Princess Principal Crown Handler: Chapter 1

Princess Principal Crown Handler: Chapter 1 (2021)

プリンセス・プリンシパル Crown Handler 第1章

The story is set in London at the end of the 19th century. A new task has been assigned to Team White Pigeon, a group of spies from the Commonwealth. It is a delivery of a used bookstore owner to the Commonwealth. Ange, Dorothy and Chise successfully recapture the owner, who had been held in a detention center by the Kingdom. Meanwhile, the "spy hunt" became more intense in the Kingdom following an assassination attempt on the queen, and tension is strained at Control in the Commonwealth. Control speculates that the spy who has dispatched to the royal family might be a "double agent." To find out the truth, they order Team White Pigeon to contact with the spy, whose codename is "Bishop." How their new mission will be accomplished? And who is "Bishop"?

Date of release
2021-02-11
TMDB
6.1 / 10 (47)
Runtime
54m
Genres
Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Director
Masaki Tachibana
Collection
Princess Principal Crown Handler Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Box office: ¥100M

Princess Principal: Crown Handler is a six-part Japanese animated spy action film series and a sequel to the 2017 anime television series Princess Principal. Produced by Actas and distributed by Showgate, the film series is directed by Masaki Tachibana from a script written by Noboru Kimura and stars Aoi Koga, Akira Sekine, Yō Taichi, Akari Kageyama, and Nozomi Furuki.

Production

A sequel to the 2017 anime television series Princess Principal was announced in April 2018, which would comprise six films. Masaki Tachibana, who directed the series, and chief producer Atsushi Yukawa agreed on the sequel being in film format because doing it as another television series would be "physically demanding". Ayaka Imamura, who voiced Ange in the series, announced her retirement in June 2018 due to declining health.

The staff for the first film in the series, Princess Principal: Crown Handler – Chapter 1, were revealed in September 2019. Tachibana would be directing the film, and Noboru Kimura was revealed to be supervising and writing the script instead of Ichirō Ōkouchi who have worked on the series. Actas would solely animate the film; the studio previously collaborated with Studio 3Hz in the series.

The returning staff and cast for the second film in the series, Princess Principal: Crown Handler – Chapter 2, were revealed in July 2021. Additionally, new characters were introduced, namely Edward, Mary, and Richard, the members of Albion royal family who are all in line of succession. Maruyama announced that the film was completed in August 2021.

The production on the third film in the series, Princess Principal: Crown Handler – Chapter 3, were announced in September 2021. That month, Teruyuki Tanzawa, Rina Endō, and Kazuyuki Okitsu were revealed to be voicing Edward, Mary, and Richard, respectively. The returning staff and cast were announced in November 2022. Tachibana stated the film would help the viewers to "finally begin to understand the meaning of the title Crown Handler".

The returning staff and cast for the fourth film in the series, Princess Principal: Crown Handler – Chapter 4, were confirmed in February 2025. That month, Isao Sasaki joined the cast as Turner.

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