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Girls' Frontline Anime Airs in India on 'Sony YAY'

'Sony YAY' announced on its Instagram account on Thursday that it is airing the television anime of Sunborn Network's Girls' Frontline smartphone game every day at 10:30 p.m. IST.

The anime premiered on Tokyo MX and ABEMA in January 2022. (The anime was originally scheduled to stream globally in 2021.) Crunchyroll is streaming the anime in India.

The game's story is set in an alternate timeline near-future Earth in the 2060s. The aftermath of a military accident that resulted in widespread disease, as well as the recent conclusion of careless nuclear war, has massively depopulated the planet, rendered much of the surface uninhabitable, and reduced once-great nations to shadows of their former selves. Androids used for labor and combat have become an important facet of life, and easily replicable and disposable androids known as Tactical Dolls (T-Dolls) are used by private military companies in the frontlines of numerous brushfire wars. In the game, the player takes the role of a fresh commander in a PMC, commanding T-Dolls to fight against a new AI threat.

Shigeru Ueda (Gekidol, Peach Boy Riverside) directed the anime. Hideyuki Kurata (Made in Abyss) was in charge of series composition and scripts. Masaki Yamada (Deadman Wonderland, Tiger & Bunny) designed the characters. Takashi Watanabe composed the music. Asahi Productions animated the series, and Warner Bros. Japan produced the project. Sunborn Network Technology and Mica Team are credited with the original story.

Mica Team, a Chinese dōjin game circle, founded Sunborn Network, and launched Girls' Frontline in mainland China in May 2016. An English version launched in May 2018, and a Japanese version launched in August 2018 under the title Dolls' Frontline. Sunborn Network released the Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium sequel in China in December 2023, and in the West and Japan in December 2024. The game launched on Steam in February 2025.

Source: Sony YAY's Instagram account