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Fermat no Ryōri Anime Reveals Opening Theme Artist, July 5 TV Debut

The staff for the television anime of Yūgo Kobayashi's Fermat no Ryōri (Cuisson dans le Fermat or Fermat's Cuisine) manga revealed on Friday that the anime will debut on television on July 5 on TV Asahi and its affiliates. The anime will air on Saturdays at 11:30 p.m. in the "IMAnimation" programming block.

Solo artist OSHIKIKEIGO will perform the opening theme song "Maillard." The six-member boy band DXTEEN will perform the anime's ending theme song "Change Over."

The anime's cast members include:

• Ryōsuke Shirakawa as Gaku Kitada
• Taito Ban as Kai Asakura
• Daichi Endō as Hotei Katsuya
• Takuma Nagatsuka as Milo Vivia
• Natsu Yorita as Ranna Akamatsu
• Tatsumaru Tachibana as Magoroku Inui
• Haruna Ikezawa as Nene Fukuda
• Anna Nagase as Ayu Uomi
• Shion Wakayama as Kagura Musashi
• Makoto Furukawa as Ichitarō Hirose

Takeshi Okamoto and Satsuki Kashiwagi are the chief directors for the anime. Miyuki Kaieda is the assistant director. The Domerica studio is producing the anime, and is also credited for series composition and scriptwriting. Takeshi Okamoto and Satsuki Kashiwagi are designing the characters. Satoshi Igarashi is composing the music. Mari Takada is the art director, while Kumi Satō is credited for art setting. Ami Watanabe is the color key artist. Koji Yamakoshi and Mayumi Kamada are the compositing directors. Asuka Fukada is the CG director. Satoshi Motoyama is the sound director. The sound studio KANON is credited for sound production.

The manga centers on Gaku Kitada, a talented mathematics scholar, and Kai Asakura, a young but similarly talented chef. After Gaku suffers setbacks on his dream of becoming a mathematician, he meets Kai as he is running his own food business, and joins Kai in an attempt at something new.

Kobayashi launched the manga in Kodansha's Monthly Shonen Magazine in September 2018. Kodansha published the manga's fifth volume on April 30, and the manga has 23 million copies in circulation.

Kobayashi launched the Aoashi manga in Shogakukan's Weekly Big Comic Spirits magazine in January 2015. Naohiko Ueno is credited for research and original story collaboration up to the manga's 17th volume. The manga will end in the 40th volume. The manga won the Best General Manga at the 65th Shogakukan Manga Awards.

The Aoashi manga inspired a television anime that premiered in April 2022. Crunchyroll streamed the anime as it aired. The anime will have a second season that will premiere in 2026.

Source: Press release