The “HYPNOSISMIC -Division Rap Battle- in AGF2024” event held in Ikebukuro today revealed that the multimedia franchise has an anime film in production for a planned February 21, 2025 release in Japan. The announcement trailer describes the feature as the country’s first theatrical “interactive movie”, where audience members will decide the outcome of rap battles through a smartphone app in realtime.
HYPNOSISMIC -Division Rap Battle-Anime Film Reveal Trailer
HYPNOSISMIC -Division Rap Battle-Anime Film Poster
Adding to the multimedia franchise developed by King Records and Idea Factory since 2017, Takanori Tsujimoto (Resident Evil: Vendetta) directs the HYPNOSISMIC -Divison Rap Battle- anime film at studio Polygon Pictures (Kaina of the Great Snow Sea), with a script by Yuichiro Momose (The Witch and the Beast) and character designs by Kazui.
The first anime season, which premiered in October 2020 with a simulcast on Funimation, was directed by Katsumi Ono at studio A-1 Pictures. Crunchyroll streams the series and its 2023 sequel, describing the overall story like so:
Legendary rap group The Dirty Dawg could have taken Japan by storm, but then they broke up. Now each member fights in one of the four rival groups. Battles for turf are fought with rap and the Hypnosis Mic, a microphone that can affect the human spirit.
Source: TOHO on YouTube, Comic Natalie
