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Sega Reveals Phantasy Star Online 2: Episode Oracle TV Anime for This Year
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
Sega Games announced at the "Phantasy Star Kanshasai 2019" event in Chiba on Sunday that its Phantasy Star Online 2 game is inspiring a new television anime titled Phantasy Star Online 2: Episode Oracle. The anime will recompile the story of "Episodes 1-3" of the original game, and will also include an original story. The anime will premiere this year.
The game previously inspired a television anime titled Phantasy Star Online 2: The Animation. The anime features a completely original story. The 12-episode series premiered in January 2016, and Sentai Filmworks and Crunchyroll streamed the series as it aired in Japan. Sentai Filmworks released the series on Blu-ray Disc and DVD in March 2017.
More recently, the game's official Puso Ni Comi: Phantasy Star Online 2 Comic web manga inspired a series of web anime shorts that began streaming weekly on the Phantasy Star channels on YouTube and Niconico on January 8.
Sega released the free-to-play Phantasy Star Online 2 role-playing game for Windows PC in Japan in 2012, followed by a PlayStation Vita release in 2013, and an Android and iOS release in April and May 2014, respectively. The game debuted on PlayStation 4 in April 2016. The most recent episode in the game, "Episode 5," launched in July 2017.
A cloud version of the game for Nintendo Switch titled Phantasy Star Online 2 Cloud launched in April 2018, and then launched for PC on December 19.
Update: Sega announced at the same event that the game's "Episode 6" update will launch on April 24. Source: 4Gamer
Source: 4Gamer
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