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The World Ends with You Anime Gets a Slick New Trailer, Release Month

The World Ends with You: The Animation anime Square Enix

Today is a big day forĀ The World Ends with You fans. Not only does the sleeper JRPG finally have a sequel coming out, but Square Enix has also announced the premiere date for the upcoming anime based on the first game, The World Ends with You: The Animation. The show will premiere in April 2021 in Japan. There’s no Western release date yet, but Funimation has been tapped to handle its release. The show dropped a new trailer as well, which seems to play out and look exactly like the game did.

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With original character designers Tetsuya Nomura and Gen Kobayashi both involved in the project, that makes plenty of sense. It doesn’t look like the The World Ends with You anime is going to deviate too much from the game in terms of characters or plot, which follows a group of teenagers sucked into a deadly competition called the Reaper’s Game. The story has reportedly been altered a bit to fit the longer runtime, and it will take place now, not in 2007 when the original game released.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY5ybJ7OEA4

It’s weird that there’s so much activity aroundĀ The World Ends with You now after more than a decade of dormancy. It’s like someone finally got through to Square Enix that it might have a successful IP on its hands if it did something with it, so it’s going all in now. The DS game has garnered a devoted following over the past 13 years and was recently re-released on Nintendo Switch.

It’s not clear when we’ll see the The World Ends with You anime come to U.S. shores, but given Funimation is already involved, it will probably be quickly after the Japanese debut and land either on its streaming platform or Crunchyroll.

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Matthew Razak
Matthew Razak is a News Writer and film aficionado at Escapist. He has been writing for Escapist for nearly five years and has nearly 20 years of experience reviewing and talking about movies, TV shows, and video games for both print and online outlets. He has a degree in Film from Vassar College and a degree in gaming from growing up in the '80s and '90s. He runs the website Flixist.com and has written for The Washington Post, Destructoid, MTV, and more. He will gladly talk your ear off about horror, Marvel, Stallone, James Bond movies, Doctor Who, Zelda, and Star Trek.
Matthew Razak
Matthew Razak is a News Writer and film aficionado at Escapist. He has been writing for Escapist for nearly five years and has nearly 20 years of experience reviewing and talking about movies, TV shows, and video games for both print and online outlets. He has a degree in Film from Vassar College and a degree in gaming from growing up in the '80s and '90s. He runs the website Flixist.com and has written for The Washington Post, Destructoid, MTV, and more. He will gladly talk your ear off about horror, Marvel, Stallone, James Bond movies, Doctor Who, Zelda, and Star Trek.

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