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Rail Wars! TV Anime Gets Video Game by Mages

posted on by Sarah Nelkin
Single-player adventure game inspired by novels & its summer anime adaptation

Game developer 5pb. The title will be a one-player adventure game, but no information as to the system or release date has been announced as of yet.

The "dream railway paradise entertainment" story of Rail Wars! is set in a parallel world where Japan did not privatize its national railways. Naohito Takayama is an ordinary high school boy who dreams of a comfortable future working for the top-rated Japanese National Railways. He is assigned as one of four high school trainees in the Railways Security Force. Also in his group is Aoi Sakurai, a female troublemaker who hates men. On top of his sudden transfer, an extremist group called "RJ" plots to privatize the Japanese National Railways.

The Eccentric Family) composes the music.

The anime will premiere on Japanese television this summer.

Toyoda launched the light novel series with illustrations by Vania 600 in 2012.

Source: 4Gamer via Hachima Kikō


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