Girls' Frontline
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A multimedia franchise set in an alternate-historical Earth where technology discoveries lead to the rapid development of combat-capable androids, and a new World War.


Mainline Games

Girl of the Bakehouse (Game)

Technically MICA's first official game, a "kinetic visual novel" (or a VN without branching paths) sold exclusively at doujin (fan-made) events in 2009. While selling copies of Bakehouse at ComiCup 4 on 28 May 2009, Yuzhong (MICA Team's director) wrote that he chatted with someone at the convention who inspired him to make a strategy game. One year later, Yuzhong wrote that he underestimated the amount of work that would go into making one of those, but continued anyway until he made the following game...

Codename: Bakery Girl

A strategy RPG made by Team MICA in 2013. Originally conceived as a sequel to Girl of the Bakehouse, the game instead changed radically, becoming more of a top-down strategy RPG with multiple endings and playable characters, even though it shares some story structure. Though created three years before Girls' Frontline, the story takes place about 30 years after its events, in the Second Cold War. After the success of Girls' Frontline, a remake of the game is scheduled for worldwide release in 2023, entitled Reverse Collapse: Code Name Bakery. MICA promised the game would have updated graphics and gameplay mechanics, and become more explicitly tied into the larger Girls' Frontline universe.

Girls' Frontline

A tactical RPG with gacha elements where the player is an unseen rookie Commander leading a squad of robotic girls soldiers known as "T-Dolls" to contain an advanced robotic threat rising up in the wake of World War 3. The game was made available in Mainland China on May 20, 2016, in Taiwan and Hong Kong on January 18, 2017, in South Korea on June 30, 2017, in English worldwide on May 8, 2018, and in Japan on July 1st, 2018.

Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium

A sequel to the original Girls Frontline, set about 12 years after the start of that game. The government has disbanded Griffin & Kruyger, fearing the PMC to be too powerful. The Commander now scrapes by doing bounty hunting and deliveries across the war-torn world with a handful of T-Dolls, aboard a giant mobile base called the "Elmo," but their latest job thrusts them into a conspiracy involving relics, centered around a strange girl in a box. The game swaps out 2D "chibi" sprites from the previous game for fully-rendered 3D models, and the gameplay involves commanding a small squad of individual Dolls instead of echelons of dispensable Dolls. The game was released in China on December 2023, with a global version following a year later in December 2024.

Spinoff Games

Project Neural Cloud

A "roguelike" strategy game where the player must lead a special group of Dolls called the "Exiled" through a digital world called Magrasea against the Sanctifiers who seek to cleanse them, and the Entropics who seek to corrupt all data. This game has more 3D character models and more fast-paced action. The game was first released in mainland China on September 23, 2021, and a Global English version followed over a year later in November 21, 2022, with Taiwan and Korea getting their own release two days later on November 23, followed by a Japanese release on the 24th.

Girls' Frontline: Glitch Land

Technically a fan-made game, but officially authorized by MICA. The game appears to be pixel based and stars HK416 as a main character. The main developer of this project left the team in early 2022 and Glitch Land is currently on indefinite hiatus.

Anime

Two series of comedic shorts, 12 episodes each, were released in 2019: Girls' Frontline: Healing Chapter and Girls' Frontline: Madness Chapter. Both were originally dubbed in Mandarin Chinese, with a Japanese dub following later. An official Girls' Frontline anime premiered on January 8, 2022, produced by Warner Bros. Japan and animated by Asahi Production, following the main plot of the game.

Manga

An official manga series following the main plot titled Girls' Frontline: The Song of Dolls, illustrated by Miharu, is published in both Chinese and Japanese. There are also collections of unconnected one-shots set within the Girls' Frontline universe titled 'Dolls Frontline Dengeki Comic Anthology' and Dolls Frontline Comic Anthology.

Franchise details
Name
Girls' Frontline
Features
6 games
First game
Girl of the Bakehouse (Game)
Aliases
Dolls Frontline
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