News: Bakumatsu anime and Fushigi Yugi stageplay

Otome game, Bakumatsu, gets a sci-fi action-adventure adaptation. In the app, a woman from modern day Japan slips back to Edo and meets 12 rivals samurai. The anime adaptation will have an original story: 

"The reigning shogun is said to possess a legendary treasure known as the "Jishingi" that gives him the ability to manipulate the flow of time. Samurai warrior Takasugi Shinsaku and his allies lead a coup to capture this treasure, but their efforts are thwarted, and they find themselves transported to an alternate time-line where the country is ruled by a sinister, masked shogun known as Mugensai."

It will air on October 4. More information on CR and ANN. This is an unconfirmed reverse harem.

Here is the cast of "Fushigi Yugi ~Ao no Sho~" (Fushigi Yugi ~ Blue Chapter) which will run from October 13-21. This is the sequel to the 2016 stageplay, "Fushigi Yugi ~ Ake no Sho~" (Fushigi Yugi Vermillion Chapter). More information on ANN.