Agents of the Four Seasons: Dance of Spring Novels Get TV Anime at Wit Studio
Wit Studio announced on Thursday that it will produce a television anime adaptation of Kana Akatsuki's Agents of the Four Seasons: Dance of Spring novel series. Novel illustrator Suoh drew an illustration to commemorate the news.Ken Yamamoto (Uma Musume Pretty Derby: Beginning of a New Era, Pokémon: Hisuian Snow) is directing the series at Wit Studio. Kazuhiro Furuhashi (director for Mobile Suit Gundam UC, Getbackers, Spy×Family) is the animation adviser. Ayumu Hisao (I'm in Love with the Villainess, Kono Oto Tomare!: Sounds of Life) is overseeing the series scripts, and Namiko Torii is the character designer.Other staff members include: Yen Press has licensed the overall Agents of the Four Seasons novel series, and it describes the first volume of Agents of the Four Seasons: Dance of Spring: The novel series currently consists of two Dance of Spring novels, two Dance of Summer novels, the The Archer of Dawn novel, two Dance of Autumn novels, and the Tasogare no Ite (Archer of Dusk) novel. Suoh illustrates the novels.The novels topped the 2022 edition of Takarajimasha's Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi! (This Light Novel Is Amazing!) guidebook's New Title category in 2021.Nappa Komatsuda launched a manga adaptation of Agents of the Four Seasons: Dance of Spring in Hakusensha's LaLa magazine in July 2022. Hakusensha published the fifth volume on February 5. Yen Press is releasing the manga in English.Yuriko Asami launched a separate manga titled Shunka Shūtō Daikōsha Moka Momoyo (Agents of the Four Seasons: Hundred Songs, Hundred Leaves) in May 2023 on the Kadocomi website. Kadokawa released the manga's second volume in December 2024.Akatsuki's Violet Evergarden novel series won the grand prize in the fifth Kyoto Animation Award program's novel category in 2014. Akatsuki published the novels under Kyoto Animation's KA Esuma Bunko label. The novels inspired a television anime in 2018, a side story anime in 2019, and a theatrical anime sequel in 2020.Sources: Agents of the Four Seasons: Dance of Spring anime's website, Comic Natalie
