Los Angeles-based company Azuki revealed a new key visual and trailer for the second part of the Enter the Garden anthology series “Fractured Reflections.” The episode will premiere live sometime in February 2025 on the company’s new platform Anime.com, and will be available on demand on Azuki’s YouTube channel. “Fractured Reflections” follows Enter the Garden’s first episode “The Waiting Man.” The anthology series will have three total episodes.
Yukio Takatsu (storyboard artist and unit director of March Comes in Like A Lion Season 2 Ending 2 and Naruto Shippuden Opening 17) is serving as director for “Fractured Reflections,” with Taku Kishimoto (Haikyu!!) as series screenwriter and Kazuto Nakazawa (Terror in Resonance) as character designer. Goro Taniguchi (Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion) is serving as the creative producer for the series. Meanwhile, the anime’s main voice cast star Mie Sonozaki as Shao and Takako Honda as Raizan.
Azuki describes itself as a “Web3 anime brand that tells stories at the intersection of art, technology and culture.” It was created by Los Angeles-based Chiru Labs. Azuki claims that Enter The Garden offers a “personalized experience” through factors like “licensing community-owned characters” for the anime, product placement of businesses owned by Azuki community members, and “a dynamic feature in one of the scenes in Episode 1, where an Azuki collector can see their own Azuki character on a billboard.”
Synopsis:
Fractured Reflections” tells the story of two sisters, Shao and Raizan, who grow up together in the Alley, relying on each other to survive. But one day, Raizan vanishes. Shao searches for her, but years pass with no success. Then, carrying her sister’s sword, Shao stumbles upon a mysterious torii gate and enters the unknown world of the Garden.
