A new promotional video for the next OVA project based on the video game franchise was shared on the official Twitter account. otome, Hakuouki. The video confirms that the project will consist of three parts in total, which will be published in advance on the Japanese platform U-FURTHER and later they will be released in Blu-ray / DVD format according to the following schedule:
- Part 1: November 13, 2021 (advance version) / December 24, 2021 (physical version).
- Part 2: December 11, 2021 (advance version) / January 28, 2022 (physical version).
- Part 3: January 29, 2022 (pre-release version) / February 25, 2022 (physical version).
This is also confirmed by the press release Aika Yoshioka will sing the opening song entitled “Setsuna no Kodou” while Maon Kurosaki He will sing the ending song entitled “Kenran – I’ll Never Forget You”. The most recent project in the franchise was the two-part film project Hakuouki: demon of the fleeting bloom, whose two feature films were shown in Japanese cinemas in 2013 and 2014. Idea factory released the franchise’s first video game in 2008.
Afterward, Hakuouki: Kyoto Winds debuted on the console Play Station Vita September 2015 in Japan. International idea factory released the game in May 2017 for North America and Europe and then released it on Steam for the rest of the world in August 2017.
General summary of Hakuouki
The story of the game franchise and its various adaptations revolves around the historic Shinsengumi samurai group in Kyoto in the 19th century. A girl named Chizuru Yukimura comes to Kyoto from Edo to look for her missing father. Thanks to a fateful bond with her missing father, she finds herself caught up in the conflict between the fearsome Rasetsu and the Shinsengumi (led by Hijikata and others).
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