Fans of the hugely popular anime series Violet Evergarden will be thrilled to hear the latest news from animation company Wit Studio that Agents of the Four Seasons: Dance of Spring light novel series is getting an anime adaptation.
That light novel series is written by Kana Akatsuki, the same author who wrote the Violet Evergarden novels, and is an IP that has a similar sentiment to the massively popular books.
Along with the anime announcement, a new website and X account were launched, as well as a pretty visual and a trailer.(see/watch below).
The visual was named as being a “spring visual” that features protagonist Hanaba Hinagiku, the Agent of Spring, and her bodyguard, Himetaka Sakura, as they begin to awaken the first signs of Spring in a landscape still covered in snow.
Of course, as you might expect being just an initial announcement, the trailer doesn’t reveal much about the upcoming anime series, although it does give a hint at the coming art style.
Staff working on Agents of the Four Seasons
The Agents of the Four Seasons: Dance of Spring website, however, reveals quite a bit more.
Including that Ken Yamamoto (Uma Musume: Pretty Derby – Beginning of a New Era) is directing, that series composition is being carried out by Ayumu Hisao (Love of Kill) and that Namiko Torii (key animation for Fate/strange Fake: Whispers of Dawn) is designing the characters.
The aforementioned Wit Studio (Spy x Family), of course, is animating the series.
As for the plot of Agents of the Four Seasons: Dance of Spring, which is the title of the first two books in the light novel series, its first volume describes it like this:
Spring is here, safe and sound.
At one time, Winter was the only season in the world, but Winter, unable to bear its own loneliness, created Spring by cutting down its own life.
Eventually, the earth’s wish also brought Summer and Autumn into being. Thus, completing the four seasons.
These seasons were to be rotated by the sons of men, and those who fulfilled this role were called “Agents of the Four Seasons”.
Now a young goddess, with a sense of mission in her heart, is about to rise to the occasion. The season given to her by the god of the four seasons is “Spring”, just as the name “Hinagiku” was given to her by her mother.
She is the Spring of this country that disappeared ten years ago.
And now Hinagiku has returned as a living goddess, and walks with her bodyguard to fight those who kidnapped and humiliated her for more than a decade.
But, deep in her heart, as in the myths, there is also a longing for Winter.
Yen Press publishes the light novel series in English, with four volumes currently out (Spring and Summer), and with the fifth volume (the Archer of Dawn) due out in August.