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Otherside Picnic Sci-fi Yuri Anime Reveals 2nd Promo Video
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The official Twitter account for the television anime adaptation of Iori Miyazawa's Otherside Picnic (Urasekai Picnic) science fiction yuri novel series began streaming the show's second promotional video on Saturday.
TVアニメ「裏世界ピクニック」2021年1月放送開始! 公式サイトでは最新カットを使用した第2弾PV公開中! ぜひチェックしてね。 #裏ピク #裏世界ピクニック https://t.co/AuvNX7XoE5 pic.twitter.com/HAVFviXruS
— TVアニメ「裏世界ピクニック」公式 (@OthersidePicnic) September 12, 2020
The anime will premiere in January 2021.
Takuya Satō (Kase-san and Morning Glories, Steins;Gate, Fragtime) is directing the anime at LIDEN FILMS and Felix Film, and he is also in charge of the series scripts. Ayumi Nishibata (Kuromukuro animation director) is the character designer and chief animation director. Kazutaka Ema is the creature designer. Hiroki Matsumoto is the art director, and You Iwaida is the color designer. Takeshi Kuchiba is the director of photography. Yūya Shiraishi is the 3D director. Masahiro Gotō is the editor. Takeshi Watanabe (To Love-Ru, Saki ,Ro-Kyu-Bu!) is composing the music.
Yumiri Hanamori will voice Sorao Kamikoshi (left in visual right), and Ai Kayano will voice Toriko Nishina (right).
J-Novel Club is publishing the novel series digitally in English, and it describes the first volume.
Her first encounter with Toriko Nishina was on the Otherside after seeing "that thing" and nearly dying.Ever since that day, exhausted university student Sorawo Kamikoshi's life changed. In this Otherworld, full of mystery, which exists alongside our own, dangerous beings like the Kunekune and Hasshaku-sama that are spoken of in real ghost stories appear. For research, for profit, and to find an important person, Toriko and Sorawo set foot into the abnormal.
A tale of two girls' bizarre exploration and survival, brought to you by an up-and-coming Sci-fi author!
Hayakawa Publishing published the first book in the series in February 2017 with illustrations by shirakaba. The fourth novel shipped last December.
Eita Mizuno's manga adaptation of the novel series launched in February 2018 in Square Enix's Shonen Gangan magazine. Square Enix published the manga's fourth compiled book volume on March 12. Square Enix Manga & Books licensed the manga, and will release the first volume in English on May 25, 2021.
Source: Otherside Picnic anime's Twitter account
