Kadokawa announced a collaboration with Elements Garden and the animation studio ENGI to produce the original anime Ghost Concert: Missing Songswhich is scheduled to premiere 2026. The project revealed a visual and a preliminary promotional video, in addition to the cast, production team and main plot.
According to Kadokawa, this production represents a new delivery within the line known as “song battle series“, spiritual successor to the franchise Symphogear. The story is set in the year 2045in a world where songs have been banned. In this context, an application called MiucS replaces humans in music creation and performance. Everything changes when It would be Aibaa high school student who can see and touch spirits, secretly hears someone singing and encounters a “Great Spectrum” that has crossed over from beyond.
voice cast
Minori Fujidera (television debut) as It would be Aiba.
Rina Hidaka (Silica in Sword Art Online, Edge in Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari) as Cleopatra (Egyptian queen and “Great Specter” who possesses Seria).
Production team
The anime is based on an original story by Noriyasu Agematsu and UNISON / Project MiucS. The direction is carried out by Masato Jinbo (Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya 2wei!, Restaurant to Another World) in the studio ENGIwho also supervises the series' script. Masaaki Uikawa (Unnamed Memory) designs the characters, while the members of Elements Garden —Junpei Fujita, Seima Kondo and Daisuke Horikawa— they compose the music under Elements Garden / Heart Company.
Additional staff
Art direction: Tetsuya Kusama, Atsushi Satomi.
Background art: Takeyuki Takahashi.
Color design: Aiko Matsuyama.
Photography direction: Atsushi Sato.
Offline edition: Yūji Kondo.
Sound direction: Masanori Tsuchiya.
Sound effects: Rei Ueno.
Project background
Ghost Concert started in 2017 as a musical project developed by ARIA entertainmentwith song releases, live events and spin-off products. All compositions were made by Elements Garden. The franchise's official website has not been updated since May 2020 until this new announcement.
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