An anime adaptation of Nitroplus and Good Smile Company’s Warau Ars Notoria mobile game, titled Smile of the Arsnotoria the Animation, is set to premiere in Japan on July 6. A teaser trailer and promotional image previewing the main characters have been released.
The staff of Smile of the Arsnotoria the Animation includes Naoyuki Tatsuwa (Gourmet Girl Graffiti, Nisekoi) as director, Midori Gotou (The World Ends with You The Animation) as series composer and scriptwriter, Takahiro Kishida (Kageki Shoujo!!, JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind) as character designer, Tadashi Kudou (Blade of the Immortal) as art director, Aiko Shinohara (Blade of the Immortal) as color designer, Mitsuyoshi Yamamoto (Tokyo Revengers) as photography director, and Ryou Takahashi (Healer Girls) and Ken Itou (I’m Standing on a Million Lives) as music composers. Liden Films is the animation production company.
Meanwhile, the cast includes Misaki Kuno as Ars Notoria, Miharu Hanai as Mel, Miyu Tomita as Petit Albert, Eri Yukimura as Picatrix, and Eriko Matsui as Abramelin.
Aside from the anime, a manga by Hattori Masaki and a light novel spin-off have also been announced. The manga will begin serialization on June 9 with Monthly Dragon Age’s July issue and will offer the opportunity to experience the anime’s story ahead of the show’s premiere, while the Famitsu Bunko-published light novel(s) will center on an anime-original character.
The Warau Ars Notoria iOS and Android RPG launched in Japan in 2021 after being delayed from its 2020 release. The game sees the player as an amnesiac who becomes a teacher at a secret academy, where girls known as Pentagrams are trained to be “true ladies.” However, this paradisal life is only a prelude to a battle with the incoming Knights. The gameplay is split into Adventure, Battle Part, and Training parts and features real-time combat.