A “Light-novel Anime” project is coming that includes four different stories. The anime are designed for smart phones, and then will be reedited for TV. Let’s take a look at the trailer and the different stories and their plots!

Light-Novel Anime Project Trailer

 

First up is “Shōshin Time Leap” (translated as Heartbreak Time Leap).

Here is the announced cast:

• Tomoyo Takayanagi (Mikan Hinatsuki in The Demon Girl Next Door) plays Miri Wakana
• Shōgo Sakata (Aki Hayakawa in Chainsaw Man) plays Takashi Wase
• Miyari Nemoto (Sazanka in In the Heart of Kunoichi Tsubaki) plays Miyako Anami
• Reiji Kawashima (Suō Yobitsugi in Cardfight!! Vanguard Divinez) plays Ren Ashiya

Here is an official description:

Heartbreak Time Leap Plot

On her final Christmas in high school, Miri confesses to her classmate Takashi, but he rejects her. In her despair, she clings to a past diary. The diary envelops her in light, and Miri finds herself transported six months in the past. She uses this chance, and repeated time leaps, to try to change her future, and find out the reason why Takashi rejected her confession.

The second title is “Femme Fatale Ikusei Keikaku” (translated as Femme Fatale Raising Project).

Here is the announced cast:

• Daiki Yamashita (Violet St. George in The Ancient Magus’ Bride) plays Hiroki Adagawa
• Yūya Hirose (Yūki Wakura in Chained Soldier) plays Yamada
• Yusuke Shirai (Io Naruko in Cute High Earth Defense Club Eternal Love!) plays Suzuki
• Saho Shirasu (Rusalka in Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill) plays Kazane Kurahashi
• Satsumi Matsuda (Misha in Arknights: Prelude to Dawn) plays Tsukino Kurahashi
• Reina Kondo (Hakune in Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest) plays Yukiko Kurahashi
• Sayumi Suzushiro (Serafina de Lavillant in The Barbarian’s Bride) plays Asagi Hiyama
• Tatsumaru Tachibana (Gregory Violet in Black Butler: Public School Arc) is the Narrator

Here is an official description:

Femme Fatale Raising Project Plot

Hiroki is a high school student who is well liked and chubby. After his cute cousin Tsukino is dumped by her ex-boyfriend, Hiroki decides, “I’ll become a beautiful woman and make him fall in love with me, and then dump him!” He recruits friends and allies to help him go on a diet and transform into a femme fatale and avenge his cousin.

The third is called “Jack the Reaper.”

Here is the announced cast:

• Kaito Ishikawa (Touya Kenzaki in Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian) plays Gokurō Tokishiro
• Kaede Hondo (Hakari Hanazono in The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You) plays Komachi Nadazaka
• Kento Hama (Olivier Gaillard in Cardfight!! Vanguard: Legion Mate-Hen) plays Hayato Yazukibaya
• Hinata Tadokoro (Rizo Nakimoto in A Certain Scientific Accelerator) plays Iwao Kendō
• Nanako Mori (Misaki Unasaka in Buddy Daddies) plays Mirei Jūmanishi

Here is an official description:

Jack the Reaper Plot

A man wakes up one day in an interrogation room, with no memory of who he is and why he’s there. Before him appears a young female detective. She eventually gets angry with the interrogation and storms out, but an intruder comes in and stabs the man to death. The next moment, he’s “back” in the interrogation room.

Last but not least is the lengthily titled”Marie Antoinette ni Tensei Shita node, Zenryoku de Guillotine wo Kaihi Shimasu” (translated as Reborn as Marie Antoinette, I’ll Give it My All to Avoid the Guillotine).

Here is the announced cast:

• Fairouz Ai (Nao Umiyama in 365 Days to the Wedding) plays Antoinette
• Toshiki Masuda (Mikado Sekimura in B-PROJECT) plays Louis
• Shunichi Toki (Oliver Laurents Friedheim in 7th Time Loop: The Villainess Enjoys a Carefree Life) plays Charles
• Takeo Ōtsuka (Jinshi in The Apothecary Diaries) plays Stanislas
• Masumi Tazawa (Teresa Reidy in Akashic Records of Bastard Magical Instructor) plays Madame du Barry

Here is an official description:

Reborn as Marie Antoinette, I’ll Give it My All to Avoid the Guillotine Plot

A female otaku from the present day is reincarnated as Marie Antoinette. She refuses to let her future execution play out, so she uses her knowhow as an otaku and her passion to win over the masses — by turning Louis XVI and his brothers into an idol group.

Source: ANN

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Danica Davidson is the author of the bestselling Manga Art for Beginners with artist Melanie Westin, plus its sequel, Manga Art for Everyone, and the first-of-its-kind manga chalk book Chalk Art Manga, both illustrated by professional Japanese mangaka Rena Saiya. Check out her other comics and books at www.danicadavidson.com.