New Multimedia Franchise 'Arata naru Sekai' Announced

On June 8, 2012, the official site of Arata naru Sekai (The New World) was opened to announce a new multimedia franchise headed by a collaboration between Ascii Art Media Works, Aniplex, Kadokawa Shoten, and Madhouse. The franchise consists of one whole story written by Hitoma Iruma, which will be split into the past, the present, and the future, each to be told as a novel, manga, and anime respectively. This project was started in celebration of Iruma's 5th year as an author.

Images from Official Site (all drawn by Kurehito Misaki)
key visual
characters in the past
characters in the present
character in the future

Synopsis of Franchise
The human population has been severely diminished, and tomorrow may be the day of extinction. However, the unchanging seasonal cycle passes by as always, now in the chilly days between autumn and winter. To be exact, time hasn't stopped, but the world can't go to tomorrow.

All that remain are chronologists (researchers who study time) and a few children. Time travel is finally achieved, and the young boys and girls are planned to be sent to the past and to the future in order to save the human species from extinction.

School becomes dominated by lectures regarding time travel for the aptitude test. The results classify the students into those who will go to the past, those who will go to the future, and those who will remain.

the boys who jump to the past to decipher the mysteries of the world
the girls who jump to the future in hope of witnessing prosperity
and the girls who cannot do anything more than plow their farms

"Arata naru Sekai" is a story about these children who search for a bright tomorrow.

Synopsis of Novel (past)

Synopsis of Manga (present)

Synopsis of Anime (future)

Staff
Novel Writer, Original Manga Story, Original Anime Story and Script, Lyrics: Hitoma Iruma (Denpa Onna to Seishun Otoko)
Novel Illustrations, Original Character Design: Kurehito Misaki (sample works on homepage)
Manga Artist: Kenji Ooiwa (Welcome to the NHK)
Animation: Madhouse
Music: Satoru Kousaki (Kizumonogatari)

Source: Official Site (Japanese), Cradle Homepage, Hitoma Iruma Homepage

Note: All translations made in this article are temporary and subject to revision upon official updates. The synopses for each medium have spoiler tags only to avoid lengthiness, and do not provide anything more than what is given on the homepage.

TLNote: The title is written in Japanese as アラタなるセカイ (katakana), instead of 新たなる世界 (kanji). The title can be interpreted as "The World of Arata".

Aratanaru Sekai on MAL