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Muse Asia Streams Pui Pui Molcar Driving School Anime on October 8
posted on by Adriana Hazra
Muse Asia announced on Facebook on Sunday that it will begin streaming the new series for Shinei Animation's Pui Pui Molcar stop-motion anime franchise titled Pui Pui Molcar Driving School on October 8. The anime will stream on Saturdays at 4:30 p.m. IST.
Alongside India, Muse Asia will stream the anime in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Pakistan.
The anime will feature four new characters: Peter, Hii, Fū, and Mii.
Hana Ono, a storyboarder from the first anime, will be the anime's new director, while former director Tomoki Misato is supervising the new anime. The animators include Shōta Ogawa, Makoto Takano, Atsuko Miyake, Yukari Kakiuchi, Kazushige Tōma, Yasuko Abe, and Matsurika Konishi. UchuPeople, Atelier KOCKA, Pandagraph, and Studio Bingo are credited for backgrounds. Shōta Kowashi is once again composing the music, while Noriyoshi Ōnuma is the sound director.
The stop-motion series premiered in January 2021 within TV Tokyo's Kinder TV children's variety program. The series centers on guinea pigs who have become cars (the title word "Molcar" combines "car" with "morumotto," the Japanese word for "guinea pig" and a variant of the English word "marmot"). Muse Asia streamed the anime in India in January 2021. It streamed the anime again in July 2021. Tobidase! Narase! Pui Pui Molcar, the series' compilation film, opened in Japan in July 2021.
The series utilizes stop-motion animated puppets made of wool felt.
This series marked Tomoki Misato's directorial debut on an animated television series. Misato also wrote the script, and he worked on the storyboards along with Hana Ono and Kei Sato. The series' animators included Misato, Ikuko Iwatsuki, Kei Sato, and Makoto Takano. The artists included Misato, Ikuko Iwatsuki, Kei Sato, Harune Satō, and Michiko Kaihatsu. Shōta Kowashi composed the music.
The franchise also inspired the Pui Pui Molcar Mogu Mogu Parking smartphone game that launched in July 2021.
Shinei Animation produces Crayon Shin-chan and Doraemon, among other titles. Wit Studio established a stop-motion studio with Misato in December 2020.
Source: Muse Asia's Facebook page
