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Animax Asia to Air Phantom in the Twilight, Clean Freak! Aoyama kun Anime

Animax Asia began streaming two videos on Monday that reveal that it will air a simulcast of smartphone game company Happy Elements' first original anime Phantom in the Twilight, and will also air the the Clean Freak! Aoyama kun (Keppeki Danshi! Aoyama-kun or Cleanliness Boy! Aoyama-kun) anime.

Animax Asia will premiere Phantom in the Twilight on July 9 at 10:00 p.m. GMT +8, with an encore broadcast on Saturdays at 9:00 p.m.

The show will premiere in Japan on Tokyo MX and BS Fuji on July 9 late at night at 12:30 a.m. (effectively July 10). The series is being developed in Japan and China.

Kunihiro Mori (Mars Daybreak) is directing the anime at LIDEN FILMS. Fumiaki Maruto (How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend, Classroom Crisis) and Shunsaku Yano are handling the series composition. Maruto is also credited with the original story, and Yano is also credited with the world setting. Hidari (Fire Emblem Echoes -Shadows of Valencia-) is designing the characters, and Megumi Yamashita is adapting the designs for animation. Z-Ton (Anti-Magic Academy: The 35th Test Platoon) is handling the creature design.

Taiwanese singer Jiro Wang will perform the anime's opening theme "Flowery song." May'n will perform the show's ending theme song.

The story takes place in London at Café Forbidden, a mysterious café that only opens at night. The protagonist is a girl who is in London to study abroad. She meets the handsome men who work this place where the guardians of the boundary between the human and shadow world gather.

Haruta Mayuzumi launched a manga set before the anime's story on LINE Manga on March 25.

Animax Asia will premiere Clean Freak! Aoyama kun on July 12, and will air two episodes every Wednesday and Thursday at 8:00 p.m. GMT +8, with an encore broadcast on the same days at 11:00 p.m GMT +8.

Taku Sakamoto's original manga centers on a handsome young soccer genius named Aoyama who is on Japan's team for players under 16 years old. His play style is "cleanliness." He doesn't tackle and doesn't head the ball. If he's doing a throw-in, he'll only do it if he's wearing gloves.

Kazuya Ichikawa (Monster Strike the Animation, Tantei Team KZ Jiken Note) directed the anime at Studio Hibari, with scripts supervised and written by Midori Gotou (Hozuki's Coolheadedness, The Empire of Corpses). Arisa Matsuura designed the characters. Pony Canyon was credited for music production, and TMS Entertainment was credited for production. Rock band Bentham performed the opening theme song "White" and the insert song "Boku kara Kimi e" (From Me to You). Ryotaro Okiayu, Tomokazu Seki, Sōichiro Hoshi, Daisuke Sakaguchi, and Hiroyuki Yoshino performed the ending theme song "Taiyō ga Kureta Kisetsu" (The Season the Sun Gave Us) under the group name "Fujimi High School Soccer Team."

Sakamoto published the manga in Shueisha's Miracle Jump magazine in 2014, and then resumed the series in Weekly Young Jump in 2015. Sakamoto ended the manga on January 4. Shueisha published the manga's 13th and final compiled book volume on March 19.

Source: Animax Asia's YouTube channel