The official web site for the theatrical unique video anime (OVA) of Kaoru Hayamine‘s Kaitō Queen wa Circus ga Osuki (Mirage Queen Aime Cirque) novel revealed the anime’s visible, workers and story on Tuesday.

Saori Den (Pokémon episode director) is directing the venture at East Fish Studio, and Mariko Kunisawa (Ascendance of a Bookworm, Orient) is writing the script. Kumiko Kawashima (Fantasista Stella) is designing the characters. Moe Hyūga (Steins;Gate 0, If My Favourite Pop Idol Made it to the Budokan, I Would Die) is composing the music. Toshiki Kameyama is the sound director at Bit Groove Promotion. Pony Canyon will distribute the anime.

The web site describes the OVA:

The story facilities on the Phantom Thief Queen, who’s an individual who can steal something they want. Their gender, age, and nationality are unknown. Along with their companions Joker and RD, they fly around the globe of their airship. Now, Queen has their eyes set on a cursed jewel: the legendary “Rose of Linden.” Nonetheless, there may be an sudden incident, and a mysterious circus troupe steals the jewel earlier than Queen can. Queen will problem the varied members of the troupe, together with a hypnotist, a magician, and an acrobat, in an effort to take again the jewel. For nothing is inconceivable for Queen.

The theatrical OVA venture will will debut in 2022.

The novel sequence takes place in a world full of airships. The Kaitō Queen is somebody who by no means fails to steal what they’re after. Their age and gender is unknown. Nonetheless, a mysterious circus troupe seems, with magicians hypnotists, and people with different particular powers in its ranks. The circus troupe manages to steal the gem that Kaitō Queen is after, and challenges Kaitō Queen to a contest.

The anime commemorates the twentieth anniversary of the novel sequence. Kadokawa revealed the primary novel (pictured at proper) below its youngsters’s e-book label Aoitori Bunko in March 2002 with illustrations by K2 Shōkai. The newest novel will shippped on July 14. The venture marks the primary time the franchise is getting a video adaptation. The anime shares the identical title because the debut novel within the franchise.

Sources: Kaitō Queen wa Circus ga Osuki anime’s web site (hyperlink 2) (hyperlink 3), Comedian Natalie