Kaitou Queen wa Circus ga Osuki (“The Phantom Thief Queen Loves the Circus”, also known as Mirage QUEEN aime cirque), a children’s novel series written by Kaoru Hayamine and illustrated by K2 Shoukai about an adventurous phantom thief who travels around the world in an airship, is being adapted into an original animation video for its 20th anniversary.
The latest entry in the series, Kaitou Queen – Purgatorio Ginka to Ushinawareta Shiro (“The Phantom Thief Queen – The Gold Coin of Purgatory and the Lost Castle”) will be published in Japan on July 14, 2021.
The newly announced OAV marks the first time that the Kaitou Queen literary series will be adapted into a different visual medium since its publication began in March of 2002.