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'Kujima: Why Sing, When You Can Warble?' TV Anime Reveals April 9 Debut, Opening Theme in Video

The staff for Kujima: Why Sing, When You Can Warble?, the anime based on Akira Konno's Kujima Utaeba Ie Hororo manga, revealed the theme songs in a new promotional video on Friday. Galileo Galilei performs the opening theme song "Komorebi" (Sunlight Through the Trees), and Manami Kakudō performs the ending theme song "Hororo Shōryō" (Warble Ramble). The below video previews the opening theme.

The staff also revealed the show's April 9 debut. The show will debut on April 9 at 10:30 on AT-X, before airing later that evening on Tokyo MX. The series will also air on MBS and BS-TBS, and will stream on services like U0NEXT and Anime Hōdai.

Crunchyroll will stream the anime as it airs.

The anime will star:

• Yuria Kōzuki as Kujima
• Ayumu Murase as Arata Kouda
• Yōhei Azakami as Suguru Kouda
• Ryōko Shiraishi as Miyoshi Kouda
• Hirofumi Nojima as Masaomi Kouda
• Nene Hieda as Makoto Mitsuki

Noriyuki Nomata (episode director for Assassination Classroom, Carole & Tuesday, The Case Study of Vanitas) is directing the anime at Studio Hibari. Shinichiro Kimura (A Little Snow Fairy Sugar, Venus Versus Virus) is the series director. Yasunori Yamada (Venus Versus Virus, Motto To Love Ru) is overseeing the series scripts, Sakurako Mitsuhashi (animation director for Hula Fulla Dance, My Happy Marriage) is designing the characters, and Manami Kakudō is composing the music.

The "bird(?) home comedy" manga's story starts when first-year middle school student Arata Kouda meets a mysterious bird-looking creature named Kujima in autumn. Hungry and craving Japanese food, Kujima ends up staying with the Kouda family at their house, where the atmosphere is tense because of Akira's older brother who failed the college entrance exam. Kujima lives with the Kouda family until winter passes and warm spring arrives.

Konno launched the manga in Shogakukan's Monthly Shonen Sunday magazine in September 2021. The series ended in April 2024. Shogakukan published the manga's first compiled book volume in April 2022, and the fifth and final volume in May 2024.

The manga was nominated in the print category of the eighth "Next Manga Awards" (Tsugi ni Kuru Manga Taishō) in 2022. The manga was also included in the top 20 list of manga for male readers in the 2023 edition of Takarajimasha's Kono Manga ga Sugoi! (This Manga Is Amazing!) guidebook.

Sources: Kujima: Why Sing, When You Can Warble? anime's website, Comic Natalie