Fans of the WIXOSS franchise have more anime coming later this year as it’s been revealed that a new fall project is coming with Lostorage conflated WIXOSS. Details are light at the moment but it’s expected to be a continuing season from Lostorage incited WIXOSS that teased more at the end of it. It’s not made clear whether it’ll be a TV or movie project.
The staff for that season changed up in a big way from the previous series as Katsushi Sakurabi directed it with Michihiro Tsuchiya handling the scripts. Takamitsu Satou worked on the character designs and it was animated at JC Staff.
The Japanese cast includes Chinami Hashimoto as Suzuko Homura, Yuka Iguchi as Chinatsu Morikawa, Shizuka Itou as Lil, Hisako Kanemoto as Mel, Shiori Izawa as Nanashi, Yurika Kubo as Honna Mikage, Kazuyuki Okitsu as Shō Narumi, Shinsuke Sugawara as Shōhei Shirai, Yuri Yamaoka as Aaya, Aya Suzaki as Dōna, Saori Goto as Guzuko, Junji Majima as Sō Sumida, Natsumi Hioka as Rio Oshiba, Asuka Nishi as Kagari Yukino, Hitomi Nabatame as Yukime and Yūichi Nakamura as Satomikō.
Plot Concept: High school student Homura Suzuko has returned to Ikebukuro, the town where she grew up. “We’re friends forever!” She treasures her memories of her old friend from when she was little, Morikawa Chinatsu, and she’s excited at the prospect of meeting her again. But when she gets to school, she finds she has trouble fitting in with the rest of the class.
One day, she decides that if she learns to play the card game Wixoss, she might be able to make some friends. She stops at a card shop on her way home and buys a deck set. When she takes the set home and opens it, the girl on one of the cards begins to move, and speak. “Welcome, Selector.”
Humans chosen as Selectors must battle for control of the five coins that hold all their memories. If they can retake all the coins, they win, and can leave the game. But if they lose, as a penalty– “Lostorage”– What will become of Suzuko as she’s caught up in this insane game? And just like Suzuko, Chinatsu finds herself drawn into the game as well…
アニメの情報も少し出させていただきました！
1st Animationということで、
まず一つのconflatedストーリーを今秋皆様にお届けさせていただく予定です。まだ１クールを駆け抜けるわけではありません。
今後の発表をお待ちください。#WIXOSS pic.twitter.com/QciXRWuej5— WIXOSS公式アカウント (@wixoss_TCG) April 8, 2017
