Princess Principal: Crown Handler

Princess Principal: Crown Handler
Kanjiプリンセス・プリンシパル Crown Handler
Revised HepburnPurinsesu Purinshiparu: Kuraun Handorā
Directed byMasaki Tachibana
Screenplay byNoboru Kimura
Produced by
  • Toshikazu Sugimoto
  • Kazuyoshi Nishikawa
  • Yoshinori Hasegawa
  • Hirotaka Kaneko
  • Yōhei HataC1
  • Yoko BabaC1
  • Kōsuke SatōC2 C3
  • Hirohito SakemiC2 C3
  • Jin TsuchihashiC3
Starring
CinematographyYu Wakabayashi
Edited byGō Sadamatsu
Music byYuki Kajiura
Production
company
Distributed byShowgate
Release dates
  • February 11, 2021 (Chapter 1)
  • September 23, 2021 (Chapter 2)
  • April 7, 2023 (Chapter 3)
Running time
Total (3 films):
169 minutes[1]
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese
Box officeTotal (3 films):
¥280 million

Princess Principal: Crown Handler (Japanese: プリンセス・プリンシパル Crown Handler, Hepburn: Purinsesu Purinshiparu: Kuraun Handorā) is a six-part Japanese animated spy action film series and a sequel to the 2017 anime television series Princess Principal. Produced by Actas and distributed by Showgate, the film series is directed by Masaki Tachibana from a script written by Noboru Kimura and stars Aoi Koga, Akira Sekine, Yō Taichi, Akari Kageyama, and Nozomi Furuki.

The film series follows Ange, Princess Charlotte, Dorothy, Beatrice, and Chise Tōdō, members of Team White Pigeon, as they are assigned to investigate Bishop, the Commonwealth spy within the Kingdom's royal family, for his loyalty. Following his death from an assailant and an assassination attempt on Prince Richard, the team is tasked to find the Cavorite bombs that are stolen from the Commonwealth. After the incident of missing bombs, Prince Richard, the mastermind behind it and the assassination of Prince Edward, invites Charlotte to join him for his plan to reform the Kingdom. The death of Prince Edward, who is first in succeeding the Queen of the Kingdom, has caused a power struggle between Prince Richard and Princess Mary, who is second in the line of succession.

A sequel to the anime series was announced in April 2018. The staff and cast for the first film in the series were revealed in September 2019, with Koga replacing Ayaka Imamura as the voice actress for Ange due to the latter's health condition. That film's production was completed in March 2020. The staff and cast for the second film in the series were revealed in July 2021, while its production was completed in August. The staff and cast for the third film in the series were revealed in November 2022.

Three films in the Princess Principal: Crown Handler series have been released in Japan since 2021: Chapter 1 on February 11, Chapter 2 on September 23, and Chapter 3 on April 7, 2023. The film series has grossed ¥280 million in Japan.

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    • プリンセス・プリンシパル Crown Handler 第1章 [Princess Principal: Crown Handler – Chapter 1]. Eiga.com (in Japanese). Archived from the original on April 7, 2023. Retrieved April 7, 2023.
    • プリンセス・プリンシパル Crown Handler 第2章 [Princess Principal: Crown Handler – Chapter 2]. Eiga.com (in Japanese). Archived from the original on April 4, 2023. Retrieved April 7, 2023.
    • プリンセス・プリンシパル Crown Handler 第3章 [Princess Principal: Crown Handler – Chapter 3]. Eiga.com (in Japanese). Archived from the original on April 7, 2023. Retrieved April 7, 2023.