A new main key visual for the Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin TV anime series has been released, which will begin broadcasting in Japan on July 6, 2024.
The new visual features many of the series’ main characters, including the harvest goddess Princess Sakuna.
Masayuki Yoshihara (The Eccentric Family, Komada — A Whisky Family) is directing the anime, with Mio Fujishima (Skip and Loafer sub-character designer) as character designer, Jukki Hanada (Girls Band Cry, Sound! Euphonium) as series screenwriter and scriptwriter, and Yoko Kayama (Fruits Basket remake) as art director. P.A. Works is in charge of the animation production.
The game’s main cast is reprising their roles for the anime, which include:
- • Naomi Ozora as Princess Sakuna
- • Aoi Koga as Yui
- • Hikari Kubota as Mirute
- • Miwa Kohinata as Kamuhitsuki
- • Rika Kinugawa as Kokorowa Hime
- • Rika Momokawa as Kaimaru
- • Riki Kagami as Ashigumo
- • Ryota Yano as Tauemon
- • Soma Maeda as Kinta
- • Takashi Narumi as Tama-Jii
- • Yuji Kameyama as Ishimaru
Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin is a 2020 action RPG developed by Edelweiss and published by XSEED Games and Marvelous USA, which combines 3D farming sim and 2D side-scrolling action platformer gameplay. It first launched in November 2020 on PS4, Switch, and Steam and was released on Epic Games Store in 2021. It sold over 1 million copies as of 2021.
The game’s synopsis is described as:
Long ago, the spoiled Princess Sakuna enjoyed a life of leisure in the Mihashira Capital among the gods and spirits of Yanato. But on the floating bridge of heaven separating the immortal Lofty Realm from the Lowly Realm of mortals, a chance encounter with the children of men (or, as they call themselves, the humans) led to a series of mishaps.
Alas, this culminated in their banishment to Hinoe Island, the so-called Isle of Demons. The ruling deity, Lady Kamuhitsuki, charged Sakuna with securing a foothold for the capital and rooting out the hordes of demonic beasts that plague the island. And, of course, as a goddess she must also look after the wayward children of men who were alongside her. But even a goddess needs to eat, and so the tale of rice and ruin begins…
Source: Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin Official Anime Twitter
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