The live-streamed “Workshop 25th Anniversary Program #5” announced that on Sunday Cow Tecmo Games’ Atelier Ryza: Always Dark & the Secret Hideout role-playing game is inspiring a TV anime this summer.
Tokoyami no Joō to Himitsu no Kakurega Animation features the game’s returning main cast. Ema Yuzuriha is directing the anime at LIDEN FILMSand Yashichiro Takahashi (Shakugan no Shana) returns from the game to check the series scripts. Tomoyuki Shitaya (Bakuman., Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma ) draws the characters. Kazuki Yanagawa returns from the game to compose the music.
Cow Tecmo Games’ Gust brand launched Atelier Ryza: Always Dark & the Secret Hideout for the PS4, Switch and PC via steam in North America in October 2019. The game launched in Europe in November 2019, and in Japan in September 2019. Cow Tecmo America published Gust’s Atelier Ryza 2: Lost Legends & the Secret Fairy in January 2021 for PS4, Switch, PC via steam, and digitally for PS5. This sequel was set three years after the first game in the franchise. The two games combined have over 1.6 million units shipped worldwide.
The Atelier Ryza 3: Alchemist of the End & the Secret Key (Ryza no Atelier 3 ~Owari no Renkinjutsushi to Himitsu no Kagi~) game was originally planned for release in Japan for the PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, and Switch on February 22, and in the US on the same platforms and PC your steam February 24. Gust and Cow Tecmo America has delayed the release of the PS4, PS5 and Switch game until March 23rd (March 24th in the West) and the release of the game on PC via PC. steam until March 24.
Source: “Workshop 25th Anniversary Program #5” via Hachima Kikō