The official Twitter account of the anime adaptation of Front Wing’s Grisaia visual novels has revealed that Maon Kurosaki and Yoshino Nanjou will be returning in the upcoming sequel anime project to perform the Opening and Ending themes of the new series respectively. Additionally, it has also been revealed that the anime itself may air this April.
The official Twitter of the anime has revealed both the Opening and Ending themes of the Grisaia no Rakuen anime and that Maon Kurosaki and Yoshino Nanjou will be returning from the first anime to perform them. The OP will be Setsuna no Kajitsu performed by Maon Kurosaki and the ED will be Tasogare no Starlight by Yoshino Nanjou.
TVアニメ「グリザイアの楽園」のOP，EDテーマが決定！ OPは黒崎真音さん http://t.co/DBQkCs6N2H EDは南條愛乃さん http://t.co/WiqcDgzcAU がそれぞれ担当いたします。詳しくは各アーティストHPをご確認ください。 #grisaia
— TVアニメ「グリザイアの果実」 (@grisaia_anime) February 25, 2015
Maon Kurosaki, the artist singing the OP, has revealed via Twitter that the upcoming sequel anime to Grisaia no Kajitsu will be airing this April. At the anime’s announcement, it was revealed that it would be airing this March with the first episode being 60 minutes long. Neither of the two air windows have been re-confirmed.
お知らせです！ 5月13日に黒崎真音のニューシングルの発売が決定しました！タイトルは『刹那の果実』。4月から始まるTVアニメ「グリザイアの楽園」のOP曲です。お楽しみに！ MAON KUROSAKI OFFICIAL FAN CLUB http://t.co/0rX0tM6tii — 黒崎真音 (@kurosakimaon) February 25, 2015
The Grisaia no Kajitsu anime aired from October last year during the Fall/Autumn 2015 anime season for a total of 13 episodes. The main cast of the anime’s first season includes:
- Takahiro Sakurai (Shougo Makishima in Psycho-Pass) voicing as Yuuji Kazami
- Hiroko Taguchi (Miyako Miyamura in ef: A Tale of Memories.) who voices Amane Suou
- Ryouko Tanaka (Yuiko Kurugaya from Little Busters!) voicing Yumiko Sakaki
- Kaori Mizuhashi (Mami Tomoe from Mahou Shoujo Madoka★Magica) as Michiru Matsushima
- Tomoe Tamiyasu (Rin Natsume from Little Busters!) who voiced Makina Irisu
- Ai Shimizu (Mio Kisaki from Walkure Romanze) voicing as Sachi Komine
The anime’s production staff consists of:
- Director: Tanaka Motoki (Kiniro Mosaic)
- Character Designer: Watanabe Akio (Bakemonogatari, Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai/The World God Only Knows)
- Series Composition: Kurata Hideyuki (Tokyo Ravens, Oreimo)
- Animation Studio: 8-Bit (IS: Infinite Stratos, Tokyo Ravens)
Grisaia no Kajitsu: Le Fruit De La Grisaia is a visual novel by Front Wing that originally released on February 15 2011 for Windows. The novel features character designs from Akio Watanabe and Fumio (Tomoyo After ~It’s a Wonderful Life~), scenarios written by Nachi Kio, Ryuta Fujisaki, Yoshigazu Kuwashima, and Kazuya, with Elements Garden (Mouretsu Pirates) composing the music. The visual novel won the 2011 Moe Game Awards grand prize, as well as various other awards for its scenario and music. Two sequels followed the release of the original, in 2012 and in 2013. The first novel was ported to the PlayStation Portable and PlayStation Vita last year. Additionally, a manga adaptation began serialization last February.
Here is a synopsis of Grisaia no Kajitsu from MAL:
Mihama Academy—on the surface, a closed learning environment established to nurture students who find themselves at odds with the world around them; in actuality, an orchard-cum-prison built to preserve fruit that has fallen too far from its tree. Whatever the circumstances behind its establishment, Mihama Academy is at present home to five female students, all with their own reasons for “enrollment.” For better or worse, each girl has established a routine obliging of her current situation; life moves at an idle, yet accommodating pace within the walls of Mihama.
Yet with the arrival of the institute’s first male student, the nearly preposterously opaque Kazami Yuuji, the students at Mihama begin to fall out of step with their predetermined rhythms. Will Yuuji prove to be the element the girls around him needed to take hold of their lives once more, or will the weight of their pasts prove too steep a wall to overcome?
The sequel anime of Grisaia no Kajitsu will be covering Grisaia no Meikyuu and Grisaia no Rakuen and will be airing either in March or April on Tokyo MX, Sun TV, KBS Kyoto, BS11, and AT-X, during the Spring 2015 anime season. The first episode of the anime will be a 1 hour special. More information about the upcoming anime will be revealed at a later date.
You can find the anime’s official website here: http://www.grisaia-anime.com/
And their official Twitter here: @grisaia_anime
“Grisaia no Kajitsu”, “Grisaia no Meikyuu”, “Grisaia no Rakuen”, “Grisaia no Kajitsu: Le Fruit De La Grisaia”, images and all associated brands and titles © 2015 Front Wing and 8-Bit