Smartphone RPG 'Onmyouji' Gets TV Anime in 2020

Chinese game developer NetEase announced a television anime based on its fantasy role-playing game Onmyouji on Thursday. Titled Onmyou Hyakki Monogatari, the anime series is scheduled to premiere in 2020. The announcement is commemorating the game's third anniversary.

Synopsis
In a time when demons and humans coexisted... Evil spirits from the underworld have begun a quest for power, strength, and dominance. The balance between the two worlds is now in jeopardy.

Fortunately, there's a group of gifted humans who can read the stars and draw amulets. They have the power to connect the two worlds, and even tame the spirits. They are willing to lay everything on the line to maintain peace and order between the two worlds. They are known as Onmyouji. (Source: NetEase, edited)

Cast
Abe no Seimei: Noriaki Sugiyama (Fate/stay night)
Kagura: Rie Kugimiya (Gintama)
Minamoto no Hiromasa: Tatsuhisa Suzuki (Servant x Service)
Yao Bikuni: Miyuki Sawashiro (Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun)

NetEase launched the adventure fantasy game for iOS and Android systems in China in June 2016, followed by Japan in February 2017 and in English in January 2018. The company ported the game for PC on Steam in April of the same year.

A short 12-episode net anime titled Yin Yang Shi: Ping An Wu Yu began streaming on bilibili in April 2018. The anime also aired under the title Onmyouji: Heian Monogatari in Japan on Tokyo MX in July that year. A second season of the net anime debuted on bilibili on August 17.

Teaser PV


Official Japanese game website: https://www.onmyojigame.jp/home.html
Official Japanese game Twitter: @OnmyojigameJP

Source: Comic Natalie

Onmyou Hyakki Monogatari on MAL