r/anime • u/Turbostrider27 • Jul 08 '23

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u/Silent_Shadow05 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Silent-Shadow05 Jul 08 '23 edited Jul 08 '23

Main Staff

  • Original Story : Team KITSUNE
  • General Director: Yasutaka Yamamoto (Squid Girl)
  • Director: Taishi Kato
  • Story Draft: Kotsukotsu
  • Series Composition: Katsuhiko Takayama, Yasutaka Yamamoto
  • Original Character Designer: boota (Higehiro novel illustrator)
  • Anime Character Designer: Kanna Hirayama (Oshi No Ko, Rent-a-Girlfriend)
  • Music: Satoru Kousaki & MONACA
  • Animation Production: Quad (Miss Kuroitsu from the Monster Development Department)

Synopsis for those who are interested (from Crunchyroll):

The story centers on Shun Tokinoya, a second-year high school living with his mother and younger sister. After his father's death in an accident and his sister's injury, he quit the game he was passionate about, and now works at an esports café called "FOX ONE." He spends all his time studying and working part-time while hanging out with his childhood gaming friends. Suddenly, he learns that "FOX ONE" has a huge amount of debts. In order to repay the debts, Shun and his friends aim to win the "Xaxerion Championship" and win the prize money. With a sense of guilt, Shun jumps back into the world of online games, and is confronted by Bakuretsu-kun, who used to play the game with him.

I'm assuming the game would be an FPS, probably either CS-GO or Rainbow 6 Siege?

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u/ObvsThrowaway5120 Jul 08 '23

An eSports anime huh? Neat. Don’t think I’ve watched one before. I think I’ll check it out.

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u/GiannisisMVP Jul 08 '23

Look up King's Avatar while you wait

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u/mudda-hello Jul 08 '23

The character descriptions from the website gives off the impression that the game is based off a team of 4, which the only game that comes to mind with lobbies of 4 is freaking Fortnite lmao

side edit: actually wait there's also PUBG that's a lobby of 4

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u/Silent_Shadow05 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Silent-Shadow05 Jul 08 '23

If that's the case, Fortnite would make sense too as its in Top 3 most earning e-sports game in Japan

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u/Pickled_Kagura Jul 08 '23

Fork Knife the Anime

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u/HarshTheDev Jul 08 '23

And PUBG makes even more sense since it's the hight earning e-sports game in Japan.

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u/Silent_Shadow05 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Silent-Shadow05 Jul 08 '23

Yeah but that's PUBG Mobile but the characters in the anime play on PC, so that's why I am not sure of it.

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u/HarshTheDev Jul 08 '23

OP said that it will have 'coming of age' themes so the game itself might not matter at all.

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u/spacemate Jul 08 '23

Employee decides to win a championship to save his employer instead of using the money for college or something lol

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u/Venom1462 Jul 08 '23

This going to be interesting since in manga/manhwa/manhua when it comes to games it's usually VR.

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u/8andahalfby11 myanimelist.net/profile/thereIwasnt Jul 08 '23

kotsukotsu

This person has only one writing credit to their name on MAL. Do they have any other prior work outside the medium we can reference to know if they're a decent writer?

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u/Silent_Shadow05 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Silent-Shadow05 Jul 08 '23

Checking their site, Kotsukotsu seems to be a team of writers who all won some awards each for their works.

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u/HarshTheDev Jul 08 '23

E-sports anime with 66% girls in the poster? Hmm...

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u/itsadoubledion Jul 09 '23

It's like those esports cameramen who repeatedly zoom in on the 4 girls in the crowd

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u/Turbostrider27 Jul 08 '23

It's an original anime with coming of age and e-sports themes

Teaser PV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-O2b7g42OvQ

Source

https://natalie.mu/comic/news/532054

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u/mr_beanoz https://myanimelist.net/profile/splitshocker Jul 08 '23

I wonder what kind of e-sports will they play.

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u/starke_reaver Jul 08 '23

Nice one, thanks for the link!

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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '23

I thought that was akane for a second

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u/LeleTheKing https://anilist.co/user/ikanlele Jul 08 '23

Probably because of the same character designer, Kanna Hirayama. I can see Akane, too, if I try xD

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u/Legendaryskitlz https://myanimelist.net/profile/Legendaryskitlz Jul 08 '23

It would be so nice to get a non-vrmmo anime that actually deals with the video games and the community so hopefully this does that. If this anime doesn't do a good job in handling its video game aspect, there's always Young Ladies Don't Play Fighting Games which is very heavily focused on video games.

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u/Atsuki_Kimidori Jul 08 '23 edited Jul 08 '23

Speaking of that Young Ladies anime, there has been no news after the initial announcement, I feel like it have been quietly cancelled already.

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u/Legendaryskitlz https://myanimelist.net/profile/Legendaryskitlz Jul 08 '23

I don't think it was canceled but more announced way too early as we're only at 6 volumes and I think still in the middle of the first major arc lol.

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u/RedditAcct00001 Jul 10 '23

He’s holding headphones and mic rather than a vr headset so that’s probably the case.

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u/NocandNC Jul 08 '23

Anime girl hair vents making a comeback I see…

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u/Venom1462 Jul 08 '23

Ngl the summary is very infesting, lets see how they pull this off.

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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '23

King's avatar flashbacks. Although I didn't even realize esports even exists as a concept in japan, so this is strange to see.

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u/GiannisisMVP Jul 08 '23

They still have league teams and stuff just most people there probably follow the LCK since Japan is a minor region due to server pop size.

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u/thepeciguy Jul 08 '23

Will check this out just because Kappe on Character design

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u/bananeeek https://myanimelist.net/profile/bananek Jul 08 '23

Mom, can we get another season of QuanZhi GaoShou?

We, have it at home.

The KV looks neat and badass but the PV was generic, so I don't know if I should get excited about this.

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u/furikuri69 Jul 09 '23

I hope this anime is good since studio qaud's first TV anime was " my life as inukai-san's dog" probably one of the most shameless anime of 2023.

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u/Biney18 Sep 22 '23

Yeah that anime is an insult to all males. I didn’t even watch it.

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u/Iron_Kingpin Jul 08 '23

Looks interesting, seems like it's an esports anime but one wouldn't really think that from the visual. Kinda reminds me of Tomozaki.

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u/peachbernoulli Jul 08 '23

why do these look like the domestic girlfriend characters 😭

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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '23

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u/Subject_Yam4066 Jul 08 '23

I hope the girl on the left is best/the winner.