It has been officially announced today by Bushiroad and KLab’s Bushimo that the Tantei Opera Milky Holmes franchise will receive a 4th season titled Tantei Kageki Milky Holmes TD. The anime is set to debut in January 2015 next year during the Winter 2015 anime season. Episodes 1 and 2 will be pre-aired on Tokyo MX in the special program titled Oomisoka-dayo! ((It’s New Year’s Eve!) Milky Holmes 2014 on December 31, 2014. Regular broadcasting will begin January 2015.
The opening theme song for the anime will be titled “OverDrive!” and performed by Milky Holmes while the ending theme will be sung by Emi Nitta, who will also voice a new character in the anime called Marine Amagi who will be voiced by Emi Nitta (Honoka Kousaka in Love Live! School Idol Project).
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Tantei Opera Milky Holmes is a media franchise owned by the Japanese trading card game company Bushiroad. The first release was an Internet radio drama, released in December 2009. An anime adaptation by J.C.Staff aired between October and December 2010, with a special episode aired on August 26, 2011. The second anime season aired between January and March 2012 with another special aired on August 25, 2012. A third series, titled Futari wa Milky Holmes, aired between July and September 2013. A fourth series titled Tantei Kageki Milky Holmes TD is scheduled to air from January 2015. Other media includes a manga adaptation serialized in Comp Ace between May 2010 and January 2011; two visual novels, released for the PlayStation Portable in December 2010 and August 2012 respectively; a trading card game tie-in with Bushiroad’s Weiß Schwarz; and a light novel series published by ASCII Media Works under their Dengeki Bunko label.
The series is a homage to the detective fiction genre, with the four female leads named after famous fictional detectives: Sherlock Holmes, Nero Wolfe, Hercule Poirot and Cordelia Gray. Milky Holmes is also the name of a voice acting unit consisting of the series’ four main voice actresses; Suzuko Mimori, Sora Tokui, Mikoi Sasaki and Izumi Kitta.
Tantei Kageki Milky Holmes TD synopsis from Haruhichan:
There have been many cases of stolen songs happening among the idols in Yokohama District recently. Even super idol Marine Amagi’s hit song “Kiseki no Uta” was taken away. At the request of Marine, the Milky Holmes team starts investigating the case.
Source: MAL, Crunchyroll
