The anime will premiere on TV Tokyo on Friday at 25:23 (effectively Saturday at 1:23 a.m.), before debuting later that night on TV Osaka and TV Aichi.
The game inspired a stage play that ran in Tokyo and Kyoto from February to March 2019.
Funimation announced on Tuesday that it will stream Bungo and Alchemist -Gears of Judgement- (Bungō to Alchemist: Shinpan no Haguruma), the television anime of DMM Games’ Bungō to Alchemist game as part of the spring 2020 season in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., and Ireland.
The game’s main cast members are reprising their roles for the anime, led by Junichi Suwabe as real-life novelist Ryūnosuke Akutagawa.