The staff for the television anime of Kimama Aoboshi‘s Kinokoinu – Mushroom Pup manga revealed on Thursday that Wataru Hatano will play Ayumi Amano, Komako’s younger brother who draws a manga about “Katatsunari-senpai” (Snail-senpai) online. The character appears in the ninth episode on Thursday.
© 蒼星きまま・徳間書店/星鳩町きのこ研究所
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The series debuted on AT-X on October 3. The series is streaming on Amazon Prime Video in Japan. Crunchyroll is streaming the anime as it airs.
The anime stars:
- Daiki Kobayashi as Kinokoinu
- Yūto Uemura as Hotaru Yūyami
- Anna Nagase as Komako Amano
- Takuma Terashima as Yara
- Misaki Kuno as Plum
- Hinano as Anzu
- Sayaka Senbongi as Tsubaki
Kagetoshi Asano (storyboard and unit director for Laid-Back Camp series and movie) is directing the anime at C-Station. Jin Tanaka (Go! Princess Precure, Laid-Back Camp, Oshi no Ko) is in charge of series scripts, Daisuke Endō (key animation for Ange Vierge, Brothers Conflict, The Great Jahy Will Not Be Defeated!) is designing the characters, and Akiyuki Tateyama (The Elusive Samurai, Laid-Back Camp) is composing the music.
The additional staff includes:
- Color Design: Takeo Mizuno
- Art Director: Yoshimi Umino
- Director of Photography: Misaki Horiuchi
- Sound Director: Kōhei Yoshida
Rock band HY‘s perform the opening theme song “Kinokoinu.” The eight-member girls unit IBERIs& perform the ending theme song “Heart b-b-beat!!”
Aoboshi launched the manga in Tokuma Shoten‘s Monthly Comic Ryū magazine in 2010 after first publishing the manga as a one-shot, and the manga moved online when the magazine ended print publication in June 2018. The manga ended serialization in February 2022. Tokuma Shoten released the manga’s 15th and final compiled volume in May 2022. The manga has more than 1.7 million copies in circulation.
Digital Manga Publishing‘s Juné imprint had licensed the manga in 2012 and released two volumes.
Source: Press release
