The long slow series of teases and pieces of character artwork that we got throughout 2013 and into the early part of 2014 recently netted us the official title for the K feature with K: Missing Kings. With a planned July 12th, 2014 release in thirty-one theaters in Japan, King Records has now unveiled the first trailer for it that clocks in at ninety seconds and provides an instrumental score to it with lots of great character visuals. The feature, which follows up the fall 2012 anime TV series of the same name. The series was simulcast in the fall of 2012 through VizAnime.com and Viz Media has become the master licensor for the TV show in North America with it being dubbed and readied for a Neon Alley broadcast in the future.
Series Concept: From GoHands, the studio that brought you the cyberpunk anime film series Mardock Scramble, and the enigmatic writers’ collective GoRA Project comes K, the newest original anime series of 2012. Set in a world where history has taken a slightly different course from the one we’re familiar with, K follows the story of a young boy whose life is caught in a psychic war between seven kings. Yashiro Isana, also known as Shiro, is wanted for a crime he has no recollection of committing. He finds himself being hunted by the groups Homura, led by Mikoto Suoh, “The Red King,” and Scepter 4, led by Reisi Munakata, “The Blue King.” While on the run, a young man named Kuroh Yatogami helps him. This fated encounter will change Shiro’s life forever.