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Wake Up, Girls! Miyagi Prefecture Promotional Short Streamed
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Avex Pictures began streaming "Wake Up, Girls! no Miyagi PR Yarasete Kudasai!" (Wake Up, Girls! Please Let Us Promote Miyagi!), a new anime short for the Wake Up, Girls! franchise, on Monday. The short is part of a larger "Wake Up, Miyagi! Fure-Ai Project in Taiwan" campaign to promote Miyagi (the anime's home prefecture) as a tourist destination to Taiwanese visitors.
The short highlights some of the famous places, tourist destinations, local cuisine, and culture of Miyagi Prefecture. It also features Minase Mori, the image character (voiced by Airi Eino) of Miyagi's Sendai Airport Transit in the nationwide Tetsudō Musume (Railway Girl) campaign.
The short debuted at the Taipei International Comics & Animation Festival, which ran in early February. The short then played at the "Wake Up, Miyagi! Fure-Ai Project" special mini-live event at Sendai Airport on Sunday.
In the story of the original Wake Up, Girls! anime, Green Leaves Entertainment is a tiny production company on the verge of going out of business in Sendai, the biggest city in Japan's northeastern Tohoku region. The agency once managed the careers of magicians, photo idols, fortune-tellers, and other entertainers, but its last remaining client finally quit. In danger of having zero talent (literally), the president Tange hatches an idea of producing an idol group. On the brash president's orders, the dissatisfied manager Matsuda heads out to scout raw talent. Matsuda makes a fateful encounter with a certain girl…
The television anime premiered in Japan in January 2014 along with a limited theatrical run. Crunchyroll streamed the series outside of Japan alongside the Chinese media services Tudou and Youku. Two sequel films, Wake Up, Girls! Seishun no Kage and Wake Up, Girls! Beyond the Bottom, opened last September and December, respectively. The franchise also includes the original net anime spinoff Wake Up, Girl Zoo!
The Wake Up, Girls! idol project announced a new project with rival group I-1 Club in December.
