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Shin-chan Spinoff Anime Nohara Hiroshi Hirumeshi no Ryūgi Reveals Video, Ending Song Artists

The official website for the television anime of Yōichi Tsukahara's Nohara Hiroshi Hirumeshi no Ryūgi (The Style of Hiroshi Nohara's Lunch) spinoff manga of Crayon Shin-chan began streaming a new promotional video for the anime on Wednesday. The video introduces the story's premise in one minute by showing the three ways the titular Hiroshi Nohara chooses lunch: as cheap as possible, as quickly as possible, or as deliciously as possible.

The anime's website also announced that the rock band saba sister will perform the anime's ending theme song "Kyō no Gohan wa Nan Darō na" (I Wonder What Today's Meal Will Be).

The spinoff manga focuses on Hiroshi Nohara, Shin-chan's father and the head of the Nohara family. As a 35-year-old salaryman, he has limited time and money to spend on food, which shapes his choice of lunchtime. Throughout the manga, Hiroshi describes the food, delivers food trivia, and gripes about workplace woes, such as having to treat his seniors to food, sudden workloads shortening his lunch break, and hated bosses.

Toshiyuki Morikawa reprises his role from the Crayon Shin-chan anime as Hiroshi Nohara.

Tsukasa Nishiyama (Mugyutto! Black Clover, mini vanguard Large, The Human Crazy University) is directing the anime at DLE in Flash-style animation, with  Crayon Shin-chan studio's Shin-Ei Animation also credited for production. Hasyashi Mori (Cells at Work! Code Black, Sand Land, Onmyō Kaiten Re:verse) and Moral (Shin-chan, Eiga Crayon Shin-chan: Ora-tachi no Kyōryū Nikki) are penning the scripts. Koutarou Yamawaki is designing the characters. Akifumi Tada is composing the music. Mega Shinnosuke performs the anime's opening theme song "Gohan Tabeyo" (Let's Eat).

The anime will premiere on TV Asahi on October 3.

Tsukahara launched the manga in Futabasha's Manga Town magazine in December 2015, where it ran until the magazine ended publication in December 2023. The manga then moved to the Manga Crayon Shin-chan website. Futabasha published the manga's 12th compiled book volume in May 2024. The manga's title is an apparent reference to the popular long-running workplace documentary series Professional: Shigoto no Ryūgi (Professional: The Style of Work).

Yoshito Usui launched the original Crayon Shin-chan manga in Futabasha's Manga Action magazine in 1990. Usui passed away on September 11, 2009. The manga inspired a long-running franchise that includes a consistently highly-rated television anime adaptation that has been running weekly since 1992, a yearly anime film, games, merchandise, and more.

Usui's staff  launched the Shin Crayon Shin-chan manga in Futabasha's Monthly Manga Town magazine in August 2010. The manga moveed to the Manga Crayon Shin-chan website when Monthly Manga Town ended publication in December 2023.

Eiga Crayon Shin-chan Chō Karei! Shakunetsu no Kasukabe Dancers (Crayon Shin-chan the Movie: Super Magnificent! Scorching Kasukabe Dancers), the latest anime film in the Crayon Shin-chan series, opened on August 8.

Sources: Nohara Hiroshi Hirumeshi no Ryūgi anime's X/Twitter account and website, Comic Natalie