SINoALICE, Yoko Taro’s Newest Smartphone Game Features Twisted Fairytale Heroines

June 18, 2017 Cristy Cuadra

SINoALICE certainly garnered quite the attention in Japan, with it getting 500,000 pre-registrants and having 248,000 followers on Twitter.

Directed by Yoko Taro of the Drakengard and Nien fame, SINoALICE is a fantasy role-playing game which details the story of a group of fairytale heroines who are imprisoned in a world that is stuck in an endless loop called “The Library.” The girls who are still wandering around only have one wish: to revive the “Author”, who created them.

The game will feature nine playable characters, all of which are based on popular fairy tale heroines. And in true Director Yoko Taro fashion, the characters themselves are quite twisted as well, with most of them being incessant about killing and violence, which, of course, is a huge contrast to their canon counterparts. Yoko Taro, believes that they are all cute and that they’ll sell well because of this.

Here are the main characters with their corresponding character designs:

1.) Akazukin / Little Red Riding Hood (VA: Ayaka Imamura)

“I wonder how I should kill next!”

【CV紹介第3弾・音アリ視聴推奨】
今村彩夏さん演じる赤ずきんのキャラボイスを公開

◆赤ずきん
狼。拷問。その遊びは。暴力。
無邪気で無垢な殺人鬼。
その欲を満たすのは、深紅の汚泥。#シノアリス事前登録受付中https://t.co/Rt3gArqcu7 pic.twitter.com/vum0RPJqzQ
— SINoALICE -シノアリス- (@sinoalice_jp) March 3, 2017

2.) Snow White (VA: Reina Ueda)

“Be proud to die by my hand.”

【CV紹介第2弾・音アリ推奨】
上田麗奈さん演じるスノウホワイトのキャラボイスを公開！

◆スノウホワイト
純白のドレスは忠義の証。
アルジに穢されるその日まで
ただひたすらに守り抜く。#シノアリス事前登録はこちら
⇒https://t.co/ZBnwoQOLNg pic.twitter.com/dUGIAM4gF2
— SINoALICE -シノアリス- (@sinoalice_jp) February 24, 2017

3.) Alice (VA: M.A.O)

“Pray, wish, fight, kill.”

【CV紹介第1弾・音アリ推奨】
M・A・Oさん演じるアリスのキャラボイスを公開！

◆アリス
波濤の如き、文字食む獣。
滅ぼすべき仇。傷つく体。
数多のイノチを捧げ、求めるは作者の救済。#シノアリス事前登録はこちら
⇒https://t.co/io8CgO8DtZ pic.twitter.com/LmMgUYbAM7
— SINoALICE -シノアリス- (@sinoalice_jp) February 24, 2017

4.) Hansel & Gretel (VA: Maaya Uchida)

“How about I shove your head on the stove?”

5.) Cinderella (VA: Eri Kitamura)

“Isn’t it fun to gouge people?”

6.) Sleeping Beauty (VA: Kaede Hondo)

“You don’t have to wake up anymore, okay?”

【CV紹介第3弾・音アリ視聴推奨】
今村彩夏さん演じる赤ずきんのキャラボイスを公開

◆赤ずきん
狼。拷問。その遊びは。暴力。
無邪気で無垢な殺人鬼。
その欲を満たすのは、深紅の汚泥。#シノアリス事前登録受付中https://t.co/Rt3gArqcu7 pic.twitter.com/vum0RPJqzQ
— SINoALICE -シノアリス- (@sinoalice_jp) March 3, 2017

7.) Kaguya-hime (VA: Shizuka Ito)

“The weak have no right to live.”

【CV紹介第6弾・音アリ視聴推奨】
伊藤静さん演じるかぐや姫のキャラボイスを公開

◆かぐや姫
故郷。本性。その嗜好は。被虐。
火照るカラダ。ものうげな瞳。濡れた黒髪。
月の姫が欲するは。マコトの愛か強き者か。

シノアリス公式HPhttps://t.co/T32lyIlMOR pic.twitter.com/jV39BfsaVW
— SINoALICE -シノアリス- (@sinoalice_jp) March 8, 2017

8.) Pinocchio (VA: Yuko Sanpei)

“My staff acted out on its own!”

【CV紹介第5弾・音アリ視聴推奨】
三瓶由布子さん演じるピノキオのキャラボイスを公開

◆ピノキオ
杖。少年。永劫の依存。
対の存在。背反する言動。
どちらが欠けても成り立たない。#シノアリス事前登録はこちら
⇒https://t.co/wD6L5iip5v pic.twitter.com/ZtU34b6wBr
— SINoALICE -シノアリス- (@sinoalice_jp) March 8, 2017