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Awajima Hyakkei Anime's Teaser Unveils Staff at Madhouse, 2026 TV Debut
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Kadokawa unveiled the teaser visual, main staff, television format, and 2026 premiere for the anime of Takako Shimura's Awajima Hyakkei manga on Tuesday. Kadokawa also started streaming the anime's "ultra teaser" promotional video:
Morio Asaka (Chihayafuru, NANA, Galaxy Angel) is directing the anime at Madhouse. Kunihiko Hamada (Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card, Chihayafuru, NANA) is designing the characters, and Yasuhiro Nakanishi (Chained Soldier, Shy, My Love Story With Yamada-kun at Lv999) is in charge of series scripts. Hideki Nakamura (INU-OH film, Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway film, Inuyashiki Last Hero) is the art director, Junko Sakai (My Love Story With Yamada-kun at Lv999, Your Forma, Bibliophile Princess) is the compositing director of photography, and Takahiro Obata (Cinderella Nine, The Promised Neverland, SHOSHIMIN: How to become Ordinary) is composing the music.
Shimura launched the manga in Ohta Publishing's PocoPoco website in July 2011. The manga moved to Ohta Web Comic in July 2016. The manga went on hiatus in 2019, and resumed after three years, with a monthly serialization in January 2022. The manga again went on hiatus in August 2022, and resumed in November 2023. The manga ended in March 2024.
Ohta Publishing released the manga's fifth and final compiled book volume in May 2024.
Shimura is best known for her Wandering Son and Sweet Blue Flowers manga, both of which have inspired television anime series adaptations in 2011 and 2009 respectively. She also drew the original character designs for the Aldnoah.Zero anime, Battery the Animation, and the Overtake! racing anime. She drew a short-run manga adaptation for the Battery novels. Fantagraphics Books is releasing her Wandering Son manga in North America, and Viz Media is releasing Sweet Blue Flowers. Seven Seas is releasing Shimura's Even Though We're Adults (Otona ni Nattemo) manga digitally and in print.
Shimura's Happy-Go-Lucky Days (Dōnika Naru Hibi) manga inspired an anime film that opened in Japan in October 2020.
Source: Press release
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