Shinobanai! CryptoNinja Sakuya Anime's 3rd Season Debuts on July 7
Fanworks announced on Saturday that the third season of Shinobanai! CryptoNinja Sakuya, the CryptoNinja non-fungible token (NFT) project's anime, will debut on July 7. Fanworks also revealed a new trailer, and announced more cast. The new season is titled Shinobanai! CryptoNinja Sakuya San no Maki. The anime will premiere on Tokyo MX on July 7 and will air on Mondays at 9:54 p.m., with each episode being five minutes in length. The show will stream on AbemaTV, U-NEXT, Hulu, and other services in Japan.New cast members include: Show Hayami, Yumika Yano, Anna Yamaki, Yuina, Hajime Sato, and Fukuko Yukimiyama. No character credits were given for the new cast.Akifumi Nonaka (Dinosaur Biyori), the anime's director since the first season, returns to direct the third season at Fanworks, and Toru Hosokawa (Dinosaur Biyori, Polar Bear's Café) is again writing the scripts. The project describes the anime as "the world's first television anime series for NFT characters." The first season premiered in October 2023, and the second season debuted in January 2024.In the story of the first season, the Crypto Scroll enshrined in the ninja city of Kōka has been stolen, leading to a battle royale among ninja. Sakuya, Nemu, and Xiaolan were living their daily lives until they must unite their forces.Investor Ikehaya produced the CryptoNinja NFT project in 2021 with illustrations by Rii2 linked to digital tokens. The project had described itself as Japan's largest and most active NFT community in 2022 with 15,000 Ether (about 50 million yen or US$430,000 in February 2022) earned from a community of over 50,000 fans and creators.The anime studio Fanworks (Aggretsuko, Ani ni Tsukeru Kusuri wa Nai!), online pop culture commerce company Tokyo Otaku Mode, startup incubator platform Tsucrea, and digital content company The Battle announced the anime plans in February 2022. The project then debuted its first anime promotional video and began auditioning cast members and musicians in November 2022.The franchise is getting a picture book that will release on June 30.Sources: Press release, Fanworks
