The official website for the six-part sequel film trilogy “ Princess Principal: Crown Handler ” revealed a promotional video on Sunday for the third film.
The video reveals that the film will be released in Japan from April 7, 2023.
Along with the video, the image below was made public:
Masaki Tachibana (Barakamon, .hack//Quantum) is returning from the previous television series to direct the films at Actas . Noboru Kimura (Gundam Build Divers, Solty Rei) is supervising and writing the scripts.
Kouhaku Kuroboshi (Kino's Journey, Sky Girls) is still credited with the character designs, while Yukie Akiya (Celestial Method, Code:Breaker) adapted the designs for animation. Additionally, Kimitake Nishio (Moetan, ToHeart2) is also designing characters for the films and is credited as the sole chief animation director. Finally, Yuki Kajiura (Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Fate/Zero) is back to compose the music with sound director Yoshikazu Iwanami .
Synopsis
The Empire is increasing counterintelligence efforts following the incident, and Control, the Commonwealth group responsible for covert operations against the Empire, is concerned and suspects its spy in the royal family of being a double agent. Control assigns its Dove spy ring a new mission: to extract the owner of a secondhand bookstore and deliver him into Commonwealth hands.
The first film premiered in February 2021. It was originally scheduled to premiere in April 2020, but the film's production committee delayed the film's release due to the COVID-19 . The second film premiered in Japan in September 2021.
Source: ANN
