The Lycoris Recoil shorts project has received an update that reveals its title (Lycoris Recoil -Friends are thieves of time.-), a key visual (featuring Chisato, Takina, Mizuki, and Kurumi), and the creators in charge of its six episodes.
The latter are:
Episode 1
• Scriptwriter: Shingo Adachi (Lycoris Recoil series director)
• Storyboard artist and episode director: Takashi Sakuma (Lycoris Recoil Episode 6 director)
Episode 2
• Name scriptwriter: Imigimuru (Lycoris Recoil character designer)
• Storyboard artist: Shingo Adachi
• Episode director: Tsuyoshi Tobita (Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines! Episode 4 and 10)
Episode 3
• Scriptwriter: Amane Mori (Lycoris Recoil design manager)
• Storyboard artist and episode director: Kota Mori (Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End Episode 16 storyboard artist and director)
Episode 4
• Scriptwriter: Yoshikazu Tominaga (Solo Leveling Episode 10)
• Storyboard artist and episode director: Takayuki Kikuchi (Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines! opening storyboard artist and unit director)
Episode 5
• Scriptwriter: Ken Yamamoto (Umamusume: Beginning of a New Era director, Tying the Knot with an Amagami Sister ED 1 and OP 2 storyboard artist and unit director)
• Storyboard artist and episode director: Motoki Nakanishi (Love Is Indivisible by Twins series director)
Episode 6
• Scriptwriter: Shingo Adachi
• Storyboard artist and episode director: Masayuki Sakoi (Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online series director)
The daily life-themed Lycoris Recoil shorts project was announced in July 2024 (an NFT project was also revealed on that date). Another Lycoris Recoil anime project was announced in February 2023, months after the end of the original Summer 2022 anime.
Lycoris Recoil is an original girls-with-guns action anime where the secret organization DA (Direct Attack) utilizes teenage female agents called Lycoris to maintain peace in Japan by preemptively stopping crimes with lethal methods. Chisato, the strongest Lycoris, and Takina, a serious-minded Lycoris, work at a DA branch called LycoReco that doubles as a legitimate cafe and provider of various services.
The A-1 Pictures-produced anime was the director and series composer debut of Adachi, who was character designer for shows like WORKING!! and Sword Art Online. Asaura (Shousetsu Knights of Sidonia: Kitto Arifureta Koi author) was the story draft writer, and Yumiko Yamamoto (Sword Art Online Alicization War of Underworld co-character designer) the sub-character designer.
The anime has inspired other media like a manga adaptation, spin-off manga, spin-off light novels, and a stage play.
Source: @lycoris_recoil (1), (2)
