Learn more about the world of Deep Insanity in a new trailer for Square Enix's ambitious new multimedia project.
Deep Insanity is the Final Fantasy publisher's attempt to tell one continuous story that begins with a manga, continues into an anime series, and finally finishes with a video game. The anime aspect of the franchise, subtitled The Lost Child, is showcased in the new trailer and is being produced by Silver Link, the animation studio behind My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! X and the upcoming light novel adaptation The World's Finest Assassin Gets Reincarnated in Another World as an Aristocrat. The anime series will be directed by Shin Oonuma, who is known for their previous works on series such as Negima!? and Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya.
Deep Insanity takes place in a future where mankind has discovered a bizarre biome deep beneath the South Pole. A new disease, "Randolph's Syndrome," which plunges its victims into a deep coma, begins to spread outward from this new environment. With millions of people infected, humanity begins to send explorers and scientists into the alien environment to find a cure to the disease.
The beginning of the story is told in the Deep Insanity: Nirvana manga, which began serialization in Square Enix's Shonen Gangan magazine in 2020. The series is written by Norimitsu Kaiho, who previously worked on the Danganronpa and Guilty Gear franchises, and Makoto Fukami, with art by Übel Blatt creator Etorouji Shiono. The anime serves as the middle part of the story, and will bridge the events of the original manga to the final arc of the story, which will be seen in Deep Insanity: Asylum, a game which will be released for Windows PCs, as well as iOS and Android devices, in Japan this September.
Deep Insanity: The Lost Child will debut in Japan this October. As with the manga and the game, an international release outside of Japan has not yet been announced.
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