Dia Horizon
A Square Enix mixed media franchise spanning game, anime, and manga.
Dia Horizon (ディアホライゾン, Dia Horaizon) is a Japanese media franchise from Square Enix. Its main components are a smartphone game released for Android and iOS on August 24, 2017, and a television anime series that ran from October to December 2017. The franchise also includes an ONA series streamed online from August 10 to 21, 2017, a 4-panel manga serialized on the official Dia Horizon website, and another manga series published via Square Enix's Manga Up! digital platform starting August 7, 2017. A novel by Ghost Mikawa, titled *Dia Horizon: Akatsuki no Keiyakusha*, was serialized online through Kadokawa's Kakuyomu website.
The project was announced in July 2017 with a trailer, described as a "mixed media project." The game featured a "Party Annihilation Challenge" with a one-million-yen prize, requiring players to swipe away enemies before being defeated. It was discontinued on May 31, 2018, alongside another Square Enix mobile game, *King's Knight*.
The anime series consisted of five-minute episodes that blended game elements with the life of a modern office worker. In the game, the player leads a party of four adventurers through a dungeon, purchasing characters with different stats and prices. During battles, the player can manually control attacks or let the game handle them automatically.
- field
- Media franchise (video game, anime, manga, novel)
- nationality
- Japanese
- known_for
- Mixed media project by Square Enix
- game_release_date
- August 24, 2017
- anime_air_dates
- October to December 2017
- game_discontinuation_date
- May 31, 2018
Lore & Background
Dia Horizon was announced by Square Enix as a 'mixed media project' with a trailer in July 2017. The smartphone game was released on Android and iOS in Japan on August 24, 2017, and an anime television series aired from October to December 2017. An ONA series was streamed online from August 10 to 21, 2017. The game featured a one million yen prize for surviving the 'Party Annihilation Challenge,' where players must swipe away enemies before being defeated. The game was discontinued on May 31, 2018, along with King's Knight, another Square Enix fantasy mobile game.
Reader's Guide
Dia Horizon represents Square Enix's attempt at a cross-media franchise, combining a smartphone game, anime, ONA, manga, and novel. The game's mechanics involved forming a team of four characters with different stats and prices, and players could manually control attacks or let the game auto-play. The anime series consisted of five-minute episodes blending game elements with a modern office worker's life. Despite the initial promotional push, the game was discontinued less than a year after release, on May 31, 2018. The franchise's significance lies in its short-lived but ambitious integration of multiple media formats, typical of Square Enix's strategy to expand intellectual property across platforms. Its legacy is primarily as a footnote in the company's history of mobile game experiments.
Did You Know?
- The game featured a one million yen prize for surviving the 'Party Annihilation Challenge.'
- The anime series consisted of five-minute episodes combining game elements with a modern office worker's life.
- The novel, titled Dia Horizon: Akatsuki no Keiyakusha, was written by Ghost Mikawa and serialized via Kadokawa's Kakuyomu website.
- The game was discontinued on May 31, 2018, along with King's Knight, another Square Enix fantasy mobile game.
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