So it’s time for news on the new K movie project? ‘Kay, then.
Earlier today, the official K: Seven Stories theatrical film project’s website updated with the release dates and core cast members for each project. King Records also showed off an extended trailer for the series. We break the details down below:
Trailer
The two-minute teaser features theme song Seven Stories. by angela as a background track. The trailer previews the films in action, cutting between various action shots before closing on the full list of films in the works.
Premiere Schedule
The full release schedule is as follows:
- 7/7/2018: K: Seven Stories Episode 1: R:B ~Blaze~
- 8/4/2018: K: Seven Stories Episode 2: SIDE:BLUE ~Tenrō no Gotoku (SIDE:BLUE ~Like Sirius)
- 9/1/2018: K: Seven Stories Episode 3: SIDE:GREEN ~Uwagaki Sekai~ (SIDE:GREEN ~The Overwritten World)
- 10/6/2018: K: Seven Stories Episode 4: Lost Small World ~Ori no Mukō ni (Lost Small World ~To the Far side of the Cage)
- 11/3/2018: K: Seven Stories Episode 5: Memory of Red ~BURN~
- 12/1/2018: K: Seven Stories Episode 6: Circle Vision ~Nameless Song~
Each film will be accompanied by an episode of spinoff shorts, titled The Idol K.
Casting
The major cast in each episode as as follows:
R:B ~Blaze~
- Mikoto Suoh: Kenjiro Tsuda
- Reisi Munakata: Tomokazu Sugita
SIDE:BLUE ~Tenrō no Gotoku
- Reisi Munakata: Tomokazu Sugita
- Gōki Zenjō: Kenjiro Tsuda
SIDE:GREEN ~Uwagaki Sekai~
- Nagare Hisui: Kazuyuki Okitsu
- Sukuna Gojo: Rie Kugimiya
Lost Small World ~Ori no Mukō ni
- Saruhiko Fushimi: Mamoru Miyano
- Misaki Yata: Jun Fukuyama
Memory of Red ~BURN~
- Mikoto Suoh: Kenjiro Tsuda
- Izumo Kusanagi: Takahiro Sakurai
- Tatara Totsuka: Yuuki Kaji
Circle Vision ~Nameless Song~
- Yashiro Isana: Daisuke Namikawa
- Kuroh Yatogami: Daisuke Ono
Series director Shingo Suzuki (Coppelion) will return to direct and provide character designs for the project at GoHands, with GoRA handling and overseeing the scripts. Mikio Endo is returning to score the soundtracks. Both GoHands and GoRA are credited with the original concept.
Several of the films share titles with existing works within the franchise. K: R:B, K SIDE:BLUE, and K:SIDE:GREEN are all light novels within the franchise. K: Memory of Red is a manga by GoRA and illustrator Yui Kuroe that ran from May 2012 through August 2013.
K: Lost Small World is an ongoing manga series by GoRA and illustrators Ookita and Yoru. The series, which currently runs in Hatsu Kiss magazine, received a light novel adaptation in 2014.
The K: Seven Stories film project was first announced in April 2016.
Viz Media holds the domestic rights to K, K: Missing Kings, and K: Return of Kings. The series is currently available for streaming via Hulu and Viz Media’s website.
http://www.hulu.com/watch/408515#i0,p0,d0
Source: Twitter (anime_k11)
Update 10/5/2017: A visual for K: Seven Stories was also released, which you can check out below:
