Pony Canyon announced on Saturday that Mirage Queen vacances élégantes, a new anime based on Kaoru Hayamine's Mirage Queen (Kaitō Queen) novel series, will be the film premiering in Japan next spring. Pony Canyon also introduced a “super teaser image” early. The image features main characters Mirage Queen (disguised as Countess Angelique von Périgord) and Joker with their airship Troubadour in the background.
© Kaoru Hayamine, K2 Shoukai, KODANSHA/Mirage QUEEN Production Committee
The story in the original novel revolves around a ghostly thief queen who can steal anything they want. Their gender, age and nationality are unknown. Together with their partners Joker and RD, they fly around the world in their airship.
Hayamine and Kadokawa published the first Kaitō Queen short story in 2000. The first full-length novel Mirage Queen Prefers Circus (Kaitō Queen wa Circus ga Osuki) was released under Kadokawa's Aoitori Bunko children's book label in March 2002 with illustrations by K2 Shōkai. The latest novel was published in July 2021. (Kaitō Queen no Yūga na Kyūka is the name of the second longest novel.)
© はかおる・k2 >The novel series received its first screen adaptation, the original video anime Mirage Queen Prefers Circus (Kaitō Queen wa Circus ga Osuki), last June. Yūga Yamato (Tuxedo Mask in the Sailor Moon play) plays the Queen. Saori Den (Pokémon episode director) directed the project at East Fish Studio, and Mariko Kunisawa (Ascendance of a Bookworm, Orient) wrote the script. Kumiko Kawashima (Fantasista Stella) designed the characters. Moe Hyūga (Steins;Gate 0, If My Favorite Pop Idol Made it to the Budokan, I Will Die) composed the music.
HIDIVE licensed Mirage Queen Prefers Circus for streaming, and Japan Anime Movie (JAM) Thailand released the anime in theaters in Thailand on February 3, 2023.
Source: Press release
