Hakuoki

Hakuoki
薄桜鬼 〜新選組奇譚〜
(Hakuoki: Shinsengumi Kitan)
GenreOtome, historical fantasy[1]
Anime television series
Hakuoki: Demon of the Fleeting Blossom
Directed byOsamu Yamasaki
Produced by
  • Asuka Yamazaki
  • Kazuhiko Hasegawa
  • Mitsutoshi Ogura
Written by
Music byKow Otani
StudioStudio Deen
Licensed byCrunchyroll (current)
Original networkTV Kanagawa, Chiba TV, TV Saitama, KBS Kyoto, Sun TV, AT-X, Tokyo MX TV, TV Aichi
Original run April 4, 2010 June 20, 2010
Episodes12 (List of episodes)
Anime television series
Hakuoki: Record of the Jade Blood
Directed byOsamu Yamasaki
Produced by
  • Asuka Yamazaki
  • Kazuhiko Hasegawa
  • Mitsutoshi Ogura
Written by
  • Megumu Sasano (#1, 5, 8)
  • Mitsutaka Hirota (#2, 7)
  • Yoshiko Nakamura (#3, 6, 10)
  • Osamu Yamasaki (#4, 9)
Music byKow Otani
StudioStudio Deen
Licensed by
Original networkTV Kanagawa, Chiba TV, TV Saitama, KBS Kyoto, Sun TV, AT-X, Tokyo MX TV, TV Aichi
Original run October 10, 2010 December 12, 2010
Episodes10 (List of episodes)
Original video animation
Hakuoki: A Memory of Snow Flowers
Directed byOsamu Yamasaki
Produced by
  • Asuka Yamazaki
  • Kazuhiko Hasegawa
  • Mitsutoshi Ogura
Written by
  • Yoshiko Nakamura (#1, 5–6)
  • Megumu Sasano (#2, 4)
  • Mitsutaka Hirota (#3)
Music byKow Otani
StudioStudio Deen
Licensed by
  • AUS: Hanabee
  • NA: Sentai Filmworks
  • UK: MVM Films
ReleasedAugust 5, 2011 – July 27, 2012
Runtime25 minutes (each)
Episodes6 (List of episodes)
Anime television series
Hakuoki: Dawn of the Shinsengumi
Directed byOsamu Yamasaki
Produced by
  • Asuka Yamazaki
  • Mitsutoshi Ogura
  • Takashi Iwasaki
  • Yōhei Hayashi
Written by
  • Osamu Yamasaki (#1, 4)
  • Mitsutaka Hirota (#2, 6, 9)
  • Megumu Sasano (#3, 7, 10)
  • Yoshiko Nakamura (#5, 8, 12)
Music byKow Otani
StudioStudio Deen
Licensed by
  • Crunchyroll (current)
    • AUS: Hanabee
    • NA: Sentai Filmworks (former)
    • UK: MVM Films
Original networkYomiuri TV, AT-X, Tokyo MX TV, TV Kanagawa, TV Aichi, BS11, ANIPLUS
Original run July 9, 2012 September 24, 2012
Episodes12 (List of episodes)
Anime film
Hakuoki: Wild Dance of Kyoto
Directed byOsamu Yamasaki
Produced by
  • Mitsutoshi Ogura
  • Yōhei Hayashi
  • Asuka Yamazaki
  • Jun Fukuda
  • Nobumitsu Urasaki
  • Hiroshi Nishijima
Written byOsamu Yamasaki
Tsunekiyo Fujisawa
Music byKenji Kawai
StudioStudio Deen
Licensed by
  • NA: Sentai Filmworks
ReleasedAugust 24, 2013 (2013-08-24)
Runtime96 minutes
Anime film
Hakuoki: Warrior Spirit of the Blue Sky
Directed byOsamu Yamasaki
Produced by
  • Mitsutoshi Ogura
  • Yōhei Hayashi
  • Asuka Yamazaki
  • Jun Fukuda
  • Nobumitsu Urasaki
  • Hiroshi Nishijima
Written byOsamu Yamasaki
Tsunekiyo Fujisawa
Music byKenji Kawai
StudioStudio Deen
Licensed by
  • NA: Sentai Filmworks
ReleasedMarch 8, 2014 (2014-03-08)
Runtime87 minutes
Anime television series
Hakuoki: Otogisōshi
Directed byParako Shinohara
StudioDLE
Original run April 5, 2016 June 28, 2016
Episodes12
Original video animation
Directed byOsamu Yamasaki
Music byKow Otani
StudioStudio Deen
Released November 14, 2021 January 24, 2022
Episodes3

Hakuoki (薄桜鬼 〜新選組奇譚〜, Hakuōki ~Shinsengumi Kitan~, Demon of the Fleeting Blossom: The Tale of the Shinsengumi) is a Japanese otome video game series by Idea Factory, first released for the PlayStation 2 on the 18th September 2008 and ported to many other platforms. It has been adapted into an anime series by Studio Deen; the first series was broadcast from April to June 2010, and the second series was broadcast from October to December 2010. An OVA series, titled Hakuoki: A Memory of Snow Flowers and adapting from Hakuoki: Stories of Shinsengumi was released from August 2011 to July 2012. A third series based on the prequel, Hakuoki Reimeiroku was broadcast from July to September 2012. The series has also been adapted as two different manga series.

Two films were released in 2013 and 2014. The first was released in August 2013 and on DVD in February 2014. The film is a retelling of both seasons in greater detail and with a slightly different ending. The second film was released on March 8, 2014. A short anime television series adaptation of a new instalment of the game, titled Hakuoki: Otogisōshi and produced by DLE, aired from April to June 2016. A new OVA series by Studio Deen was released from November 2021 to January 2022.

The anime television series and films have been licensed by Sentai Filmworks in North America.[2][3][4] Crunchyroll acquired the streaming rights to the series after Sentai Filmworks lost the rights.[5]

  1. ^ Ross, Carlos. "Hakuouki S1 - Hakuouki Shinsengumi Kitan". THEM Anime Reviews. Retrieved January 20, 2021.
  2. ^ "Sentai Filmworks Adds Cluster Edge, Hakuoki, Upotte!! Anime". Anime News Network. 28 April 2012. Retrieved 28 April 2012.
  3. ^ "Sentai Filmworks Licenses Hakuoki Reimeiroku TV Anime". 29 June 2012. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
  4. ^ "Sentai Filmworks Licenses Hakuoki: Warrior Spirit of the Blue Sky Anime Film". Anime News Network. 14 April 2016. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
  5. ^ Hodgkins, Crystalyn (March 28, 2024). "Crunchyroll Adds 3 Hakuōki Anime to Catalog". Anime News Network. Retrieved March 28, 2024.