This is the next expected bet of the Japanese company Level-5: announced in 2016 for release in 2017, the transmedia project Megaton-kyū Musashi, which will initially be available in animated adaptation and video games, has been completed. eventually wait a lot longer than expected, but Knows was given a release date today - at least, for her anime.
New madness for Level-5
This is the kind of project that Level-5 likes: for nearly a decade, the Japanese publisher has been increasing franchises through a particularly aggressive transmedia approach. We remember the madness that gripped Japan at the start of the previous decade with its hit comet Yokai Watch , the popularity of which fell as quickly as it rose. If Level-5 continues to produce Yokai Watch games and its animated adaptation has nevertheless had some success outside the archipelago, its influence in Japan is far from equaling the heights of yesteryear. Another franchise that suffered a similar fate: that of the sports shonen Inazuma Eleven, also declined in anime and video games, finally left aside for lack of having held the attention of the public. More recently, Snack World has tried to rekindle the publisher's flame, without really finding success.
Megaton-kyū Musashi thus represents Level-5's next attempt to find his goose that lays the golden eggs, but many delays have upset his exit schedule. It is finally on October 1st that this Super Robot anime will broadcast its first episode on the BS Fuji and Tokyo MX channels.
Megaton-kyū Musashi depicts a dystopian future where humanity, practically reduced to nothing as a result of an invasion, must survive in shelters and where their memories are controlled to make people forget the external threat. Hope rests on three young pilots assigned to pilot three different robots capable of combining into a single giant mecha named Musashi. No broadcast date has been given outside the archipelago
