Monster Strike: Deadverse Reloaded TV Anime Reveals October 21 Debut, Full Staff, New Visual
The official website for Monster Strike: Deadverse Reloaded, the first anime series based on MIXL's Monster Strike mobile role-playing game franchise to premiere on broadcast television, revealed on Thursday the anime will premiere on October 21. The anime will air for one cours (quarter of a year) on Tokyo MX and a total of 45 channels across Japan.The website also revealed the show's full staff and new visual.Masao Ōkubo (Record of Ragnarok, Record of Ragnarok II) is directing the anime at Yumeta Company. ARCH is producing the anime. Noriyuki Nakamura (Shoot! Goal to the Future, Zumomo to Nupepe) is the assistant director, and Hayato Kazano (Classroom of the Elite first three seasons) and Jin Haganeya (Guilty Crown, Azur Lane) are both overseeing and writing the series scripts. Kazumi Inadome (Un-Go) is designing the characters.Other staff members include: MIXL launched the original game on iOS and Android devices in Japan in 2013, and then launched it in English the next year. However, the English version ended service in 2017. A game debuted on Nintendo 3DS in Japan in 2015.The first 52-episode net anime season in the franchise, Monster Strike the Animation, premiered in October 2015. (This anime was initially announced for broadcast, but then premiered online.) The first part of the show's second season premiered in April 2017, and ran until September 2017. The 13-episode second part of the second season, titled Monster Strike the Anime: The Fading Cosmos, premiered in October 2017.The anime's third season premiered in July 2018 and ran for 12 episodes. The franchise then ran five episodes in an Arthur spinoff series, seven episodes in a Lucifer spinoff series, and 13 episodes in a Solomon spinoff series (all of which are considered part of the overall third season of the anime). The Arthur Kishiō no Kakusei (Arthur (2nd)) anime premiered in May 2019 and ran for seven episodes, and the Noah Hakobune no Kyūseishu (The Savior of Noah's Arc) anime premiered in July 2019 and ran for six episodes. Lucifer: The Final Arc (Lucifer Wedding Game) premiered with English subtitles in October 2020 and ran for seven episodes.The net anime's final arc, Monster Strike: End of the World, premiered in November 2019 on YouTube.The Hareruya: Unmei no Sentaku (Hareruya: Fated Choice) anime streamed online in September 2020 on YouTube, Twitter Live, and Abema TV. The anime is the franchise's first "interactive anime": viewers were able to choose between two options to decide how the last 10 minutes of the anime would play out. The first Monster Strike The Movie anime film opened in Japan in December 2016. Crunchyroll began streaming the film in May 2017. The second film in the franchise, Monster Strike The Movie: Sora no Kanata (Beyond the Sky), opened in Japan in October 2018. The Monster Strike the Movie: Lucifer Dawn of Despair (Monster Strike The Movie: Lucifer Zetsubō no Yoake) film opened in November 2020 after delays, and Crunchyroll streamed the film in August 2021. Sources: Monster Strike: Deadverse Reloaded anime's website, Comic Natalie
