Earlier today, the official Princess Principal anime website updated with the cast and crew, as well as a visual and trailer for upcoming film Princess Principal: Crown Handler. We break the details down below.
Trailer
The 30-second promo focuses on the film’s action scenes, as a narrator describes the major story beats.
Key Visual
The image features Ange and Princess posing on a ledge under a full moon, as the city sprawls beneath them.
Staff
Masaki Tachibana (Tokyo Magnitude 8.0, Barakamon) will return to direct the project at stuio Actas, with the team of Yukie Akiya (Princess Principal, Celestial Method) and Kimitake Nishio (Zettai Karen Children, Moetan) providing character designs. Noboru Kimura (Solty Rei, Kokkoku) is writing the film’s script.
Other confirmed crew members include:
- Music: Yuki Kajiura
- Original Character Designs: Kouhaku Kuroboshi
- Concept Art: Munashichi
- Chief Animation Director: Kimitake Nishio
- Mechanical Designer: Fumihiro Katagai
- Art Director: Miho Sugiura
- Art Designer: Goichi Taniguchi
- Art Designer: Noboru Jitsuhara
- Art Designer: Morihito Ohara
- Art Designer: Yuuho Taniuchi
- Color Key Artist: Yuko Tsumori
- Researcher: Seiichi Shirato
- Setting Collaboration: Rasenjin Hayami
- Prop Design: Ryou Akizuki
- HOA (Head of 3D Animation): Tri-Slash
- Graphic Art: Hirofumi Araki
- Compositing Director of Photography: Yu Wakabayashi
- Editor: Gō Sadamatsu
Cast
The confirmed voice cast includes:
- Ange: Aoi Koga
- Princess: Akira Sekine
- Dorothy: Yō Taichi
- Beatrice: Akari Kageyama
- Chise: Nozomi Furuki
Aoi Koga is replacing Ayaka Imamura, who retired in 2018 due to health concerns.
Princess Principal: Crown Handler will open on April 10, 2020. The film is one of six planned features, which will tell a story that follows the events of the TV series.
Princess Principal aired in the Summer 2017 broadcast season. Sentai Filmworks holds the rights to the show and streamed it as an Anime Strike exclusive simulcast.
Princess Principal is an original project form Actas and Studio 3Hz. The TV series was helmed by Masaki Tachibana, with Kouhaku Kuroboshi (Kino’s Journey) providing character designs. Ichiro Okouchi (Azumanga Daioh, Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion) was in charge of series composition and scripts.
Yuki Kajiura scored the show’s soundtrack.
Sentai Filmworks describes the title as:
At the end of the 19th century, London, the Kingdom of Albion has been split into East and West sides by a giant wall. Five girls attend Queen’s Mayfaire, a conventional and prestigious school. Under the guise of regular high school girls, they act as spies under cover. Disguise, reconnaissance, infiltration, car chases… Each girl uses their own set of special skills to dart around the world of shadow.
Source: Princess Principal Website
Princess Principal: Crown Handler Film Gets New Trailer & Visual, Main Cast & Crew Also – Samantha Ferreira
