Gakken’s children’s book series Sai-Kyo-Oh! Zukan is inspiring a second television anime, Sai-Kyo-Oh! Zukan: The Ultimate Tournament, which will premiere next April on the TV Tokyo channel and its affiliates.
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Sai-Kyo-Oh! Zukan: The Ultimate Battles, the franchise’s first television anime which was based on the Ishu Sai-Kyo-Oh! Zukan book, premiered on January 6 on TV Tokyo within the Iniminimanimo program.
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The original children’s book series has 5.4 million copies in circulation, and it will mark its 10th anniversary next year.
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The setting of the new anime is “Sai-Kyō-Jima” (The Ultimate Island), a mysterious isolated island with countless unexplored battlefields from wildernesses and rocky crags to forests, ice fields, and caverns.