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Show By Rock!! TV Anime's Promo, Staff, April Premiere Date Unveiled
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The official website for the
Text: A single girl
Text: Wandered into another world.
Text: Now, fates will collide
The website also updated, and unveiled the full staff list.
Takahiro Ikezoe (Slap Up Party: Arad Senki, Ozma) is directing the project at animation studio BONES (Soul Eater Not!, Fullmetal Alchemist), while Touko Machida is handling series composition. Masaru Oshiro (Ie Naki Ko Remi, Major) is designing the characters, while Ryō Hirata (Appleseed XIII, Chaika the Coffin Princess) will provide supporting character design and prop design. Fumihiro Katagai (Chaika the Coffin Princess, Shangri-La) is credited with concept and mecha design.
The remaining staff is as follows:
- Head animator: Tomokatsu Nagasaku
- Color design: Fusako Nakao
- Art design: Naomi Ogura
- Art director: Hatsumi Kumano
- Director of photography: Tsuyoshi Kanbayashi
- CG design: Studio Goonies
- CG Director: Ryou Sasaki
- Editing: Kumiko Sakamoto
- Sound director: Masafumi Mima
- Sound effects: Shizuo Kurahashi
- Music: Yasuharu Takanashi, Rega Sound
- Music production: Pony Canyon
The anime will premiere on April 5 at 10:00 p.m. on Tokyo MX and will show every Sunday, with a rerun every Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. It will also be shown on the Yomiuri TV and BS11 channels.
Sanrio describes the story of the original game on its website:
Metropolis of music, MIDICITY. A kitty girl wearing gothic lolita clothing named Cyan is scouted by Maple Arisugawa, the president of a music agency. From there, she meets Chuchu (a pun off of the sound that rabbits make) the honor student rabbit girl, a net geek dog girl named Retoree (from "Retriever"), and an alien sheep (?) girl named Moa. Together, they form the band named "Plasmagica," and aim for the top of the world.However, the path there is long and tough, and keeping in high spirits is important. By battling against other strange bands, Plasmagica slowly grows toward a top-grade band. In the end, they'll be a band that becomes the driving force of MIDICITY's music industry... Maybe?
Gonna be a music millionaire!
The previously-announced characters include:
The anime will be Sanrio's very first anime that will air in a late-night timeslot. Plans for a manga series are also underway.