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Initial release date 14 January 2015 Publisher DMM.com Platform Adobe Flash Player | 6.8/10 MyAnimeList Mode Single-player video game | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Touken ranbu gameplay
Touken Ranbu (刀剣乱舞, Tōken Ranbu, lit. "Wild Dance of Swords") is a free-to-play collectible card browser video game developed by Nitroplus and DMM Games. It is only available in Japan and was released on January 14, 2015. It is being adapted as two anime series.
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Gameplay
Players assume the role of a sage (審神者, saniwa) who travels into the past to defeat evil forces, and has the ability to animate legendary swords, which are depicted as attractive young men. Touken Ranbu is mostly a gender-swapped clone of the game Kantai Collection, also by DMM, which anthropomorphizes historical warships as young girls. Combat is largely automated, with progress mainly dependent on resource management and grinding.
Reception
Touken Ranbu quickly became very popular in Japan, particularly with young women, and had over a million registered players as of June 2015. The game has been credited with accelerating the Japanese cultural trend of "katana women" (カタナ女子, katana joshi) – women who are interested in, and who pose with, historical Japanese swords. That trend had been started a few years previously with the Sengoku Basara video games, which made katana fans a distinct part of the Japanese subculture of female history aficionados (reki-jo). The popularity of Touken Ranbu was such that a Japanese women's interest magazine published an article about exercise routines based on sword fighting techniques from the game, and the 2015 Tokyo Wonder Festival's figure exhibition was reportedly "completely dominated by hot male swordsmen".
Anime
The game is to receive two anime adaptations. The first, Touken Ranbu: Hanamaru (刀剣乱舞-花丸-), is an anime television series produced by Doga Kobo, directed by Takashi Naoya and written by Pierre Sugiura, with character designs by Junichiro Taniguchi and music composed by Kenji Kawai. The first episode debuted on October 3, 2016. Funimation has licensed Hanamaru for an English language release. A sequel was announced at the Hanamaru Biyori! special event in Japan on February 5, 2017. The second season is due to air January 2018.
The second adaptation, titled Katsugeki! Touken Ranbu (活撃 刀剣乱舞), is an anime television series produced by Ufotable and directed by Toshiyuki Shirai, with music composed by Hideyuki Fukasawa. It is scheduled to premiere in July 2017.