PS Vita RPG Game 'Caligula' Gets TV Anime

by tsubasalover
Nov 17, 2017 4:22 AM | 25 Comments

A Nico live program for PS Vita RPG game Caligula held on Friday has announced that the game will get TV anime to broadcast on Spring 2018. The cast members will reprise their roles except for the main character, who will be anime original.

Synopsis
Mobius is a perfect digital world for the imagined benefit of humanity by μ, a virtual idol program that attained sentience and self-awareness. Only humans who are suffering in the real world and strongly relate to μ's songs are lured into Mobius.

Once they enter, people often forget that the real world exists. Regardless of age or gender, they are turned into students and forced to experience school life over and over, which μ considers "the most radiant time in a person's life." (Source: Atlus)

Cast
Ritsu Shikishima: Chiharu Sawashiro (Tsukipro The Animation)
μ: Reina Ueda (Aikatsu Stars!)
Shougo Satake: Shunsuke Takeuchi (Yu☆Gi☆Oh! VRAINS)
Izuru Minezawa: Yuuichirou Umehara (Juuni Taisen)
Kotarou Tomoe: Yoshimasa Hosoya (the Free! series)
Kotono Kashiwaba: Rie Murakawa (Action Heroine Cheer Fruits)
Naruko Morita: Ari Ozawa (Kono Bijutsubu ni wa Mondai ga Aru!)
Mifue Shinohara: Rie Takahashi (Animegataris)
Suzuna Kagura: Minami Tanaka (the Wake Up, Girls! series)
Marie Mizuguchi: Mai Fuchigami (the Girls und Panzer series)
Aria: Asami Shimoda (the Infinite Stratos series)
KagiP: Shouta Aoi (the Uta no☆Prince-sama♪ series)
SweetP: Emi Nitta (the Love Live! School Idol Project series)
Shounen Doll: Yumiri Hanamori (Rolling☆Girls)
Mirei: Eriko Nakamura (The iDOLM@STER series)
IkeP: Soma Saito (Infini-T Force)
Shadou Knife: Yuuma Uchida (The iDOLM@STER SideM)
Thorn: Yuka Ootsubo (Hanayamata)

Caligula is a RPG game that released via PS Vita on June 2016 from Furyu, and was released by Atlus USA under the title The Caligula Effect. A new game for the series, Caligula Overdose has also been announced to release on May 17, 2018.

Official site: http://caligula-anime.com/
Official Twitter: @Caligula_Anime

Source: Moca News

Caligula on MAL

New Anime Spring 2018

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I've been interested in trying the game since the story seemed interesting but I never bought it since I'm not big on Digital-only. Really looking forward to watch this!

The new game is exclusive for PS4 and is not really "new". It's just an upgraded version with some new additions.

Nov 18, 2017 7:54 AM by Shinsuke_Sama

isn't this that awful garbage game that get a complete remake just after 1 year because it's too garbage? well this is just for promotion.

Nov 18, 2017 1:18 AM by GangsterCat

This game seems lit, yo

Nov 18, 2017 12:13 AM by Excela

Based on the reception of the game itself it doesn't seem really nice. Though, if they can do an 18if (where they turned a mediocre game into a good animated series) then that would be pretty neat. Though I know, different directors and such but it would be neat if they can do it the same format or try to fix issues that the respective game already had.

Aside from that, concept is interesting, so I'll see for further news.

Nov 17, 2017 10:17 PM by removed-user

_Ako_ said:

Mobius is a perfect digital world for the imagined benefit of humanity by μ, a virtual idol program that attained sentience and self-awareness. Only humans who are suffering in the real world and strongly relate to μ's songs are lured into Mobius.

I must admit that I love "Korekara no Someday", " Susume Tomorrow", "Snow Halation", "No brand girls", "Wonder zone" and "Bokura no LIVE Kimi to no LIFE"

I'm waiting for the notification given to me for me to live in that world....

I cannot agree more lol, reading the synopsis the first time make me felt like this is a LL spinoff or something. XD Quite a dark and eerie spinoff though, maybe Honoka couldn't rest in peace or something and her soul persisted in this world and transformed into some godly.

Nov 17, 2017 7:29 PM by Lord_Odous

Its a game adaptation.
and from the comments, it seems like its not a really good game..

eh, unless there's a really good staff behind it ill pass.

Nov 17, 2017 6:25 PM by DatRandomDude

Nov 17, 2017 6:19 PM by _Ako_

Cool, I seen gameplay vids of this a while ago. I don't have a vita, so I will probably watch this

Nov 17, 2017 3:07 PM by removed-user

Game adaptation? This is probably gonna be pretty cheap, but I'll wait for the staff till I decide what to do.

Nov 17, 2017 2:52 PM by joe_g7

The game was pretty mediocre but if I don't have to deal with its awful battle system, I might actually be able to enjoy some of it.

Hoppy said:
The game didn't sell well in Japan at all (Exstetra sold way better than this), how is this getting an anime and not Exstetra. The game is also pretty bad as well.

Weird how they decide to make a anime on a game that didn't even sell well. Not like advertising it years after its release is going to help it.

Nov 17, 2017 2:22 PM by Paul

Was hoping it'd be at least vaguely related to the historical Caligula (maybe a show where it's an alternate universe and everyone's a cute girl, some sort of ecchi/comedy/gore) but this premise doesn't sound too bad. It's pretty vague, though, so I guess there's lots of room for it to be terrible and it seems like people didn't like the game...

Nov 17, 2017 2:08 PM by einonymous

Game adaptations will unfortunately never go away it seems :/

Nov 17, 2017 2:01 PM by HaXXspetten

I can smell a trashy adaption of a pretty boring game. [I liked some of the OST though.]

Nov 17, 2017 11:23 AM by cure_potato

tsubasalover said:
Synopsis
Mobius is a perfect digital world for the imagined benefit of humanity by μ, a virtual idol program that attained sentience and self-awareness. Only humans who are suffering in the real world and strongly relate to μ's songs are lured into Mobius.

Seems quite similar to the game series The Evil Within's plot; an organization called Mobius is developing a digital world were people's minds are used as processing units. They are lured into Mobius' world via "religious centers" (recruitment centers) called Mu (pronounced as μ).

Coincidence?

Nov 17, 2017 11:09 AM by BlazePony

I still think pretty game chara designs I hope more male characters by Oguchi.

Nov 17, 2017 10:35 AM by Shadow-Chan

SADGFASJFAJS SAWASHIRO CHIHARU GSDJDSGJKGSK MAIN CHARAC T E R R

i'm happy!

Nov 17, 2017 8:39 AM by Mayuka

Haneken2086 said:

RobertBobert said:

Well, given guro, ecchi, mad protagonist and harem's brother-sister incest, this movie would have many chances in modern anime.

We need this to happen.

Yes, it sounds like a good script for Urobochi. Is that left to add token yuri girls and decadence.

Nov 17, 2017 8:34 AM by RobertBobert

What? Who needs this? This game is garbage. I know, cause I bought it at launch. And for bonus round we're gonna get a cheap and uninspired anime version of a cheap and uninspired game? No!
Oh, wait! There's gonna be a sequel too? Wow. Fuck this.

Nov 17, 2017 8:28 AM by N7n4shi

RobertBobert said:

ItsXolo said:
Was hoping this would be like that 70s porn movie about the Roman Emperor.

Well, given guro, ecchi, mad protagonist and harem's brother-sister incest, this movie would have many chances in modern anime.

We need this to happen.

Nov 17, 2017 8:26 AM by Haneken2086

The game didn't sell well in Japan at all (Exstetra sold way better than this), how is this getting an anime and not Exstetra. The game is also pretty bad as well.

Nov 17, 2017 8:05 AM by Hoppy

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