The official website for the 9-nine- Ruler’s Crown TV anime has started streaming the second promotional video and confirmed that the anime will premiere its first two episodes as a one-hour special on July 5th, 2025. The anime will debut first on the Tokyo MX channel on July 5th, at 22:00 and then on the BS NTV channel at midnight. The anime will also be streamed on various streaming platforms in Japan from July 5th onwards.
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Ouhata Kouichi (Bakuretsu Tenshi, Ikki Tousen: Dragon Destiny) is directing the anime at PRA studios.
The anime is based on Palette’s 9-nine-game, which consists of four episodes/parts. Publisher and developer Palette initially released all four episodes separately for PC between 2017 and 2020. Then, in April 2021, the company released all episodes as a bundle for PC. Palette also released the game for Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 in June 2022.
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All of the game’s episodes share the same setting, but each focuses on a different heroine. Publisher Sekai Project released the games in English for PC via Steam, and it describes the games below:
“9-nine- is a tale of the town of Shiromitsugawa, host to mysterious Artefacts and the superpowers they bestow on their Users. A tale of growing trust and budding romance between the protagonist and the heroine, and also a murder mystery where they hunt down the culprit behind a series of supernatural murders.”
It’s been announced that a new 9-nine spin-off game will be released for PC in the Winter of 2025.
