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Ani-One Streams The World Ends with You the Animation Series

Hong Kong content distributor MediaLink Entertainment Limited's Ani-One YouTube channel announced last Friday that it will stream The World Ends with You the Animation (Subarashiki Kono Sekai The Animation), the anime of Square Enix's The World Ends with You (Subarashiki Kono Sekai) action role-playing game. The stream launched on Saturday.

The anime will be available in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Laos, Macau, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, and Taiwan.

The anime premiered on April 9 on the Super Animeism programming block on MBS, TBS, and their countrywide network of 26 other affiliates.

Takeharu Ishimoto is returning from the game to compose music for the anime. He stated he created music this time based on the fact that the anime is now in a different time period and is for an anime instead of for a game.

Kazuya Ichikawa (Monster Strike the Animation, Clean Freak! Aoyama kun, Tantei Team KZ Jiken Note) is directing the anime. Midori Gotou at SANZIGEN is supervising the series scripts. Tetsuya Nomura and Gen Kobayashi (Square Enix) are designing the characters. DOMERICA (Flying Witch Petit) and Shinei Animation (Mysterious Joker, Doraemon) are producing the anime.

Ichikawa previously stated that staff kept some parts of the story and changed some parts in the anime in order to adapt it for the anime, but whether the story follows the path of the game, he stated he could not reveal that information at this time. He also stated the anime will depict Shibuya as it is today, instead of from 2007 in the game. The cell phones in the game will also be smartphones instead of flip-phones.

Nintendo's website describes the game:

Complete the mission...or face erasure. That's all Neku knows after regaining consciousness in the middle of a busy intersection without his memories. Now he and his partner must fight to survive a life-or-death game in this twisted tale with more turns than the urban labyrinth of Tokyo they're trapped in.[...]
In the crowded chaos of Tokyo, players of the Reapers' Game must complete daily missions or face total erasure. Neku might not be enthusiastic about forging relationships, but with his very life on the line, he'll need to learn how to work together with a partner—and fast: they only have seven days.

Jupiter and Square Enix developed the original The World Ends with You game that shipped for Nintendo DS in Japan in 2007 and in the West in 2008. The World Ends With You -Solo Remix- smartphone game developed by h.a.n.d launched for iOS devices in 2012, followed by Android devices in 2014. The World Ends With You -Final Remix- game shipped for the Nintendo Switch in Japan in September 2018 and launched in the West in October 2018. Characters from the game franchise also feature in the Kingdom Hearts game series.

The NEO: The World Ends with You (Shin Subarashii Kono Sekai) sequel game will launch for Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 on July 27, and on PC via Epic Games Store this summer. The game is specifically a sequel to the anime, and takes place three years later.

Source: Ani-One Asia's Facebook page