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Room Mate Anime Series Reveals Visual, Staff, April 12 Premiere
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
The official Twitter account for the Room Mate television anime series revealed the show's first visual, main staff, and April 12 premiere date on Friday.
The series of five-minute shorts will premiere on Tokyo MX on April 12 at 10:40 p.m., and will also air on Sun TV. The show will also stream on Niconico and on AbemaTV.
The anime is the "Side M" version of SMIRAL Animation's OneRoom television anime series, and was announced in November at the same time as OneRoom. OneRoom premiered in Japan on January 11, and has 12 five-minute episodes. The "first-person narrative" series featured three arcs, with each four-episode arc focusing on a different female character.
Room Mate will similarly focus on three male characters. While OneRoom featured original character designs by Kantoku (The "Hentai" Prince and the Stony Cat., Garakowa -Restore the World- original character designer), Room Mate will feature original character designs by Hidari (Sasami-san@Ganbaranai, Fractale, Santa Company).
Masashi Kikuta and Takashi Sakurai are in charge of the original planning for the anime, and Eiji Mano (OneRoom) drafted the original story. Chisato Nakata (clothing design for Wake Up, Girls!) is adapting Hidari's character designs for animation, Aose Shimoi is returning from OneRoom to write the scripts, and Tomohiro Yamada (yamazo) is composing the music at F.M.F. Typhoon Graphics is returning from OneRoom to animate the series.
Crunchyroll streamed the OneRoom anime as it aired. The "first-person narrative" story featured "3 stories that develop in your (one) room."
Source: MoCa News
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