K (TV series)

K
Promotional artwork for the anime featuring the main cast of characters.
Genre	Action, science fantasy[1][2]
Created by	GoRA GoHands
Manga
K: Memory of Red
Written by	GoRA
Illustrated by	Yui Kuroe
Published by	Kodansha
Magazine	Aria
Demographic	Shōjo
Original run	May 28, 2012 – August 15, 2013
Volumes	3
Anime television series
Directed by	Shingo Suzuki Hiromichi Kanazawa[a] Susumu Kudō[a]
Produced by	Hiroo Maruyama Haruki Hayashi Gō Nakanishi
Written by	Tatsuki Miyazawa (GoRA)
Music by	Mikio Endō
Studio	GoHands
Licensed by	Crunchyroll[b] NA: Viz Media
Original network	MBS, TBS, CBC, AT-X, BS-TBS
English network	NA: Neon Alley SEA: Animax Asia
Original run	October 5, 2012 – December 28, 2012
Episodes	13 (List of episodes)
Further information Manga K: Stray Dog Story Written by GoRA Illustrated by Yui Kuroe Published by Kodansha Magazine good! Afternoon Demographic Seinen Original run November 2012 – March 2013 Volumes 1 Manga K: Days of Blue Written by GoRA Illustrated by Yui Kuroe Published by Kodansha Magazine Aria Demographic Shōjo Original run November 5, 2013 – July 28, 2014 Volumes 2 Manga K: The First Written by GoRA Illustrated by Rin Kimura Magazine GFantasy Demographic Shōnen Original run December 18, 2013 – March 18, 2015 Manga Gakuen K Written by GoRA Illustrated by Jirō Suzuki Magazine Monthly GFantasy Demographic Shōnen Original run January 18, 2014 – January 18, 2016 Manga K: Lost small world Written by GoRA Illustrated by Yoru Ōkita Magazine Hatsu Kiss Demographic Shōjo Original run June 13, 2014 – June 13, 2016 Manga K: Countdown Written by GoRA Illustrated by Yui Kuroe Published by Kodansha Magazine Aria Demographic Shōjo Original run December 27, 2014 – July 28, 2015[3] Anime film K: Missing Kings Directed by Shingo Suzuki Hiromichi Kanazawa[a] Produced by Haruki Hayashi Written by GoRA Music by Mikio Endō Studio GoHands Licensed by AUS: Crunchyroll NA: Viz Media UK: Anime Limited Released July 12, 2014 (2014-07-12) Runtime 73 minutes Video game Gakuen K: Wonderful School Days Developer Otomate Publisher Idea Factory Genre Visual novel Platform PlayStation Portable, PlayStation Vita Released PlayStation Portable October 30, 2014 PlayStation Vita October 22, 2015 Manga K: Missing Kings Written by Hideyuki Furuhashi Illustrated by Haruto Shiota Published by Square Enix Magazine Monthly GFantasy Demographic Shōnen Original run April 18, 2015 – August 18, 2015 Manga K: Dream of Green Written by GoRA Illustrated by Yui Kuroe Published by Kodansha Magazine Aria Demographic Shōjo Original run September 28, 2015[3] – February 28, 2016 Anime television series K: Return of Kings Directed by Shingo Suzuki Hiromichi Kanazawa[a] Produced by Haruki Hayashi Hiroshi Kamei Kō Ōno Written by Yashichiro Takahashi (GoRA) Music by Mikio Endō Studio GoHands Licensed by AUS: Crunchyroll NA: Viz Media UK: Anime Limited Original network MBS, TBS, CBC, BS-TBS, AT-X English network SEA: Animax Asia Original run October 3, 2015 – December 26, 2015 Episodes 13 (List of episodes) Manga K: Return of Kings Written by Hideyuki Furuhashi Illustrated by Haruto Shiota Published by Square Enix Magazine Monthly GFantasy Demographic Shōnen Original run October 17, 2015 – present Anime film series K: Seven Stories Directed by Shingo Suzuki Produced by Haruki Hayashi Hitomi Saitō Written by Rei Rairaku (GoRA) Music by Mikio Endō Studio GoHands Licensed by AUS: Crunchyroll BI: Anime Limited NA: Viz Media Released July 7, 2018 (2018-07-07) – December 1, 2018 (2018-12-01) Runtime 59–66 minutes Films 6 (List of films)
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K (also called K Project) is a Japanese anime series created by the animation studio GoHands and GoRA, a group consisting of seven anonymous authors known as Kōhei Azano, Tatsuki Miyazawa, Yukako Kabei, Yashichiro Takahashi, Hideyuki Furuhashi, Suzu Suzuki, and Rei Rairaku. The series is directed by Shingo Suzuki, who also serves as its character designer. It began airing on MBS on October 5, 2012. The anime has been licensed by Viz Media in North America and by Madman Entertainment in Australia. The series is set when Japan is secretly being ruled by seven Kings of psychic clans called the Seven Clans of Color. Yashiro Isana, a seemingly normal student of Ashinaka High School, is targeted by HOMRA of the Red Clan and Scepter 4 of the Blue Clan, following the murder of pacifist Tatara Totsuka from HOMRA. With the help of a highly skilled swordsman named Kuroh Yatogami and a feline Strain with the ability of sensory interference named Neko, Yashiro rediscovers his true identity.

A manga prequel called K: Memory of Red, drawn by Yui Kuroe was serialized in Kodansha's Aria between May 28, 2012 and August 15, 2013.^[4] Another prequel manga, K: Stray Dog Story, ran in Kodansha's good! Afternoon between November 2012 and March 2013. A third manga K: Days of Blue, was serialized in Kodansha's Aria between November 2013 and July 2014, and a fourth, K: Countdown, ran in Aria from December 2014 to July 2015, while a fifth, K: Missing Kings, ran in Monthly GFantasy from April to August 2015. Five more manga series; K: The First, Gakuen K, K: Lost small world, K: Dream of Green, and K: Return of Kings, are also still ongoing. Furthermore, two light novels, called K Side:Blue and K Side:Red, were released in October and November 2012. A third light novel called K Side:Black and white was released in May 2013 and another one, K - Lost small world was released in April 2014.

A sequel film was released on July 12, 2014.^[5] A visual novel is also in development by Otomate.

A sequel anime project was announced on the official Twitter account of the series. The new anime series, K: Return of Kings, aired from October 3, 2015 to December 26, 2015, rounding up the anime series and delivering its ending.^[6]

A new anime project featuring an original story by GoRA and GoHands, titled K: Seven Stories, has been green-lit. GoHands and Shingo Suzuki are returning to produce and direct the anime, respectively. ^[7]

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