The upcoming Agents of the Four Seasons: Dance of Spring TV anime has received a winter visual and a corresponding unveiling video.
Depicted are the Agent of Winter Rosei Kantsubaki and their Guard Itecho Kangetsu.
Agents of the Four Seasons (Shunkashuuto Daikosha) is based on the light novel series written by Violet Evergarden‘s Kana Akatsuki and illustrated by Suoh. The fantasy series’ first, two-parter volume shares the anime’s Dance of Spring subtitle, and Yen Press describes the first entry as such:
Winter was once the only season in the world-but such an existence was too lonely to bear, and so it created Spring to love. Before long, the earth wished for more time to rest in the cycle, and Summer and Autumn were born. The ones who carry the cycle are called the Agents of the Four Seasons. Hinagiku, the Agent of Spring, disappeared from this land ten years ago, taking the season of spring with her. Now, after incredible hardship, she has returned to restore the cycle to its proper state-and, as in the myth passed down since the dawn of time, she sends her love to Winter.
The light novels began in 2021 and are published under KADOKAWA’s Dengeki Bunko label. There are eight volumes in the series (taking into account the individual halves of a two-parters) as of December 2024. There is also a manga by Nappa Komatsuda.
Staff
• Director: Ken Yamamoto (Umamusume: Beginning of a New Era)
• Animation advisor: Kazuhiro Furuhashi (Dororo and Spy x Family Season 1 director, Spy x Family Season 2 co-director)
• Series composer: Ayumu Hisao (I’m in Love with the Villainess)
• Character designer: Namiko Torii (The Girl from the Other Side [2022] co-main animator, “Moonbath” music video character designer)
• Visual developer and image board artist: Maiya Satomi (The Girl from the Other Side [short and film] co-director)
• Visual developer and image board artist: Yutaro Kubo (The Girl from the Other Side [short and film] co-director)
• Background art director: Bamboo’s Yusuke Takeda (Vinland Saga)
• Color designer: WIT STUDIO’s Ayaka Nakamura (Ride Your Wave)
• Compositing director: Graphinica’s Keisuke Nozawa (Vivy -Fluorite Eye’s Song-)
• Animation producer: Jo Otani (Isekai Suicide Squad, Vivy -Fluorite Eye’s Song-)
• Line producer: Keisuke Sato
• Animation production: WIT STUDIO
Source: @4seasons_anime