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Main staff also revealed
Frontier Works announced on Friday that the television anime based on Atamoto‘s Tanuki to Kitsune (Raccoon Dog and Fox) manga will debut on October 4. The anime will air within the “Animori” program that airs on TV Tokyo and its affiliates on Sundays at 7:00 a.m. Frontier Works also revealed a key visual and the show’s main staff.
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Tommy Hino (Kumarba (TV 3), Crane Game Girls) is directing the anime at Akatsuki Media Studio, and Rika Kihara (Sylvanian Families Freya no Piece of Secret) is writing the scripts.
The anime celebrates the franchise’s 10th anniversary.
The manga’s story centers on the daily lives of a raccoon dog who is not quite with it and a mischievous fox who likes to tease the raccoon dog. The two are close friends who live together on a mountain. Their other friends include a wolf, a bear, a rabbit, and birds.
Atamoto began serializing the manga on X (formerly Twitter), and Frontier Works releases the manga in print. The series has already inspired a wide variety of merchandise, as well as stamps on the LINE messaging and social media app.
The franchise contains manga’s 10 volumes and three picture book volumes. The second volume of a new manga series titled Tanuki to Kitsune Yurutto will ship on October 15. The overall book franchise has 1.35 million copies in circulation.
A previous series of web anime shorts debuted in February 2018.
Sources: Frontier Works‘ website, Comic Natalie
