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My Home Hero Anime’s 2nd Promo Video Reveals April 2 Debut
The official Twitter account for the television anime of Naoki Yamakawa and Masashi Asaki‘s My Home Hero manga began streaming on Friday the second promotional video, and it reveals that the anime will debut on April 2. The trailer also previews the anime’s opening theme song “Ai no Uta” (Song of Love) by Chiai Fujikawa.
The anime will debut on Tokyo MX and BS TV on April 2 at 11:30 p.m. JST. Crunchyroll will stream the anime as it airs.
The previously announced cast includes:
- Junichi Suwabe as Tetsuo Tosu, a 47-year-old toy maker
- Sayaka Ohara as Kasen Tosu, Tetsuo’s 41-year-old wife and steadfast confidante
- Chihiro Shirata as Reika Tosu, the Tosu household’s only daughter, and a first-year college student
- Kent Itō as Kyōichi Majima, a 20-year-old member of an organized crime group
- Shinichiro Miki as Yoshitatsu Matori, Nobuto’s father
- Keita Tada as Nobuto Matori, Reika’s boyfriend
- Rumi Okubo as Hibiki, a hostess who became Nobuto’s lover after they met a year ago
- Akio Ohtsuka as Kubo, a leader figure in an organized crime group
- Kōichi Yamadera as Shino
- Katsuhiro Tokuishi as Takeda
- Mitsuhiro Sakamaki as Tabata
Takashi Kamei (Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy – Earthrise chief director) is directing the anime at Tezuka Productions. Kohei Kiyasu (Run with the Wind) is writing and supervising the series’ scripts. Masatsune Noguchi (Hakushon Daimaō 2020) is designing the characters. Yukio Abe is the art designer. Kenji Kawai (Patlabor, Gundam 00, Ghost in the Shell) is composing the music, while Takumi Itō is the sound director. Kiyotaka Kawada is credited for sound effects.
Dizzy Sunfist performs the ending theme song “Decided.”
Yamakawa and Asaki launched the manga in Weekly Young Magazine in May 2017. The manga’s 19th volume shipped on January 6. The manga resumed with its third and final part in the 29th issue of Weekly Young Magazine in June 2022. The final arc picks the story back up seven years after the second part. The manga entered a hiatus after it ended its second part in October 2021.
The manga centers on a salaryman who has a reliable wife and a daughter in university who can sometimes act a bit rebellious, but has a happy life in his own way. Until one day he finds out his daughter has been beaten, and thus begins his journey into a dangerous world to protect his family.
Yamakawa and Akinari Nao‘s I’m Standing on a Million Lives manga inspired a television anime adaptation that premiered in October 2020. The anime’s second season premiered in July 2021. Kodansha Comics is publishing the manga in English.
Asaki drew the art for Yuma Ando‘s Psychometrer and Psychometrer Eiji manga, and also drew the IWGP: Denshi no Hoshi manga for the Ikebukuro West Gate Park franchise.
Source: My Home Hero anime’s Twitter account
Entertainment news magazine Variety reported on Sunday that Drops of God, the new internationally co-produced, multilingual live-action television series of Tadashi Agi and Shū Okimoto‘s The Drops of God (Kami no Shizuku) manga, will premiere on April 21.
Apple TV+ has acquired the eight-part series and will broadcast and stream it worldwide simultaneously in 2023.
The official title in Japan is Kami no Shizuku/Drops of God. (Similar to the title in Japan for the second Fullmetal Alchemist television series, the live-action series’ title includes both the Japanese and English titles of the manga.)
Legendary Television is handling worldwide distribution outside of France and Japan. Hulu Japan will exclusively stream the series inside Japan alongside its world premiere. The series filmed over 10 months in France, Italy, and Japan.
The series is a collaboration between U.S., French, and Japanese companies. Legendary Television, Dynamic Television, France Televisions, and Hulu Japan are backing the project, and are producing the project with Adline Entertainment. Oded Ruskin (Absentia, No Man’s Land) is directing the series, and Quoc Dang Tran (Marianne, Parallel) wrote the scripts. Dynamic’s Klaus Zimmermann (Borgia, Trapped) is producing the series.
As previously announced, Tomohisa Yamashita (pictured left) and French actress Fleur Geffrier (Elle) star in the series. The announcement noted that Geffrier’s character is named Shizuku Kanzaki, the protagonist of the manga. A previous announcement noted that rival character Issei Tōmine would be the show’s protagonist, but an earlier report in 2021 from entertainment news service Variety described the series as having a female protagonist, with Geffrier playing the role.
Variety describes the story of the TV series:
The story involves a woman who discovers that her estranged father has left her the world’s greatest wine collection in his will. But, to claim her inheritance she must compete against a Japanese man who her father regarded as a son and may have been more.
Siblings Shin and Yuko Kibayashi — under the pen name Tadashi Agi — launched The Drops of God manga with artist Okimoto in Kodansha‘s Morning magazine 2004. A live-action series based on the manga aired in Japan in 2009. The manga ended in June 2014, and the 44th and final compiled book volume shipped in July 2014. The manga’s final arc, titled Marriage ~Kami no Shizuku Saishūshō~ (Marriage ~The Drops of God Final Arc~), launched in May 2015, and it ended in October 2020.
Comixology and Kodansha USA Publishing have released the manga in English digitally.
Throughout its serialization, the manga had famously boosted the sales of wines profiled in the story. The French wine magazine La Revue du vin de France has recognized the manga, giving it the magazine’s top award in 2010. The New York Times also profiled the manga in its Dining and Wine section in 2008.
Source: Variety (Marta Balaga)
New visual also revealed
The official website for Tōsōchū: The Great Mission, an anime inspired by the Fuji TV game show run for money Tōsōchū (known as Run for the Money in English), revealed the show’s promotional video on Monday. The video previews fhána‘s opening theme song “Runaway World.”
The website also revealed a new visual from original character designer Takeshi Okano.
The series will premiere on April 2.
The previously revealed cast includes: (Note: English name romanizations not confirmed)
Yukio Kaizawa (Digimon Tamers) and Kōhei Kureta (One Piece, Kirakira Precure a la Mode) are directing the anime at Toei Animation. Yōichi Ōnishi is designing the characters based on original art by Takeshi Okano (Jigoku Sensei Nube). Kotaro Nakagawa (Code Geass) is composing the music. Ayaka Kami and Kentaro Akiyama (Revue Starlight) are the art directors. Kenji Fukuda is handling the art setting. Shōhei Tamura is in charge of 3D stage design.
Boys group AB6IX is performing the ending theme song “Fly Away.”
The anime is set in the future when humanity has migrated to the Moon due to Earth’s climate change. The anime incorporates its own elements such as the human drama of survival on a diverse field that blurs countries and eras such as Shibuya, Edo-period Japan, and London.
The game show has been airing irregularly on Fuji TV since 2004. The “runaway” contestants try to survive in theme parks, shopping centers, and other venues to earn cash as “hunters” pursue them. The show has already inspired stage productions, publications, and a Netflix release.
Sources: Tōsōchū: The Great Mission anime’s website (link 2), Comic Natalie
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