#Crunchyroll – Anime Adaptation of Bkub Okawa’s Ensembukubu Stars!! Spin-off Manga to be Screened with Ensemble Stars!! -Road to Show!!

The official website for the forthcoming all-new anime feature film Ensemble Stars!! -Road to Show!!- has announced that an anime adaptation of Bkub Okawa’s (Pop Team Epic) Ensembukubu Stars!! spin-off manga will be screened with it in theaters.

Based on the events in Happy Elements’ male idol-themed game Ensemble Stars!!, the original series Ensembukubu Stars! (with one exclamation mark) was serialized in the G-style Online website for 113 episodes from July 2017 to March 2020, then its first tankobon book was published from KADOKAWA in August 2020. Now its sequel Ensembukubu Stars!! (with two exclamation marks) has been running on the site.

Since the main film is about the idols’ visit to New York, the anime adaptation is also titled Bukusuta The WORLD. Different episodes will be shown on a weekly basis, but it is not known at this time how many episodes will be produced.

The Masakazu Hishida (KING OF PRISM -Shiny Seven Stars-)-directed film Ensemble Stars!! -Road to Show!!- is set to be released in Japan on March 4, 2022. The film’s official website describes its story as below:

“Tougenkyo Guzou Ken (Shangri-la Idol Fist),” “Mayonaka no BUTLERS (Midnight Butlers),” and “La Mort,” the three films in which the Ensemble Square’s idols appeared, were nominated for the Idol Film Festival (IFF), an annual idol film festival held in New York. In order to attend the award ceremony, the idols who were chosen to represent the films headed to New York.

After participating in the film festival and reception party, the idols head out to various places in New York City to enjoy some sightseeing before the awards ceremony, but a suspicious shadow creeps up on them…

Source: “Ensemble Stars!! -Road to Show!!” official website / Twitter

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