface is covered with water.
The "Sirens", a strange-shaped enemy suddenly appeared from another world. In order to counter the overwhelming power of this foreign enemy,
Humanity has formed a global alliance, "Azur Lane," centered on four major camps.

Union" that respects freedom
The "Royal," which values glory
Iron-Blooded," which praises unity
Shigesakura," which honors the bonds that bind us together

The "Cube" was created by combining the wisdom of these people,
The girls with the power of warships of steel.
Sometimes heroic, sometimes beautiful, sometimes dynamic, they transcended the barriers between camps,
The invasion of the Sirens was halted, and their power seemed to have been almost completely defeated.

However, it was not because of a difference in philosophy as to whether the Sirens' power should be used or not, or perhaps it was because of their thoughts as human beings,
or because of their feelings as human beings.
Some of the forces represented by "Shigesakura" and "Tekketsu" left "Azur Lane" and started their activities as "Red Axis",
and started their activities as "Red Axis".

In order to monitor the movement of such "Red Axis",
Azur Lane" established a new base in the middle of the ocean and gathered its forces.
The situation is in a state of crisis. No one knows the fate of the girls yet. ......

<Introduction
Blessed are the blue seas!

The girls of "Azur Lane" are on the verge of a major attack by the mysterious enemy "Sirens" from outside the world,
The girls of "Azur Lane" defeated the great offensive of the mysterious enemy "Sirens" who came from outside the world.
However, the battle will always be the same.
Just as humans once fought for supremacy over the sea,
Azur Lane" and "Red Axis" were at loggerheads due to differences in philosophy.
And as time goes by...

<Staff
Based on "Azur Lane" (Smartphone application game for Android/iOS) by Manjuu Co.,Ltd. and Yongshi Co.,Ltd.
Director Tenshu
Series Composition by Jin Kouya
Character Design
Chief Animation Director Masayuki Nonaka
Art Director Toshihiko Goto
Art Director Yoshinori Shiozawa
Color Designer Kanako Hayashi
CG Director Ryo Kimura
Director of Photography Daisuke Chiba
Editing Mutsumi Takemiya
Sound Director Masaki Tsuchiya
Sound Production Dax Production
Music by Yasutomo Nishiki
Music Production Stray Cats
Animation Production Vively Animation Studio

<Casting
Enterprise Yui Ishikawa
Akagi NAKAHARA Mai
Ayanami Daichi Ip
Raffy Naganawa Maria
Javelin Kimi Yamane
and others

(C) Manjuu Co.,Ltd., Yongshi Co.,Ltd. & Yostar Inc./"Azur Lane" Production Committee

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