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Sentai Filmworks Licenses Mashiro-Iro Symphony Anime
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
Sentai Filmworks confirmed on Monday that it has licensed the Mashiro-Iro Symphony ~ The Color of Lovers television anime series. Sentai Filmworks noted the series will be available digitally "soon," and it will release the series on subtitled DVD in 2012.
The story of the original Mashiro-Iro Symphony romance adventure game centers around a boy named Shingo Uryū who goes to an academy — that is merging with a prestigious girl's school in the same town. Shingo is among the boys selected to attend the girl's school in a temporary integration trial before the schools' actual merger.
Eiji Suganuma (Kodomo no Jikan, Sasameki Koto) is directing the series at the studio Manglobe. Toshie Kawamura (The World God Only Knows, Futari wa Pretty Cure Max Heart) is handling the character design and is the series' chief animation director. The anime premiered in Japan on October 4.
Palette and character designer Tsubasu Izumi (Akane-Iro ni Somaru Saka) released the original game for Microsoft Windows in 2009, and COMFORT ported it to the Sony PSP portable console under the name Mashiro-Iro Symphony *mutsu-no-hana in June.
Crunchyroll is currently simulcasting the series in the United States and Canada. Crunchyroll had listed the series on its page for Sentai Filmworks when it announced the simulcast on Friday.
Image © 2011 Palette/Mashiro P
Update: More information and press release link added.
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