Gacha Girls Corps TV Anime Adaptation Set for January 2027
The January 2027 premiere date gives the adaptation a concrete timeline after the initial announcement in May 2025, and the joint production by Zero-G and Saber Works marks a notable collaboration between the two studios.
Reporting from 2 sources: Anime News Network, The Fandom Post.
A television anime adaptation of the Gacha Girls Corps light novel series will premiere in January 2027, as announced via a newly opened website on Thursday. The series, written by Chinkururi and illustrated by Yasutaka Isegawa, began as a web novel on Shōsetsuka ni Narō in 2016 and has nine published volumes. Micro Magazine first announced an anime project in May 2025. The adaptation is co-produced by studios Zero-G and Saber Works, with Masahiro Takada serving as chief director and Takashi Asami as director. Deko Akao handles series composition, and Miori Suzuki is character designer and chief animation director. The cast includes Daisuke Sakaguchi as protagonist Heihachi Okura, Miyu Tomita as Norl Fanya, and Iori Noguchi as Estel. A manga adaptation by Syū Haruno launched in 2018 and is ongoing, with the 14th volume shipping on June 29. Kaiten Books licenses the manga in English, and Omoi releases it digitally.
The Gacha Girls Corps light novel series follows Heihachi Okura, a mobile game addict who pulls a gacha item that transports him to another world, where his summoned units materialize as real girls. The story, which began on the Shōsetsuka ni Narō website in 2016, has nine volumes published by Micro Magazine. Sources differ on whether the series is ongoing or completed: Anime News Network describes it as ongoing, while The Fandom Post states it was completed with nine volumes. The manga adaptation by Syū Haruno, serialized on Comic Ride since 2018, has multiple volumes and is released in English by Kaiten Books. The anime staff includes several notable names: music is composed by Hiroaki Tsutsumi and George King, sound direction is by Nobuyuki Abe, and the executive producer is Kōichirō Natsume. The cast features Daisuke Sakaguchi, known for roles in The iDOLM@STER and A Certain Scientific Railgun, as the lead. The production committee is listed as Gacha o Mawashite Nakama o Fuyasu: Saikyō no Bishōjo Gundan o Tsukuriagero Production Committee and Starry Cube.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 2 cited sources below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.