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TMS Entertainment is to collaborate with Shin-Ei Animation, JEKI, Sumitomo Corporation, and Asmik Ace for a new TV anime project titled Anime no Me.
Anime no Me is a collaborative project between animation studios TMS, Shin-Ei, Sumitomo, JEKI, and Asmik Ace to create a new anime business model by pooling their resources.
“Me” means “eye” in Japanese and this part of the name is inspired by the idea of the “eye of the storm.” The project hopes to sow the seeds of a new kind of anime, whipping up a whirlwind in the middle of the cruel animation world in which shows are created only to disappear right away like a passing storm.
This new brand of anime known as Anime no Me will begin broadcasting from July 2016 as part of the five company collaborative project. So far the lineup includes Sweetness and Lightening which will be broadcast from July 4, and Trickster which is due to start in October.
Anime no Me Official Site: http://www.animenome.jp
Sweetness and Lightning (12-episode anime)
*Sweetness and Lightning* is the anime adaptation of the popular manga by Gido Amagakure which has been serialised in Good! Afternoon since 2013 and, up to the recently released sixth collected volume, has sold over 1 million copies. It’s a gentle slice of life story themed around cooking and eating with those closest to you.
Anime Official Site: http://www.amaama.jp
Anime Official Twitter: @amaama_anime
Story
A story of fathers, daughters and dinner tables! After his wife dies, single father and high school teacher Inuzuka struggles hard to raise his daughter alone. After a strange coincidence, with the help of his student, Kotori, and his daughter, the three begin to cook and eat together! A deliciously triangular family drama!
Creative Team:
Based on the manga by Gido Amagakure (published in Good! Afternoon)
Director: Tarou Iwasaki ( One Week Friends, Yakushiji Ryoko no Kaiki Jikenbo )
Series Composition: Mitsutaka Hirota ( Bakumatsu Rock, New Prince of Tennis )
Character Design: Hiroki Harada ( The Pilot’s Love Song, Sasami-san@Ganbaranai )
Animation Production: TMS Entertainment
Planning Cooperation: Shin-Ei Animation
Cast:
Kouhei Inuzuka: Yuichi Nakamura
Tsumugi Inuzuka: Rina Endo
Kotori Iida: Saori Hayami
Shinobu Kojika: Haruka Tomatsu
Yusuke Yagi: Tomokazu Seki
Broadcast Schedule:
TOKYO MX - Every Monday at 25:05 from July 4, 2016
Yomiuri Telecasting - Every Monday at 25:59 from July 4, 2016
BS11: Every Tuesday at 25:30 from July 5, 2016
Broadcast times subject to change.
Trickster (24-episode anime)
*Trickster* is an original anime TV series inspired by Edogawa Ranpo’s classic Boy Detectives Club but moves the action into the near future rather than the contemporary setting of the books. The show has a wide range of characters beginning with Kobayashi who has become immortal thanks to a mysterious mist, and his partner, the leader of the Boy Detectives Club, Hanasaki. A manga adaptation and stage show as well as a live action movie are all in the works as part of this wide-ranging project.
Anime Official Site: http://trickster-project.com/anime
Anime Official Twitter: @trickster_anime
Story
He chooses the path of the detective because he wants to die…
It’s the 2030s. The Boy Detectives Club has assembled under the mysterious detective Kogoro Akechi who guides them to the solution of various incidents large and small using their innate capabilities. One fateful day, Kensuke Hanasaki meets the mysterious boy Yoshio Kobayashi. Possessed by an “unknown mist,” Kobayashi has developed an immortal body but longs for nothing other than death and avoids contact with other people. Becoming interested in him, Hanasaki asks Kobayashi to join the detective club. Together their fates will become entwined with the criminal of the century, The Fiend with Twenty Faces, and with that of the mysterious detective Kogoro Akechi himself…
Creative Team:
Director: Masahiro Mukai ( Hyperdimension Neptunia: The Animation )
Script/Series Composition: Erika Yoshida ( Tiger & Bunny, Heroine Shikkaku, Nousaku Sakuretsu Girl )
Character Design: PEACH-PIT ( Rozen Maiden, Shugo Chara! )
Animation Character Design: Shunya Yamada ( Your Lie in April - animation director)
Music: Yuuki Hayashi ( Haikyu!!, My Hero Academia )
Animation Production: TMS Entertainment, Shin-Ei Animation
Cast:
Yoshi Kobayashi: Daiki Yamashita
Kensuke Hanasaki: Ryota Osaka
Broadcast Dates:
From October 2016 on Tokyo MX, Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation, BS11
© Gido Amagakure, Kodansha Ltd. / Sweetness and Lightning Production Committee
© Jordan Morisugi, Trickster Production Committee
Source: @Press
