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First Staff and Details on Gamers! Anime Announced

Written By Samantha Ferreira March 20, 2017

Sadly, this has nothing to do with Akiba’s famed Gamers store.

The latest issue of Kadokawa’s Dragon Magazine revealed the first details on the upcoming Gamers! anime project. The magazine revealed that the title will be an TV series, in addition to the title’a main staff members.

Gamers! will be based on Sekina Aoi and illustrator Saboten’s light novel series of the same name. Manabu Okamoto will direct the show at studio Pine Jam, with Tensho Sato providing character designs. Hiroki Uchida is in charge of series composition.

Gamers! began publication in 2014 under Fujimi Shobo’s “Fujimi Fantasia Bunko” imprint. The title spans seven volumes, with the most recent hitting stores on March 18. The title inspired a four-panel manga series by Aoi and illustrator Yamucha, which currently runs in Dragon Magazine.

Gamers! is a romantic comedy, which revolves around the lives of various high school students who play video games. The cast includes:

Keita Amano: A lonely gamer
Chiaki Hoshinomori: A girl who constantly fights with Keita
Karen Tendo: A beautiful young lady who’s also president of her school’s video gaming club.
Tasuku Uehara: A student who puts on a façade of a satisfied life, though he secretly drowns his life in video games.

Source: Anime News Network

Filed Under: News Reporting

Tag(s): fujimi shobo, gamers, kadokawa

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Samantha Ferreira

Samantha Ferreira is Anime Herald’s founder and editor-in-chief. A Rhode Island native, Samantha has been an anime fan since 1992, and an active member of the anime press since 2002, when she began working as a reviewer for Anime Dream. She launched Anime Herald in 2010, and continues to oversee its operations to this day. Outside of journalism, Samantha actively studies the history of the North American anime fandom and industry, with a particular focus on the 2000s anime boom and bust. She’s a huge fan of all things Sakura Wars, and maintains series fansite Combat Revue Review when she has free time available. When not in the Anime Herald Discord, Samantha can typically be found on Bluesky.

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