The official Magic Knight Rayearth series accounts and TMS Entertainment announced on July 1 that a new Magic Knight Rayearth anime project is in production in conjunction with the series’ 30th anniversary. A new trailer and visual announcing the project was also released. Details including release date, staff and cast was not announced at the time of reporting.
New Magic Knight Rayearth anime project trailer
CLAMP released the original Magic Knight Rayearth manga from 1993 to 1995 with Magic Knight Rayearth 2 released from 1995 to 1996 in Kodansha’s Nakayoshi magazine, with a total of six volumes released in Japan. Kodansha USA releases both the first and second English versions of the manga. Toshihiro Hirano directed the anime series at TMS Entertainment from 1994 to 1995 for a total of 49 episodes. The three-part OVA Rayearth was released in 1997, directed at Keitaro Motonaga and Toshiki Hirano also at TMS Entertainment. Crunchyroll currently streams the original Magic Knight Rayearth anime and describes the series:
Hikaru Shidou, Umi Ryuuzaki, and Fuu Hououji aren’t from Cephiro. While on a school field trip to the Tokyo Tower, the three girls’ minds are on anything but different worlds filled with magic and wonder. That is, until Princess Emeraude, the Pillar of Cephiro, cries out for the Magic Knights to save her world–and that just happens to be those three!
Source: Magic Knight Rayearth official X (formerly Twitter)
