Just last month, Arc System Works announced that Guilty Gear Strive would be getting it own anime series. Today at Anime Expo 2024, the company shared their first look at the upcoming show.
Guilty Gear Strive: Dual Rulers now has its first teaser trailer, which provides just under a minute of action from the upcoming series.
Guilty Gear Strive: Dual Rulers takes place in a world where science and technology have lost their prominence and have essentially been replaced by a new energy source: magic. Biological weapons known as Gears are created using magic, and these Gears eventually rise up and rise against humanity in a vicious rebellion.
The story features characters such as Sol Badguy, Sin Kiske, and brand new character Unika, who we see quite a bit in the teaser trailer. It has also been revealed that Guilty Gear series creator Daisuke Ishiwatari is designing original characters specifically for the anime.
Below you can find a brief synopsis of Guilty Gear Strive: Dual Rulers straight from ArcSys. Be sure to watch the trailer as well, which we have also included here.
Synopsis:
After the decline of the once robust fields of science and technology, a new energy source known as magic fuels the modern era. Humanity creates forbidden biological weapons: Gears. Those Gears eventually stand against humanity in a rebellion.
Although they manage to overcome in the struggle for survival known as the Crusades, humanity’s losses are so great that even after several decades pass, their emotional wounds remain unable to fully heal. Sin Kiske, the child of a human and a Gear, heads to his father Ky and mother Dizzy’s wedding ceremony. Their wedding breaks the ultimate taboo: a union between a human and a Gear.
Even with the world at peace, it took many years for such a ceremony to come to fruition. Despite the complex array of emotions surrounding it, the wedding ceremony is met with blessings. When suddenly, a mysterious girl appears… The fated child inheriting Gear blood–and the mysterious girl who despises Gears. Their meeting would shake the world.