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Me and the Alien MuMu Anime's New Video Reveals New Opening Song, 2nd Part's July 2 Start
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The official website for Me and the Alien MuMu, the television anime of Hiroki Miyashita's Uchūjin MūMū manga, unveiled on Monday a new key visual, promotional video, and the July 2 premiere of the anime's second cours (quarters of a year). The video also revealed the new opening theme song "MOVE MOVE" by Ako.
The anime stars:
- Momo Harumi as Sakurako Umeyashiki
- Etsuko Kozakura as Mu Mu
- Yasuyuki Kase as Decimaru
- Gakuto Kajiwara as Akihiro Tsurumi
- Yuriko Hibi as Miwa Samezu
- Hidenobu Kiuchi as Wataru Tenkubashi
- Kentarō Kumagai as Tamotsu Rokugo
- Yukiyo Fujii as Sonoko Kagetsu
- Karin Takahashi as Siberia
- Katsuyuki Konishi as Junichirō Anamori
Tomoya Takahashi (Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos the Movie) is directing the anime at OLM. Keiichirō Ōchi (Girlfriend, Girlfriend, Go, Go, Loser Ranger!) is in charge of series scripts, Kenji Ōta (Pon no Michi) is designing the characters, and the Kuricorder Quartet is composing the music.
Additional staff members include:
- Color Key Artists: Maki Yamamoto, Ryōta Katsuta
- Art Director: Scott MacDonald
- Compositing Director of Photography: Tatsumi Yukiwaki
- Editing: Yumi Jinguji
- Sound Director: Hozumi Gōda
The band Sabasister perform the first part's opening theme song "Fushigi na Kimi" (Mysterious You). The two main cast members Momo Harumi and Etsuko Kozakura perform the show's ending theme song "Sayonara Jinrui" (Farewell Humanity).
Pony Canyon describes the story:
A cat-like alien from a distant galaxy, Mu Mu, arrives on Earth. His goal is to learn about home appliance technology on Earth to recover the technology his species has lost. The protagonist, Sakurako, has a typical university life, but everything changes with Mu Mu's arrival! What begins as an unexpected cohabitation quickly turns into a whirlwind of chaotic events. The chemistry between Sakurako and Mu Mu leads to a super-spectacular, appliance-filled, and cat comedy adventure.
Miyashita began the manga as one-shot story in Shonengahosha's Young King Ours magazine in April 2019, before launching its serialization two months later. Shonengahosha published the manga's eighth compiled book volume on April 30.
The manga and alien character's name is an apparent homage to Mū, the unorthodox magazine on paranormal matters that the Weathering With You film, the Occultic;Nine series, and other anime, manga, and games have referenced.
Miyashita and writer Takeshi Natsuhara launched the Yakuza Reincarnation (Ninkyō Tensei: Isekai no Yakuza Hime) manga in Shogakukan's Sunday GX magazine in July 2019. Shogakukan published the manga's 17th volume on April 17. Seven Seas Entertainment is releasing the manga in English, and will release the 13th volume on July 1.
