Wit Studio announced on Thursday that it will produce a television anime adaptation of Kana Akatsuki's Agents of the Four Seasons: Dance of Spring novel series.
Novel illustrator Suoh drew an illustration to commemorate the news.
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Ken Yamamoto (Uma Musume Pretty Derby: Beginning of a New Era, Pokémon: Hisuian Snow) is directing the series at Wit Studio. Kazuhiro Furuhashi (director for Mobile Suit Gundam UC, Getbackers, Spy×Family) is the animation adviser. Ayumu Hisao (I'm in Love with the Villainess, Kono Oto Tomare!: Sounds of Life) is overseeing the series scripts, and Namiko Torii is the character designer.
Other staff members include:
- Visual Development, Image Board: Satomi Maiya / Yūtarō Kubo
- Art Director: Yūsuke Takeda (Bamboo)
- Color Design: Ayaka Nakamura (Wit Studio)
- Director of Photography: Keisuke Nozawa (Graphinica Sappporo Studio)
- Editing: Keisuke Yanagi / ACE
- Sound Production: Tohokushinsha
- Sound Director: Eriko Kimura (Tohokushinsha)
- Animation Producer: Joe Ōtani
- Line Producer: Keisuke Satō
Yen Press has licensed the overall Agents of the Four Seasons novel series, and it describes the first volume of Agents of the Four Seasons: Dance of Spring:
Once upon a time, there was Winter.Winter was once the only season in the world-but such an existence was too lonely to bear, and so it created Spring to love. Before long, the earth wished for more time to rest in the cycle, and Summer and Autumn were born. The ones who carry the cycle are called the Agents of the Four Seasons. Hinagiku, the Agent of Spring, disappeared from this land ten years ago, taking the season of spring with her. Now, after incredible hardship, she has returned to restore the cycle to its proper state-and, as in the myth passed down since the dawn of time, she sends her love to Winter.
The novel series currently consists of two Dance of Spring novels, two Dance of Summer novels, the The Archer of Dawn novel, two Dance of Autumn novels, and the Tasogare no Ite (Archer of Dusk) novel. Suoh illustrates the novels.
The novels topped the 2022 edition of Takarajimasha's Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi! (This Light Novel Is Amazing!) guidebook's New Title category in 2021.
Nappa Komatsuda launched a manga adaptation of Agents of the Four Seasons: Dance of Spring in Hakusensha's LaLa magazine in July 2022. Hakusensha published the fifth volume on February 5. Yen Press is releasing the manga in English.
Yuriko Asami launched a separate manga titled Shunka Shūtō Daikōsha Moka Momoyo (Agents of the Four Seasons: Hundred Songs, Hundred Leaves) in May 2023 on the Kadocomi website. Kadokawa released the manga's second volume in December 2024.
Akatsuki's Violet Evergarden novel series won the grand prize in the fifth Kyoto Animation Award program's novel category in 2014. Akatsuki published the novels under Kyoto Animation's KA Esuma Bunko label. The novels inspired a television anime in 2018, a side story anime in 2019, and a theatrical anime sequel in 2020.
Sources: Agents of the Four Seasons: Dance of Spring anime's website, Comic Natalie
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