Kantai Collection Moe Card Battle Game Gets Anime

Kadokawa Games announced at the "Kadokawa Game Studio Media Briefing 2013 Autumn" on Thursday that an anime adaptation of its Kantai Collection -Kan Colle- (Fleet Collection) moe-character card battle game is in the works. According to the company, it is aiming for broadcast next summer or later with the voice cast from the game.

Kadokawa Games also announced that the second title (after Natural Doctrine) from its newly formed Kadokawa Game Studio is the tentatively titled Kan Colle Kai (Kantai Collection Kai). Like the original Kantai Collection game, the genre of this new PlayStation Vita game is "fleet-raising." It is slated for next year.

Kadokawa Games launched the original free-to-play browser game with the service provider DMM.com this past April. In the game, players compete with cards featuring female moe characters inspired by Japanese World War II warships such as aircraft carriers, battleships, and cruisers. Players build, organize, and repair their anthropomorphized fleet to progress through maps.

[Source: ANN]