12-episode webtoon features multiple artists
French entertainment company Ankama announced on Wednesday that a 12-episode webtoon adaptation of the original television anime Aoki Denshō Welsh & Shedar (The Azure Legend: Welsh & Shedar ) launched on Ankama 's own French comic platform Allskreen and the Ankama Launcher portal app on the same day. The project brings together multiple artists for each episode. New episodes debut each week.
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Ankama assistant screenwriter Lily Roux is the writer, Krosmoz artist Mig is the artist and Sébastien Lamirand is the colorist for the first episode. Other artists will also contribute to the project inclduding Faorynn, Cha, Boky, Nasak_art, GoMar, and Quentiron.
The anime's story centers on a country boy named Welsh, and a prince destined to become a king named Shedar. The two boys are from different stations in life, but their destinies intertwine when they try to end a tyrant's plot to conquer the world.
The anime premiered on October 2 on Tokyo MX at 9:25 p.m. JST (8:25 a.m. EDT).
Ankama is an independent entertainment and digital creation group most widely known for the DOFUS tactical MMORPG, which launched in 2004. The company also published Atsushi Kaneko 's SOIL manga , and Suguro Chayamachi 's Togainu no Chi manga in French.
Sources: Press release