The live-streamed “Atelier 25th Anniversary Program #5” announced it on Sunday Cow Tecmo game’ Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout RPG is inspiring a TV anime this summer.
Tokoyami no Joō to Himitsu no Kakurega Animation features the returning main cast from the game. Ema Yuzuriha is directing the anime on LITTLE MOVIEand Yashichiro Takahashi (Shakugan no Shana) returns from the game to oversee the series’ scripts. Tomoyuki Shitaya (Bakuman., Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma ) designs the characters. Kazuki Yanagawa returns from the game to compose the music.
Cow Tecmo Games’ Gust brand launched Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout for PS4, Switch and PC via Steam in North America in October 2019. The game launched in Europe in November 2019 and in Japan in September 2019. Cow Tecmo America released Gust’s Atelier Ryza 2: Lost Legends & the Secret Fairy in January 2021 for PS4, Switch, PC via Steam, and digitally for PS5. That sequel was set three years after the first game in franchise. The two games combined have shipped over 1.6 million units worldwide.
That Atelier Ryza 3: Alchemist of the End & the Secret Key (Ryza no Atelier 3 ~Owari no Renkinjutsushi to Himitsu no Kagi~) the game was originally planned for release in Japan for PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, and Switch on February 22 and in the US on the same platforms and on PC via Steam on 24 February Gust and Cow Tecmo America delayed the game’s PS4, PS5, and Switch release to March 23 (March 24 in the West), and the game’s release on PC via Steam until March 24.
Source: “Atelier 25th Anniversary Program #5” via Hachima Kikō