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Ahare! Meisaku-kun Anime Launches Crowdfunding Project for New Season, Meets Goal on Same Day
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The Ahare! Meisaku-kun anime shorts launched a Makuake crowdfunding campaign project for a new season on Friday, and the campaign met its goal on the same day. As of press time, the project has raised 7,561,000 yen (about US$61,000), exceeding its goal of 5 million yen (about US$40,000). The campaign will end on June 20.
The project funds four anime shorts for distribution on YouTube. Stretch goals will include additional episodes, as well as other features like ending theme animation and character songs. The campaign will reveal more information within the next week.
Backer rewards include production report sets, T-shirts, posters autographed voice actors, character puppets, and the opportunity to voice act in the anime.
Taketo Shinkai is returning to direct the anime at Pie in the sky with character design by Jun Oson. The main cast is returning as well.
The anime's sixth season premiered during NHK Educational TV's Beat World variety show in April 2021. Crunchyroll streamed the season as it aired in Japan. The anime's final episode aired on March 25. Kenshō Ono, Takuya Eguchi, Masaki Satō, and comedy duos Nasunakanishi and Ushiro City continued to voice roles in the anime.
AnimeLog (Anilog) began streaming the anime on its global YouTube channel in November 2020.
AnimeLog describes the series:
Once upon a time, there was a prestigious school called "Ryugu Elementary School" that produced many famous characters. One day, an ordinary boy named "Matsuda Meisaku" entered Ryugu Elementary School. Will he be able to graduate from the school as a masterpiece character, surrounded by a lot of strong characters such as 'Sweetie' who is super stupid and high-tension, 'Musubi' who is mad and called 'Onigiri', 'Nokio' who is a narcissist and calls himself a robot, and 'Bolt' who is obviously faster than a rabbit?
The show premiered in April 2016 during Beat World with 39 five-minute episodes.
Sources: Makuake, Comic Natalie, Mainichi Shimbun's Mantan Web
