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Shinobanai! CryptoNinja Sakuya Anime's 3rd Season Debuts on July 7
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Shinobanai! CryptoNinja Sakuya San no Maki.
The anime will premiere on Hulu, and other services in Japan.
New cast include: Fukuko Yukimiyama. No character credits were given for the new cast.
Polar Bear's Café) is again writing the scripts.
The project describes the anime as "the world's first television anime series for NFT characters." The first season premiered in October 2023, and the second season debuted in January 2024.
In the story of the first season, the Crypto Scroll enshrined in the ninja city of Kōka has been stolen, leading to a battle royale among ninja. Sakuya, Nemu, and Xiaolan were living their daily lives until they must unite their forces.
Investor Ikehaya produced the CryptoNinja NFT project in 2021 with illustrations by Rii2 linked to digital tokens. The project had described itself as Japan's largest and most active NFT community in 2022 with 15,000 Ether (about 50 million yen or US$430,000 in February 2022) earned from a community of over 50,000 fans and creators.
The anime studio Fanworks (Tokyo Otaku Mode, startup incubator platform Tsucrea, and digital content company The Battle announced the anime plans in February 2022. The project then debuted its first anime promotional video and began auditioning cast and musicians in November 2022.
The franchise is getting a picture book that will release on June 30.
Sources: Press release, Fanworks
