Staff of 'Lycoris Recoil' Short Movies 'Friends are Thieves of Time.' Announced

by Vindstot
Jan 18, 2025 1:43 AM | 16 Comments

The LycoReco Produce: Okinawa Event Commemorative Stream unveiled the staff, key visual (pictured), and title for the short movies on Saturday. Titled Lycoris Recoil: Friends are Thieves of Time., the six short movies will be set at Café LycoReco, showcasing new slices of life featuring Chisato and Takina.

Staff
Episode 1
Script: Shingo Adachi (Lycoris Recoil)
Director, Storyboard: Takashi Sakuma (16bit Sensation: Another Layer)

Episode 2
Script: Imigimuru (Kono Bijutsu-bu ni wa Mondai ga Aru! original creator)
Storyboard: Shingo Adachi
Director: Tsuyoshi Tobita (Make Heroine ga Oosugiru! episode director)

Episode 3
Script: Shuu Mori (Wotaku ni Koi wa Muzukashii production assistant)
Director, Storyboard: Kouta Mori (Sousou no Frieren episode director)

Episode 4
Script: Yoshikazu Tominaga (Ore dake Level Up na Ken)
Director, Storyboard: Takayuki Kikuchi (Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai: Tensai-tachi no Renai Zunousen episode director)

Episode 5
Script: Ken Yamamoto (Uma Musume: Pretty Derby - Shin Jidai no Tobira director)
Director, Storyboard: Motoki Nakanishi (Koi wa Futago de Warikirenai)

Episode 6
Script: Shingo Adachi
Director, Storyboard: Masayuki Sakoi (Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online)

As part of the celebration, a Lycoris Recoil-themed manhole cover will be installed near Kinshi Park in Tokyo's Sumida Ward in late March. Additionally, Okinawa's Blue Turtle café, featured in the anime, is hosting a collaboration event until March 16.

The original Lycoris Recoil anime aired in 13 episodes in Summer 2022. Aniplex of America licensed the anime in North America and streamed it on Crunchyroll, with a subsequent English dub. A new anime project was announced in February 2023.

Lycoris Recoil marked the directorial debut of Shingo Adachi at A-1 Pictures. Asaura (Ben-To manga) penned the script, and Imigimuru designed the characters. Shuuhei Mutsuki (Sansha Sanyou) composed the music.

Official site: https://lycoris-recoil.com/shortmovie/
Official X: @lycoris_recoil

Source: animate Times

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Please don't let these movies end up being a "Japanese theater exclusive", with the rest of the world having to wait for at least a year to watch them.

ColourWheel said:
This type of thing 1st happened to "Girls und Panzer". It was moderately successful at 1st until the fans noticed the type of formula being used for each film ending each time almost exactly the same way while all the hype started to die out due to how long one would have to wait in-between each new film. Where to this day there is still no news for "das Finale Part 5" or "das Finale Part 6", for an original franchise over a decade old now.

Sad, but true.

Actas held back GuP's success with their dirt slow release intervals between each Das Finale installment. They should take a page from the Space Battleship Yamato reboot, which ensured the gap between each film installment did not last for a year or more.

Jan 23, 2025 4:12 PM by Alpha-Nine

This should be fun, but I also hope we get a real sequel eventually.

Jan 20, 2025 9:39 PM by malvarez1

dont care about this or Makeine, can Imigimuru focus on finishing Konobiju instead?

Jan 19, 2025 8:52 PM by MichaelJackson

@Tropisch I don't know what it was like with characters from other countries, but I still remember how much GuP was popular in Eastern Europe thanks to the aforementioned "tank games" and collaborations involving "Soviet" characters. Katyusha is probably still one of the most iconic Russian anime characters. But in our time, I haven’t seen people remember this franchise as a whole for a long time.

Jan 19, 2025 1:25 PM by RobertBobert

@RobertBobert It helped in the beginning of GuP's popularity there were tank games that did collabs with it, and it was promoted a lot in Japan apparently, but the lack of marketing for the movies overseas is probably what killed that big amount of popularity, in exachange for more animation quality, they got less fans. Sad, but I'm just gonna hold and wait till the last two movies of it just to finish the series. Also, they barely have new figures of the characters either, especially the new characters, which probably took a hit to the revenue of the series.

Jan 19, 2025 12:02 PM by Tropisch

I don't care about hype or not. The movie thing makes no sense, but if they're good also don't care. It's solidly in my PTW list.

Jan 18, 2025 1:55 PM by SuperAdventure

@ColourWheel @Tropisch It's really shocking and impressive in a bad way when you compare how big these franchises were in the first place and to what level their hype dropped during the "era" of films. Looking at GuP's current situation, I still find it hard to accept that they only had one season of anime. This development for PriPri makes more sense since it was mostly a seasonal hit, if you know what I mean, but GuP was so popular and ubiquitous in the 00s (including a mountain of manga that developed the universe, even alternatively, much wider than series) that it always seemed to me like it was a huge franchise with tons of anime.

This makes me wonder about the reasons for this decision for LR, since this show was one of the most successful (not even only among the original ones) anime in recent years in general. To the point that many tried to repeat this with their titles. They really didn't even try to develop this further?

Jan 18, 2025 8:37 AM by RobertBobert

@RobertBobert Nah, doubt it sadly. I'm probably gonna be in my 30's by the time all the GuP and PP movies are out. Which is crazy since I watched both of them when I was a teenager.

Jan 18, 2025 8:21 AM by Tropisch

RobertBobert said:
@Yubisoft They already did this with Princess Principal and it effectively killed the hype of the franchise.

This type of thing 1st happened to "Girls und Panzer". It was moderately successful at 1st until the fans noticed the type of formula being used for each film ending each time almost exactly the same way while all the hype started to die out due to how long one would have to wait in-between each new film. Where to this day there is still no news for "das Finale Part 5" or "das Finale Part 6", for an original franchise over a decade old now. It's as if the producers realize this franchise is completely dying and there is no urgency to conclude the story. It's almost been a full decade in it self since the rollout of this 6 part film idea. lol

Jan 18, 2025 7:17 AM by ColourWheel

as someone who wasnt a fan of this i think i might be okay with this. ive been severely disappointed with tv series format more often than not so seeing a slightly higher quality in short movie is alright to compensate the slow release dates

Jan 18, 2025 4:48 AM by cunnylicious

@Yubisoft They already did this with Princess Principal and it effectively killed the hype of the franchise. Although who knows, maybe they will make a second season if the films are popular? At least that was the case with the new Grisaia.

Jan 18, 2025 2:38 AM by RobertBobert

anyway hideo kojima will love this news

Jan 18, 2025 2:13 AM by deg

@deg I know. Where does it say that this S2 and not yet another spin off movie or short series? I am waiting

Jan 18, 2025 2:11 AM by Yubisoft

@Yubisoft https://myanimelist.net/anime/54440/

Jan 18, 2025 2:04 AM by deg

One of the most shameless milking of the fans' excitement for new anime content I have seen. Why not a season 2?

Jan 18, 2025 1:58 AM by Yubisoft

more takina best girl is always welcome

Jan 18, 2025 1:45 AM by deg