Guilty Gear Strive: Dual Rulers Anime to Release in 2025

They previously announced the anime adaptation of the game and showcased a teaser trailer during Anime Expo 2024.

SANZIGEN will produce the anime adaptation. The studio, known for its specialization in CGI animation, has co-produced Ishura, Black Rock Shooter, and created various CGI animations for Fire Emblem: Three Houses.

Shigeru Morikawa, who has previously worked on Argonavis the Movie: Axia, Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, and Project A-Ko, will direct Guilty Gear Strive: Dual Rulers. Guilty Gear writer Norimitsu Kaiho, will handle series composition for the project, and Seiji Mizushima, known for Mobile Suit Gundam 00 and Fullmetal Alchemist, serves as associate producer.

Here is the story overview, from Arc System Works:

After the decline of the once robust fields of science and technology, a new energy source known as magic fuels the modern era. Humanity creates forbidden biological weapons: Gears. Those Gears eventually stand against humanity in a rebellion.

Although they manage to overcome in the struggle for survival known as the Crusades, humanity’s losses are so great that even after several decades pass, their emotional wounds remain unable to fully heal. Sin Kiske, the child of a human and a Gear, heads to his father Ky and mother Dizzy’s wedding

Their wedding breaks the ultimate taboo: a union between a human and a Gear. Even with the world at peace, it took many years for such a ceremony to come to fruition. Despite the complex array of emotions surrounding it, the wedding ceremony is met with blessings. When suddenly, a mysterious girl appears… The fated child inheriting Gear blood–and the mysterious girl who despises Gears. Their meeting would shake the world.

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